The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1866-03-22

in the South This will be simple loan.
and by judicious handling will do much
to promote education. Again, school
privileges are secured in districts and on
plantations by specific obligations in con-
Eectlon with the contracts which the
planters are every day making; and every
moneyed association which seeks encour-
agement from the Freedmen's Bureau,
proposing to make settlements, will be
required to carry school privileges along
with them
Possibly, by these means and others
that may be adopted, the States may be
stirred up and stimulated to take the work
out of the hands Of the General Govern
ment, and do it better themselves, by
proper system of taxation on the products
of their own labor.
The subject of the poor who are or may
be dependent upon the Government for
support, has already been referred to-
Considering the poverty of the former
masters, and the extreme devastation in
| cident to the numerous fields of operation
of the armies throughout the Southern
country, it would not be wonderful if
cry of distress and want should reach your
ears. ] have seen thousands of white
people just as poor and miserable as they
could well be, and now often wonder how
they are able to get enough to sustain life.
Looking at these masses, and at the
great numbers Of INDECENT freedmen, old
| men and women, and helpless children, in
every Southern State, [ have not wondered
that the old STAKEHOLDER should pour into
my ear the glowing accounts of the bles-
sedEess of slavery in its prosperous aud
patriarchal days, and that he should heap
curses on that freedom which he believes
| to be the occasion of so much suffering.
But you and | know that the real cause
Of The desoation. destitution, poverty,
helplessness, and suffering is 1ar, brought
on and continued in the interest of and
by the love Of slavery. | present you
this picture to urge upon you kindness,
sympathy, aud liberality; yes, magnanim-
ity toward the whole South, without dis
tinction of race or color. [ have not
forgotten the three hundred thousand cf
our brethren who arc buried beneath the
Southern soil. [ have not forgotten the
scene, So vividly described to me, where
whole division lifted up the voice of
waling on meeting our poor, naked,
starved prisoners from Andersonvillc. |
still vividly recall the tall form of Abra-
ham Lincoln, and know that he was slain
by traitor. Not day passes but that
there is some affecting reminder of the
crimes of those who aimed at the heart of
the Republic; but | say slavery, that foul
iend which, during the past, gave US no
rest-slavery has done all this, and thank
God slavery has received its death blow,
md ,oroolo,,noI IN,
America, but throughout the world. Iu
view of this we may seek courage and
strength from on High, so as to lay aside
all malice, all purpose of revenge, and put
on broad, living charity, no less than
love to God aud love to His children.
The measures proposed for the poor are
that Congress may give the ability to rent
farms for relief in the different counties
or parishes of each State, and also to set
apart for settlements certain tracts of the
public domain, and, In connection, furnish
proper means of transportation and supply.
Just as soon as a State shall be re. organ
lied and able to assume their burden of
supporting the poor, it will, doubtless, be
required to do SO.
In many districts of the South, it is
perfectly evident that that foul doctrine
that "tho negro has no rights that the
white man is bound to respect is still in
vogue. [ could give you a column OF
wrongs sought 20 be perpetrated in many
Southern States, such as
No negro shall own real estate.
No negro shall rent real estate.
No negro shall own or rent city prop
erty.
No negro shall bear arms
Negroes shall not assemble together by
themselves; they shall not establish
schools; they shall not have suits and
give testimony in courts of law, or, in
case allowed TO do SO, it shall be regarded
as negro testimony; they shall be obliged
by force to enter into articles of agree
mept. The white man who abuses them
shall go unpublished they shall be whip
pedf for disobedience and other sins They
have Ia some instances attempted to sell
them within and without the country.
L still hope that these wrongs viii all
be righted, and full justice secured to the
freedmen by our Government that it will
do right, and mete out equal justice to all
our people, as nearly as men can do it,
My hope is streng thened by a solemn
belief that the finger of Divine Providence
is guiding us through our moral aud so.
cial revolution, and that His purposes
concerning us are plainly discernible in
the remarkable and rapid progress We
have already made.
nsa- Rufus Lord, broker in New
York city, was robbed few days since