Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1866-03-16

bureau, and not the bureau TO him. Emanci-
patton was sudden and violent and like all
sudden and violent changes in the condition of
masses of men, it was to be expected that it
would be attended by unpleasant accompani-
ments, by privatiOns and suferings. Would it
not have been better to have left this sudden
change to regulate itself naturally, than to ap-
ply an artificial remedy, which must, from ne
cessity, be only temporary, and which will Gre
ate elements of trouble that would not have ex-
listed without it,
1t is not without sadness that We contem-
plate the suferings that have befallen the ne
gro IN consequence Of jealous but mistaken
may we not say fanatical-kindness. The
Memphis Bulletin refers to some of these suf-
ferings. We give an extract from its article
on the subject, so as to introduce the facts it
states, which we do not wish to be understood
as adopting such expressions as may be tinged
with severity. The extract is as follows:
Negro graves are counted by the acre in and
around this city. When Liberty first gathered them
in its folds, they died too rapidly for grave-diggers
Encotined, they were borne from novels and hosp.
tails Like De Soto, their uncofined bodies found
resting places in the bosom of the Great River
There is no register Of births and deaths. Few are
born, and infants nearly all perish We are told
that twelve hundred blacks were frozen 10 death on
Presidents Island, while agents of civilization
were toiling TO promote their intelligence. The
thousands that were buried in single trench at
Helena should have some memorial to their benefac-
tors lifting its form Of spotless marble to the very
mid heavens.
I'VE should have their rights protected against
all aggressors by national power. Tell u.s. some
sane man who are these aggressorsl The Bureau
is deemed the benefactor of the black race. 1t has
paved wells in Columbus, Mississippi, with bones OF
negro infants. Negro women, in pursuit OF negro
soldiers abandon the helpless children and aged
parents to famine and death. If extinction OF the
race be the work Of charity and love- never was
scheme of benevolence so successful as that which
has been practiced toward the blacks for the past
three years. Thus far, every act OF nomi-
nal benehcence has been one of barbarity. The
black population of these States is million less
than il would have been without a war. Civilize,
educate clothe and feed the negro, and then talk
about his nvesture with all the rights of citizenship
But do not kill him with kindness. He has borne
enough for the present"
Senator DooLITTLE, in recent speech de-
livered at New. Haven, states upon the au-
thority of army officers, of high rank, and of
other persons of high character and reliable
information, that, during and since the war, one
million of Southern negroes have perished-
some fifty thousand, perhaps, in battle, or from
wounds, the remainder from disease, neglect
and privation. Mr.. DooLITTLE said" These
are the appalling facts, and yet they are true.
&" have no doubt that when we come to take
the census of 1870, two-ifths of the whole
' colored population will have persisted"
We have heard it remarked by many resi-
dents of different portions of this State, in
which the negro population was large before
the war, that their numbers have become
greatly reduced in the last few months. They
have disappeared like sora, and in the same
mysterious and unaccountable Manner
Whether they have died or removed does not
appear to be known. Except in the towns and
cities this diminution in the negro population
is everywhere perceptible.