The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1866-01-31
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4. We haze rarely if.eyer encountered a more
5capitat or cutting BiIrlesque5tll than the follow
SAG .sdoeaaaellt, gotten 1p hySs6e Washing
ION correspondent d the Cincinnati SCoannaer-
.CsaL supposed to- be the report Of erhad. Ste
yeas's :PFecoastr rac.ion1 COMMITTEE after
4ileIr return from tllejr roaosed visit to IN
sestigate the 70 ojafsy of The southern people (:
w asniSGgoN, Jan 1866.
Tot5s. Honorable 8etsata AID House Of Repre-
assptGtiEee: - -, r. = : ~ !
Your committee, appointed to visit the
States lately Ia rebeHion. and Investigate and
report upon their condition rs 10 lloya{ty and
fitness for readalisSion into the. Union, have
performed the sdaty assigned to them, and
8sg leave to make the following report ::2y u
NATURALLY, the first place visited by your.
committee VAS Richmond, Virginia, the eapi..
tai of the late Gonfsesefacy. Our coming lad
been beEaIded in the newspapers there, and
5sfe demonstrations at The railroad depot on
6eur arrival may be taken as, IN some degree,
indicative ef the popular sentiment in that
city found a large concourse Of citizens
.of African descent awaiting as, and as we DIS
;ailtbafked from the cars, they hailed US with,
sbouts.of welcome, mtngted With = q 9is he's way TO
theSpotts9ood House. Here's your busS for
sCoHtinentaf Here's yonrscab for any partsof
the city. BAGGAGE to the hotel, gents, etc.
It was gratelsI "a, the hearts Of loyal enssto
he thus welco4e Ia 50 la5eEyy TIC: bead
Quarters Of the rebellion, while at the same
Time ne began to feel conEiHced already that
the only truly loyal people Of the South we're
soffhe csleFed race. 8ye could notdecline the
talities so generally teadered us, and ac-
ToTdingiy we selected two carriages from the
large number placed at our disposal. We
were dFiRenSa a the Spottswood by our hospit-
;able friends, who ebargedas two dollars apiece
and half a dollar extra for baggage. After so
much kindness from the colored, race, we were
.pnpreparedfer 4he-haFsh. treatment which we
subsequently, received from the white oil
:garchs Of Richmond. The proprietor of the
<Spottswood gave US rooms in the fifth story,
back, ssRi7g to his clerk as we have been in
sformcd by a, faithful African who had BACKED
gour boots for quarter pair, that they were
4eaodg genoughgfor Yankee radicals. The same
spirit Of disloyal. hate was manifested to US in
she 9fining-foom, where, IN response TO- our
repeated call for Goldfish and pumpkin-pie, we
were served with nothing but. bacon and hot
cakes. We asked why this was done, and
were told By loyal waiter, to whom we had
instygi7en apostal half dollar,sthat Mr.. Spots
wood said be didn't keep a hotel for the ac-
soneodafion of Yankees, and, therefore, per-
sisteatIg excluded Goldfish and pumpkin pies
.frcn thesbiil of fare. Your committee do not
},Ieey1 it necessary to dwell upon this evidence
OF sgaouldering disIoyolty, porto compare 1t
with the hastily formed opinion ofGen. Grant
respecting southern sentiment. Our object
was 10 get beneath the surface Of things III
the South, TO and the true character Of the
snb-stratum. We. remained in Richmond a
few days to study the character of the people.
on all bands we found evidences ofdistinctop
on account of color, except in, a freedman S
colony, where the blacks received the whites
'iolna on an equal footing with themselves We
alone noticed a disioyal disposition to speak
ofStonowall JackssR and Gen. 5,eein term OF
praise and commenaasion, while Gen. But