Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-06-04
CDbIo Statesrran,
From the Plain Dealer. ........ ..
The South as IL Es-The Temper OF
the PeODIe-InIeresIin Facts.

The south as At hs-Ihe Hemper Oh
the PeOpIe-InIeresIing Facts.
On yesterday we transferred to our col
umns an editorial article from the CleUeIdnd
Herald, in which was narrated the testi-
mOny of gentleman OF this city. OF well
known Union feeling, who after lengthy
tour of the South, returns to Cleveland,
convinced OF the reasonableness, loyalty
and upright purposes of the great body of
the people of the late rebel States. AS
bearing upon the same important subject
we copy below an instructive extract from
the Cincinnati Commercials Washington
correspondent. Wedraw from these sour
ces rather than from Democratic journals,
that we may place before the public, testi-
mOny coming from Quarters which none
will have tho hardihoOd to charge with n
desire to pander to Southern interests. The
Commercials correspondent says:
A gentleman connected with the Post
office Department has recently returned to
Washington from an extended tour through
the Southern States. He is an intelligent,
educated and observing man, with political
opinions decidedly Republican, yet still ca
pabe of taking fair and impartial view OF
passing events, and of looking at surround
ing circumstances without the use of party
spectacles. Within the last six months he
has visited nearly every town and village
In the Southwest, and has taken especial
pains to get correct photograph OF the
South as il is. His opinions are worth far
more than those of any little whipper snap
per dandy belonging to General u0ward's
staff, sent to hold a migratory Court of
Oyer and Terminer on the affairs of the
South, with the understanding before and
akin to that with which the upstart litera-
ry critic sits down to desCant upon the
merits of bOOk--that in order TO discharge
his duty he must find fault. ..
The gentleman to whom | refer, and
with whom have had long conversation
for the purpose Of learning his views on.
the condition of the South, utterly repudi-
ates all stories about the rebelliOus spirit of
the Southern people which are waited
North on the wings of the Freedmen's Blu
reau. He says that in all his travels he
failed to meet a single man who did not
accept the situatiOn," in the true sense
and meaning of that phrase, and that the
United States Government has no tr7ter friends
than the men lohO q year and q haU dgO COM
posed the rebel armies. All talk of Southern
cruelty to the negroes is talsehOod. The
Southern people express a Willingness to
treat the blacks honorably and fairly, and
the farther removed from the Freedmens
Bureau offices the better cOntented and bet
ter off the blacks are. Every trouble in
regard to labor or wages is traceabe to the
Freedmen's Bureau and its agents, many
of whom have embarked in a species of
NEGRO jumping" similar to the bounty
jumping carried on during the war. They
are kidnapping the labOrers of one planter
and selling them at II premium of few
dollars to another, from whom IN turn they
entice them, to make another transfer.
G,P Eranlpnun's
my informant, land you'll hear OF no more
hardships among the blacks" And we all
know this to be true. He relates an iuCi-
dent which will do to tell in Illustrating
the "rebelliOus spirit of the Southern peo-
pie" While in New Orleans he made the
acquaintance of an eX-contederate officer,
in whose company he soon after entered
one of the fashionable restaurants of the
Crescent City. Observing a card with the
words "0ur own Southern Bitters" con-
spicuously printed on it, and alluding to it.
he said to his new made friend, why do
you try in this way, even in such place as
this, to perpetuate the memory of the war;"
The eX-rebel smiled, and replied: "Real-
ly, don't like such things, and though that
is but trile, | would not have even it
displayed so, if could have my own way.
But that is the device of a New England
and labeled in New England, and the keep
er OF this saloon is Yankee, who came
here since the war, and is about the only
man in New Orleans who is not Subjugated,
as YOU people call II, and who says he can't
be subiugated. IL we took his advice,
we would raise another rebellion t0-mOr-
row." ..
Passing by book store. some time after,
with the same officer, my informant saw n
large picture of Stonewall jackson, draped
in mourning, with some heroic motto print
ed underneath 1t, and he remarked,
"There's more of it. These are the things
they magnify to your disadvantage in the
North" ... #.
'Well," said the eX-rebel, "that's another
of your own sort. The owner ofthat store
is Yankee who never trod the sod of the
South until the war was over. He's what
you'd call the worst kind of traitor now.
Such men come here, and they think by ap
pealing TO the passions created by the war,
they can drive a big business. They suc-
ceed very often, because our people are cas-
lily excited by such things, for they cannot
forget Stonewall Jackson, even when he is
put before them in the form of a Yankee
trick like this" .l'i . .r. . .....
Other illustrations to the same point,
might be given, all tending TO show, first.
that the feeling of the Southern people to-
ward the Government, is grossly misrepre-
sented by parties interested in the post
pOncmeDt OF the day of restoration /; and,
second, that Northern men are, to great
extent, responsible for whatever of bitter
ness toward the Government exists In the
South. r'. r ..a .. u.. ..