The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1866-08-22

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In one State its officers exercise judicial
powers. in an adjoining State all cases are
referred to the civil au critics; while in
third State the bureau officers collect the
cases and turn them over TO the military
provost courts to dispose Of. In some de-
partments the officers OF the bureau have
attempted TO regulate the rate of wages ;
one form Of contract between employer and
employed is prescribed in one State, while
in another different form is adopted, In
Louisiana the expenses OF the freedmen's
schools have been wholly paid by the 60
yernment; 10 the other States the sch0Ols
are partially self supporting, and in Texas
they are entirely so. In some localities
the bureau officers interfere arbitrarily be-
tween the planters and the freedmen in ia
vor Of the freedmen /; in other localities the
bureau is used as meaas of coercing the
freedmen in faver OF the planter. The ex-
pendilure of the bureau varies as much as
its mode ot administration. In one Stale
the expenses are over three hundred thous-
and dollars year in another State, with
an equal population, the expenses are not
more than fifty thousand. In some States
the expenses have been met by taxes levied
on and collected from the people in other
States the cost is entirely borne by the
United States Treasury.
The official report Of Colonel Reno,
United States army Provost Marshal Ge.
neral Of the Bureau Of Louisiana, shows a
deficit Of upwards Of Iseven thousand dol
lars in the accounts Of the officers who were
engaged in the collecting of taxes in New
Orleans. which deficit Col. Reno says be is
unable to explain in consequence Of the
loose manner in which the books were kept.
We are Of the opinion that az the close
oil the war. and for some time after the
cessation Of hostilities, the Freedmen's Bu-
rcau did good. The people Of the South,
having at first no faith in the negroes work
ing under free labor system, were desi-
rous Of getting rid Of them, and during the
summer OF 8e5 judicious bureau and mill
tary officers did much toward restoring or
der andharuony, and inducing the people Of
the Ssnth 10 resume the cultivation ut their
plantations by employing the freedmen.
bCtutc tut CIOoG w lOOJ NHtIS Wns au Cuttlc
revolution IN the sentiments Of the people
II the South with regard to negro labor. A
feeling Of kindness sprang up towards the
freedman, resulting, perhaps, mainly from
the conviction, that his labor was desirable,
profitable and the nnly labor to be had.
The necessity Of the bureau then ceased.
Since then, while il has been beneficial in
some localities, il has been productive. in
the aggregate, Of more harm than good. II
has occasioned and will perpetuate discord
as long as il exists. though administered
by the purest and isesl men Of the nation.
The freedmen regard its presence as eyi.
dence that they would be unsafe withou,
il. and the white people consider il an i'm.
putation upon the sficial action OF all their
courts aud magistrates. as well as upon the
priva.e conduct ot their citizens. Botl
races are thus made suspicious aud bitter
by an agency which. in the present reorga.
nlzed condition o. civil government and 50
cie;y ia the Southern States, is powerles.
10 advance the interests oi either.
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