The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-07-14
The Poor Freedmen.


Wesbegin to believe that the stories
recently in circulation about carrying
off the freedmen to Cuba, or some
other slave mart, are true. The At
lanta Mtelligencsa, of the 7th instant,
says:
An enterprising genius has been in
this city for some tine past, engaged
in collecting up negro boys between
the ages of fifteen and twenty years.
To number of these unsuspecting
youths he has represented himself as
n son of the late President Lincoln,
and pictures to them in glowing
terms the splendors Of home he
will take them to in Cuba, which
place he gives them to understand is
somewhere in the North. He agrees
to pay 800 per month, and defray all
travelling expenses. On reaching
''Cuba, they will receive oil sorts Of
good clothes and plenty to eat, and
light labor only to be required Of
them. How successful this swindling
scamp has been, we have no know
ledge, and of his real purposes we are
equally ignorant.
The Inteuigence,' further observes,
that every Western train takes away
large or small squads of negroes,
many of whom have no knowledge of
their destination. If these state
ments be true, and We have no reason
to doubt them, VIC are sorry that the
poor, con6ding, but ignorant, freed
mon, especially the half-grown youth
among them, are Seduced from their
homes, an;! from the protection Of,
and association with, those among
whom they were born and raised.
Here certainly is work for the Bu-
reau, and its officers would be rccre-
ant to their appointed duties if they
DO not put stop to this iniquitous
practice.
The freedmen may rest assured
that none of their old friends, or any
true Southerncr, would be engaged
! IN this nefarious traffic, for it is no.
I thing more or less than trafficking on
their labor, present and prospective,
for the certainty Of gain, for this
alone could induce so-called white
men to engage in such business.
The inbred honesty and early associ-
alton with the race would forbid, and
has ever prevented, the true South
erner to become Il mere negro-trader
for the Rsake OF profit or gain. He
never was, nor never will be one, and
there is not an intelligent freedman
throughout the South but who knows
this to be fact. We much fear that
these people, in the morning of their
freedom, will find too many of their
number made victims of their pro-
! fcssed friends from other sections,
but who are i'll reality unprincipled
! advcnturcrS and heartless spectators.
Let them beware of these wolves in
sleeps clothing.
7 WAS Dr.. CRAvES's Book SpEcU-
LArIoN?-It may have been, although
we doubt the authority which leads
us to suppose SO. 1t comes from the
Washington correspondent of the
New York Times. He says:
/ "A letter to gentleman in this
city, from a partner of Captain Tit
! low, noted as the officer who ironed
! Jefferson Davis, states that Captain
Titlow says that DR.. Craven's version
OF the language used by Jefferson
/ Davis, while he was being ironed, is
far from being exact and truthful.
Captain Titlow visited the interior of
Fortress Monroe, one day last week,
and, in passing Davis quarters, he
Davis caught sight of the Captain,
called to him, invited him in and re-
ceived him most cordially. He at
once expressed himself as being