The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1866-01-03
ABOLITION QUALIFICATION

We presume that several dissertations
were delivered on tho internal structure
of the negro's woolly head, and spongy
shius, and the doctrine Of miscegena.
ton ezpounded in language disgusting I'd
man, satisfactory to devils and terrib! 10
the eyes Of God. But what have they to
rejoice Overy True, they have succeeded
nlltheir. PET project of e~mancipating about
four millions Of slaves who we're happy
as such and had sure sources of protec.
ton and a kindly care, but what is their
condition to.dayY Have they been made
happier and better? Ask the negroes Of
the South, who, like the moth that
courts the fame that kills it, or the Hin.
doc deyotecs crushed by the idol they
adore, rushed to the Federal flag in the
wake Of the victorious armies of Epan.
cipation, and there, starving, diseased and
helpless havc found liberty but to die
If the negroes, whose bones now liz
bleaching in the valleys Of the South,
could speak, what mutterings of curses
would be heaped upon their Abolition
murdeleTs, who enticed them into the
veryj VS. Of death
That uur readers may have a better
idea Of the corditi on Of the Black Re-.
publican idol, We subjOin the following
which we findsin the proceedings of the
Cleveland Freedmcn's Aid Commission,
in The Leadtr Of a recent date
''Wc givcan extract from an official let.
TEL sent tO'ihe freed mems Bureau, from d
Surgeon in Georgia, which speaks f,r its
self: " Efs IS
In Rome, Athens, Marietta, Milledge
vile, and such places, have not yet
thought best to open shospitals Yet ]
am Persuaded that Hlicre viii be grea
suffering during tho winter in thest
places. In Atlanta, for example, l know
from personal inspection that nultitudeI
Of the feeble, and The women and child
rem arc living either in open air or sucI
rude shelters Of brush and logs, and ole
Tin frame car roofs as they can construct
into houses to cover them. Exposed to
storms and cold, such u life induces
large amount Of sickness, and a high rat
of mortality, feel constrained to testify
to a large amount Of suffering as well il
The couGtry as in large cities.
The ultimate and permanent means o.
relief for these unfortunate people, will b,
found only in tlio sense Of humanity and
justice Of the people, prompting to The
Abandonment OF pre- JUDGES, ald to eff
cient, liberal measures for their relief ant
support
Also from another letter written by al
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other person from Atlanta, Georgia
al arrived here last "Wednesday. NJ,
heart is lull almost TO bursting at tho sigh
Of the freedmen Hero is a city in ruins
but rising like a phoenix from rs ashe;
with astonishing rapidity. Amid thes
ruins ofold buildings, in huts madc-O
the old tin from the roofs Of houses, uude
tents made Irom old sheets, bed.ticss 0
skirts Of old dresses, in old railroad cars
and last but not the most comfortable oil
the bare ground, exposed to every chang
Of the weather, is everywhere to be see
the coihndJand and refugees, '6eprice,
@eUey comfort @hb, sick, dyiSG aa'
dead. Ohrmy God, my eyes never rest
cd 90 such scenes of distress as they hav,
bohcld since my arrival here, | shall
write Genoral Howard on thu subject
Something must be done before it get
much, colder Or these people must die b.
thousands. Trr ,.,r
And yet, while thousands upon tnous
sGds Of these poor creatures are "depriy
ed Of every comfort of lille, sick, dying
and dead" the CAristian Abolitionis,S O
Ashland, male and female, hold thei
midnight Ieyelry, eat their turkey an,
quaff their wine, because the Emancipu
tion Proclamation had been issued, an,
the Constitution amended, by which III
negroes were brought into such a coudi
ton, the sigbtofvhich made the autho
Of the above exclaimj sob, my God, m.
eyes never rested on such scenes Of die
tress as they behold since my arriva
here ~ Would IL not have been bette
if thesG pretended philanthrOpists ha,
used tho money, they expended in thei
bacchaualian revelry, to anelioratc tn
suFerings of the negrOs
We venture the assertion that not on
of those who participated in this Aboli
ltion pow.wow wOnld contribute one cen
to arrest the fearful tide Of mortality
eausodbyo exposure and starvation, tina
is bringing thousands Of their acluacy
victims to premature graves. But sue
Is modern philanthropy. y.
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