The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1866-01-04
Carl Schurz on the Condition of the South.

Carl SChurZ on the Condition of the South.
The report of Carl Schurz on the condition
of the South is published. 1t is quite lengthy
filling fifteen closely printed columns of the
Tribune
Gen. Schruz says at the time he went
South he found the people recovering from
the peculiar state of mind in which the
surrender of Lee had plunged them. He
says the public mind was SO respondent,
that if re-admisson at some future time, I'M
der whatever conditions, had been promised,
it would have been looked upon as favor.
The most tncompromising rebels proposed
at first leaving the country. The masses
remained in state of fearful expectancy
lie says he now finds four classes as fol
lows:
LIST. Those who, although having yielded
submissively to the National Government
only when obliged to do so, have clear
perception of the irreversible changes which
have been produced by the war, and hon.
estly endeavor to accommodate themselves
to the new order of things.
I'd. Those whose principal object is to
have the States, without delay, restored to
the Union and the people of the States to
absolute control of home concerns. They
are ready, in order to obtain that object, fol-
any ostensible concession that will not pre-
vent them from arranging things to sui
their tastes as soon as that object is attain
| ed se"
3d. Incorrigibles, who still indulge il
swagger which was so customary before
L., Il he onI ctin Co.
time when the so-called Southern Confeder
acy will achieve its independence. Thi
class consists mostly of young men, ant
the loiterers Of the town and idle RS of tn
country, ..Ie.
4th The multitude of persons who hav'
no definite idea about the circumstances
under which they live, and about the coure
they have to follow, whose intellects ar
weak, but whose prejudices and impulse
are strong, and who are apt to be carried
along by those who know how to appeal t.
the latter.
All these classes, he says, are agreed tina
further resistance to the power of the Ma
tional Government is useless, and submis
sion to its authority matter of necessity
All movements in favor of separation from
the Union have therefore been PRACTICAL,
abandoned, and resistance to our military
/ forces on that score has ceased.
The General thinks that the loyalty pro
d uced by the irresistible pressure of force
decidedly of negative character. III
gives proofs in letters of Federal General
and others. of outrages committed by tn
late rebels and of their hostile attitude
the troops are withdrawn. He introduces
testimony from officers of the Freedmen
Bureau, and dwells at considerable lengt
upon statements of the negroes and the sen
timents Of the whites towards them. II
thinks justice can only be secured by ex
tending the franchise. In the course of hi
remarks, he says the slaves are emancipate
in point of form, but free labor has not VI
been put in the place of slavery in point {
fact, and now, in the midst of the critics
period of transition the power hich origin
ated the revolution is expected to turn owe
its whole future development to anothe
power which, from the beginning, was hos
tile to its spirit, leaving the class into who's
favor it was made, completely without tn
power to protect itself, and take an intiuel
tial part Of that development. moe
The history of the world will be searche
in vain for proceeding SINH lar to THU
which did not lead either to rapid and viz
lent reaction OF to most serious trouble an
civil disorder 1t is believed it will prov
far more dangerous for the integrity of 10y
all elfgovernnent if national control in til
South be discontinued, while by discontinu
ing it too soon it may be rendered necessar
again in future, when by continuing it bu
a limited time, for all such future the neces
lsity may be obviated.
He advocates the encouragement of edu
cation among che freedmen, and in his con
clusion makes the following remarks: ''Fh
loyalty of the masses and most of the leae
ers OF the Southern people consists in sui
mission to a necessity. Emancipation
the slaves is submitted to only in 80 far 3
chattel slavery in form could not be kept o.
but although the freedman is no longer con
sidered the property of an individual maste
he is considered the slave of society, and a
independent State legislation will show
tendency to make him such. The practice
attempts on the part of the Southern peopl
to deprive the negro of his rights as freed
man, may result in bloody collision, an
will certainly plunge Southern society int
restless fluctuations and an anarchial situs
ton. The problem will be very much faci
itated by enabling all loyal and free labc
elements OF the South to exercise health
influence upon Legislation. 1t will hardl
be possible to secure freedmen against a
Oppressive class legislation and private per
secution unless he be endowed with Gel
tain measure of politicaI power"