Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1866-04-20
A Yaluable Freedmen,s Bureau Man.

Among the officers of the Freedmen's Bureau
who are enlightening the people of the North
as to the conduct and sentiments of the people
Of the South, is the Assistant Superintend ent at
Mobile, one Captain POILLON. He writes
letters to the St. Louis DenOcrGt-Radical-
abounding equally in panegyrics of the ne
groes and defamation of the whites. He Is
tragically eloquent when he speaks of ''the
dark horrors Of slavery" "the lash, the driver,
the hound, the long, long years of patient SER
vitude, unceasing toll which brought no re-
compense, the enduring sorrow of an age,
traught with all the horrors the curse of
slavery can inhict." He cannot too much adj
mire and applaud the "docile sons of toll, :" the
innocent victims of the white mans Oppres-
sion,' who have lately emerged from ga life of
abiect submission" into one of "freedom, the
heaven-sent jubilee for which all had prayed
for which none dared hope" For the whites
generally, however, he has a very terrible re-
cord to make of their atrocities and their enor-
raous villainies. OF course, all the wickedness
perpetrated in the South cannot have come uu-
der his personal observation, but in his letter
he gives "a few Of the horrors, whose damning
evidence" he affirms he has seen, as they have
been perpetrated by the revengeful whites
upon Nhe submissive and accomplishing blacks.
| We have not space for these. Getting tired of
elumeramg atrocities, Captain POMLON breaks
on With The following stunning declaration -
g Daily saSidces add fresh victims to the
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81 and cowardt revenge"
1t becomes natter of interest to know who
this excellent PoyLoN is, who, in the cause of
patriotism and humanity, consents to have his
sensibilities daily ad hourly tortured by re-
naming in the SOut Luckily the St. Louis
Republican affords information on the subject.
In the first place, early'u the war, he espoused
the Southern side, but nding the prospect of
anything profitable to tmself decidedly I'M
promising, he changed owe to the other side,
q ''with no better motive tha4 purposes of dis
d honorable gain" In the sSond place this
V worthy POILLON, Assistant Soerintendeut of
2 'nat model Bureau, which he sys is .sthe sole
e protection of the poor freedman, was exposed
: IN 1864 by Brigadier General ottbe Federal
Arm IN,
IS army IN a communication then hbrsbed in
the RePUb'ieaR, as follows:
4" refer to The case of Captain VIM Mn
company = !, OSin regiment colonel volunlrO 9
e aceOTaH6 20 A'S o'cH admission was forSrs. ne,
" Of years engaged IN the Afric an slave
: mapping and transporting ne1,oes s-1 au in kid
e the Island of Cuba On one Occasion U"i iea to
+" board his vessel Of which he was CantainNg on
a seven hundred negroes, all manacled ana % 2out
~ below decks, as he was approaching ~ ooouped
IN Cuba, he was chased by British manof w. Of
in in order to effect his escape, was compelled 10
vessel ashore and abandon her. which he did pas
D. abandoning her, however he scuttled and srn S
D. le'ta az the negroes on board thus Wiping ON,
70 N case OF ms capture all evidence of the cba7at
y OF his vessel ~ N"Niac'e
y VINO can doubt that this estimable PoIILoN
y SS most suitable person to have charge of eth
= poor freedmen" and precisely the individual
70 testify touching the behavior and sentiment
10 Oh tns Southern people. 1t is to be feared