The New York herald., 1866-05-08
They Prove to be Spectators Instead Of
PhilanthrOpists.
Official Positions Made 0ubservient
to Private Interests.
The Agents Running Large Plantations and
Forcing the Negroes to Work Upon
Them a. Q Punishment for
Imaginary Offences.
Gc fc


wAsHseroS, May 7. 1904.
Some rich developments coming To light concern.
ing the operations OF the Frcedmcn's Bureau In tho
southern States The record OF its occ Is likely to be
one long black list OF pcrvcrsion Of official position for
tho subserviency Of private ends Nearly every
engaged in private specuiations, and the rumon
reaching US from all parts concerning their
official malfensancc we'll authenticated
as to no longer be a subject OF doubt The principal
officers OF the Freedmens Bureau in the State OF North
Carolina for instance known to be engaged cult
ng plantations in other occupation tending
To their private cmoumcnt Dozens OF instances could be
cited but a few will suffice. Col Whttlesey the Assist
ant Commissioner controlling the State is running Of
the finest cotton plantations In North Carolina In con
nection with the Rev Horace james. fornely Mas-a-
chusetts army chaplain This farm Is situated In PIT
county The following lite circumstance will show how
Official position pros,i,uted TO private gain A datky
discovered stealing from James store He was
brousht before James who acts a. an agent Of the
Bureau without pay In the county in which he plant
ing was convicted and sentenced to dig dtches
James farm. while undergoing the sentence he
aged escape aud made for James called to
him to surrender and AZ he did not do he dred at
him The man dropped out Of his aud
has mover been since The referred
Colonel whitesey, James partner and the Assistant
Commissioner Of the State, who replied that, as the
affair took place At night and the BODY OF tho
man had never been found, II not certain the
shot took edect. Therefore further action
called for Captain =. A. seeoy superintendent OF
the Eastern District IL cultivating farm Ia
Wayne county. Captain Rosecranz, Conmisaary OF
subsistence at Nrwbern; IL partner in arm In which
a Mr. Brooks of Mass 10 n leading member, and VII oh
nrm IL running least half dozen plantations In the
South II has also been found that comm isaiy
stores have removed from the ommissary build
ings before tho usual hours Of business IN
instance, four barrels Of pork wore aken IN this
way and conveyed to grocery store In the town.
brother Of Captain Ro-encranz who acted as commits
ary sergeant stated when detection unavoidable,
that the pork had been carried 10 the grocery
by mistake, and that the mistake had been
inmedis isteiy rcctined. The grocer, being
questioned, stated he had the four barrels of
pork his Possession and that Captain RoscncraDx bad
been him that day 10 ask III return He also stated
that Captain Ro-cncraue had exchanged nj least two
barrels d white sugar for two of brown for which he
raid the captain sir cents pound In exchange The
of clothing tho North for grautous dr button
has been sold privately and Mt auction Chaplain CLAWS
Bureau superintendent for this district In running Two
plantations his account and for the Bureau.
AZ Wilmington Major Mann and Major WIckersham, per
officers o. the Bureau both Interested Ia co
plantations Major wiekerbam by his contract, IL
bound that the freedmen work they do not the
are pinced In the chain gaags The effect OF
the To enable the agents of the Bureau To
the best labor In the state for their private Interests
The singular feature Of th. whole IL that the worst
Of msfcasnce found s tho doors or New Eng
land ph abthropiss Several arrests are reported Ia
have been made and others expected 10 follow.