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struction Committee. He received it per letter
from lady of St Louis, to whom lie desires us to
return his sincere thanks Ed. Mobile Tribune.l
Y 4 ihs gnsaas.l
ti0n intend " y said to visit the Southern States,
I'd toinTBstigate their condition, ana report whether
they are fit for admission into full communion in
the ssterhood Of Union. Az most Of the gentle- |
men composing the committee have already made |
up their minds on the subject, don't See the use
Of the contemplated tour especially as the report
has been agreed upon AS the document will be
looked for with considerable interest," have pro-
cured copy Of it, for the publication Of which
trust will not bc accused OF breacbl of good
faith. Here 1t Ia: u, ~
I, .,.l i, wAaulseroT january 1885
Your committee, appointed to visit the States
lately In rebellion, and aud report Upon
the condition as 70 loyalty and fitness for readmis
ssigned to them, and beg leave to make the fol-
s Naturally, the first place visited BY your com
mittee was Richmond Va, the capital Of the ate|
the newspapers there and the demonstration at
the railroad depot on cur arrival may be taken as
in some degree Indicative Of popular sentiment in
that city. We found large concourse Of citi-
zens Of African descent awaiting us, and as we
disembarked from the cars, they hailed US with
shouts Of welcome, mingled with This way to 4
the Spottswood House, Here's yer buss for the
Continental Here's yer cab ior any part G Of the
grateful to the hearts of loyal mento be thus vel
coined in city 80 lately the headquarters of re.
bellion, while at the same time began to feel
convinced already that the only truly loyal people
of the South, were OF the colored race.
We could not decline the hospitalities go gene.
rously rendered us, and accordingly we selected
two carriages from the large number placed at
by our hospitable friends, who charged us two
dollars apiece and half dollar extra tor baggage
After so much kindness from the colored race, we
were unprepared for the harsh treatment we sub
sequehty received from the white oiigarchs Of
Richmond. The proprietors Of the Spottswood
gave US rooms In the fifth story, back, saying to
their clerk, as we have been informed by faithful
African who blackcd our boots for q quarter a
pair, that they were good enough for Yankee
radicals. The same spirit Of disloyatydvas mani
Tested to us In the dining ROOM where ;inresponse
to our repeated call for Goldfish and pumpkin pie,
we were served with nothing but bacon and hot
cakes. We asked why this vas done, and were
told by loyal waiter, to whom we had just given
posfai SO cents, that Mr.. Spottswood said he
didn't keep d hotel for the accommodation Of
Yankees, and therefore persistently excluded cod
fish and pumpkin pies from the bid Of fare.
Your committee do not deem II necessary to
dwell upon thisevidenee of smou dering disoyaiity,
nor to compare II with the hastily formed opinion
Of General Grant respecting Southern sentiment.
Our object was to get below the surface of things
i'm the South, to find the true character OF the
social sub-stratum. We remained in Richmond q
few days to study the character OF the people,
account Of color except III Ii freedinan's colony.
where the Blacks received the whites on an equal
footing with, themselves. We also noticed a dis
loyal disposition to speak of stonewali Jackson
and General Lee in terms Of praise and commenda
tioiA, while General Butlers name was only men
toned tn c0ntemptnous connection with silver
spoons, and occasionally little platedWare, and
he seemed to be better known as the Bottle imp
of Bermnda Hundreds than in any ott ef way.
"Our next visit was to Atlanta, Georgia. Here
we had a long consultation with a Treasury agent,
who had had ample means OF Information on the
subject Of Georgia loyalty He gives II as his
opinion that to admit the Southern States to rep
resentation at this time. wonld be highly injudi-
cions. He did not believe there was a white ma
tive Of the place loyal enough 10 take his place,
and asserted that TO remove him and Others slni-
laTly situated, would be not only dangerous to the
welfare of the country, but would be also the
height Of ingratitude to men who had risked char
acter and reputation for the patriotic cause Of cot
ton and ten or twelve Thousand dollars a year.
Your committee concurred entirely in his
epinions
expressions Of sentiment which so to show how
far Gen. Grant is mistaken in what he says in his
late report On one occasion especially we heard
what convinced that the lava oil secession still
burned in the Southern bosom. The case was that
of a young gentleman from Massachusetts,, of poor
but honest parents, who had come TO the South in
the capacity of freedman's school teacher He
had casually made the acquaintance of a Southern
3 lady OF two score and ten, whose husband had
fallen under the rebel flag leaving her widow OF
handsome estate. The young gentleman, desrous
OF matrimony and plantations, pressed his suit,
and was progressing, as he thought, most favor
ably, when one evening the widow told him at a
tea party, in the presence oi large number l T. o.
marry Yankee The patriot school teacher no
longer plies the rod of chastiseuent over refrac-
tory freedmen. The star of his hope has gone
down, and he has gone back to Boston wreck OF
Your committee next went to Montgomery,
Alabama, where, as at Richmond the colored
: citizens focked to meet us, and We'd with each
other; for the carrying OF cur baggage. we paid
them fifty cents carpet sack from the depot, and
tfeywere enthusiastic in their demonstrations o
loyalty in receiving the currency from u.s. In this
CITY evidences of disioyalty met US on every hand
Vermont missionary had been insulted few
days before our arrival for attempting to introduce
John Browns Body and Well hang jeff Davis
on q sour apple tree as Sabbath school hymns
"a hop had just taken place at the leading hotel
to which whites were only invited, and to which
the freedmen were excluded on account of color
& The consequence was an indignation meeting o
the freedmen, at which equal rights were de
unanded. repetition of balls and hops exclu
siyey white in their cha aeter will le to Jataic
insurrections and Haytien rebeons magniied 8
thousand times in their dreadful results
# stAt Monig igomery, as at Atlanta we met a Treas
nary Agent who was opposed TO immediate reunion
and WARMLY in favor of a territorial condition TO
the Southern States. He mentioned incidental
that he had son-in-law in New Hampshire VIII
h would make an excellent Provisional Governor
and a cousin who would do fora territorial dele
gate to Congress. Above all things he hoped Con
gress would not listen to the hypocrtical cries 9
Alabama loyalty. He assured us that there wa
no loyalty in the State except in his Office, an
said it would be base injustice to supersede hiI
till he had finished the making OF q hundre
thousand dollars:
1--WE next proceeded to Charleston, s.. ca Her
& we had a long interview with a Northern gentle
man whom we knew to be in every way reliable
He had respondedto his country's call in the earl
days Of the war, with sutler wagon full (
Yankee notions, and had been unyarying in his d'
yation ITO the cause eyer since. except when Gei
Grant had ordered suffers to the rear. Since u
cessation Of armed hostility he had been South
see what could be done in the way Of buyln
Southern lands. He had found the people
South Carolina so rebellious theart as to refus
toseA their5p plantation for twenty cents an acre
Federal currency. He convinced us That n
armed force ought to be kept in Charleston Fl
many years to come, and that he ought to be ~
n pointed sutler, as he had much experience in u
business. He found in this liot-bed of secessit
and cradle of rebellion decided preference Fl
crny over blue, which extended itself even to II
ladies' petticoats, many Of which your committs
carefully examined. It isp proper to state that Il
articles thus scrntiniGed were hanging on a line
iry and had 10 ladies ia them. "A i
stYour committee next visited Savannah, whe
S thew found disloyalty manifested itself urnstak
blypn all Sides We met an agent of the Free
mems Bureau, who gave it as llis opnioil that Il
var was Only half over, and that, ullessthe powe
Of the bureau were enlarged 80 as to give hi