New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-01-09
4 MODEL REPORT.

port of Mr.. Carl Shurs, late aGeneral in the
States service as cable, calm, dspassionate anu
logical.n This gentleman was sent 70 the sousn
hsoon after the close of the war to nyesugate the
condition of the Southern States, and especlaily,
We believe the condition of that anomalous class OF
people called freedmen He received bis official
instructions from the government at Washington,
! hnt fle instructions on which he seems to have
acted were, doubtless, Issued by the faction of
which Senator Sumner and Representative Stevens
| are the leaders and Congressional Representa-
tiyes. IT was necessary for the purposes of that
faction to prove, if possible, that the world had
all along been mistaken as to the respective
characteristics of the two races inhabiting ths
Southern States to show that the whites are an
ignorant, bloodthirsty, cowardly, vindictlve,
treacherous set of wretches, deserving OF repres-
sion, MOTTO say determination and that the
are brave, intelligent, magnanimous, and especl-
ally aloyaI'' race eminently worthy OF elevation
to the position of a governing class. In other
words. the great necessity was to prove that
the negro is simply white man with an accident
ally black skin and that the white is sort of
accidental Caucasian with an essentially black
| heart 1t was to be shown also that the Southern
peopls meaning the Southern whites, are still en-
gagged Id impossible conspiracies against the Union,
and uncomfortable projects to revive and reestab
Ilish the Institution of slavery that the ignorant
barbarous. yindictiye Anglo o-saxons Of the South
are donineering in q highly reprehensible and
sanaunarv manner over tbe intelligent and cult
yated Ethiopiaus. thereby sadly interfering with
that desirable alliance between the radicals and
the negroes, on which the pepetuaion of radical
power is supposed to depend.
Nohodv oonld have discharged this difficult duty
Win more zeal and ability than Mr.. Carl Shurz.
II tha ca,m;est and most dispassionate manner he
demonstrates that the southerners are unshriven,
| nnrerontant 1vratcbas Of whom it were the basest
sort e t,afterv - saw that they are villains and
4 II yerv abe style he proves that the negroes are
inst tba nean;e IL convert into radical safragans
/ and ofice-holders.
The snnarnal foly Of Sumner and the transcen-
5ent absurdty Of stevens are admirable enough
Y, thair ,vavh,,t there is something SURPRISINGLY
an,az;nr in Mr. Carl Shurz's ability TO prove what
i contrary to reason and to demonstrate what has
~ existenee. III mas been said that he must have
ren,artaby keen optics who secs what is not to
lie scent But Mr.. Carl shnrz exceeds even that
5eeree Of visual aouuaeu. He sees not only what
Il not to be seen--but what never was seen, and,
/ III the pature Of things, never can be seen. 10
nrove that black il white, has from very remote
hnen considered a conclusive test OF logical
ana iialeetical skill. We do not Know that any
| one ever succeeded in the attempt until Mr.. Carl
sburz produced that extraordinary report in which
se shows 10 conclusiyely that negroes are, in re-
alify white men
But it is not only in power OF reasoning that
this calm and dspassionate' gentleman exhibits
his ability In Yigor Of imagination and exuber-
Ianec Of fancy he excels even Baron Munchausen
The romances aud poems Of Anne Radcliffe and
Jonna Baily were tame and spiritless in compari-
son with the metchess productions of this incom-
parable gentleman. There is something in his pic
/ lures thatreminds US of Murillo. He fairly luxu-
riates in death and reyels in murder. Until we
read his report we never conceived the amount of
IyiIlainy BY which We were surrounded. We did,
indeed, beginto have serious misgvings when we
read the account given by the Chicago. gentleman
I of Ike hundred and forty-nine negro Gorpses, all
with their troats slit, and their ears shorn which
/ were counted floating quietly down the Alabama
riyer; but we now learn from Mr.. Carl shurz that
the existence of the freedmaunthe uthisaperpe.
tua flight from blazing fagotand an upifted knife.