The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-01-02

NEGROES ON THE RAMPAGE-Ye sterday al
ternoon some idle and trifing negroes, who
were not respectable enough to behave them
selves, and join i'll the ceremonies OF the Gay
with their sensible brethren, assaulted cou-
pie Of white men on Church street. In the
row one of the negroes got cut lie started off,
singing out murder for dear life. This raised
a crowd of rabble darkies who pursued the
white men across the old fields towards upper
Union street. The white men being pressed,
ran through W. Stephens yard, and escaped
The disappointed crowd insisted that he was
secreted in Mr.. Stephens house he assured
them it was not so. The crowd at once COM
menced stoning tbs house, breaking in all the
| basement windows, At this juncture, Mr.. 3 $
sent down for the guard, and told the crowd
none of them should enter his house until the
guard came The Provost Marshall was
promptly on hand with his guard, but upon
arrival at she scene of action, all was found
iuiet, and not big darkey to be found.
) These rows are generally raised ny trlt1ing
.fdlers, and not by the orderly portion OF the
colored community. Our town negroes as
general thing, are more mannerly and better
behaved than the lazy country pumpkins, who
are inflated with the idea, that freedom con-
ssts in doing Ito use their own eXpresslons) as
they "darned please" Such creatures put
the military authorities to great deal more
trouble than is necessary, and we feel assured
the Bureau would find colonization, upon the
plan of Frank Blair, of Missouri, great bless
ing to such deluded worthless and useless
atoms of space upon this mundane sphere
4 This would be true philanthrophy- sustain
\ them in idleness is but catering to their de-
J pravity.
G W. Cook, and T. S Page, Jr., two col
ored advocates before the Freedman's Court,
i in pleading cases, always draw wide distinc-
\ lion in the oppressed of their down-trodden
1 race, by excluding worthless from the benefit
/ Of their great eloquence.
There is no use to attempt to disguise the
u act-ande we would be recreant to our duty
IS journalists, if we did not speak facts, there
4 fore we shall unhesitatingly do so, for truth
A fears nothing but ,oncealment.
4 Our colored population have been deluded
i aud imposed upon by mean white men, for
sinister motives of self interest. Norfolk is
Il not free from such men, and the sooner our
4 good citizens come forward and take some in
4 terest in the condition of the freedmen, the
4 better for all concerned Half these blatant,
1 scholastic patriots, who delude the negro, by
preaching sedition to him, and call it public
zeals are not only enemies Of their own race,
but a libel on humanity, who are so pusllanl-
| NOUS that they seek flight at the first sound of
alarm. The condition of affairs are altered !;
there Is mouse to attempt to disguise this I'M
controvertible fact. g The times are changed
and we are changed with them"
We see no great reason why the white man
should delude the superstition of the African,
with false sense of rights, which they them
selves cannot enjoy. The Freedman's Bureau
is their oracle and safety, and let them go
there for advice, or to some of the enlightened
Of their own color, and not be deceived by
men with white faces and black hearts, who,
under the cloak of sanctity, rob them. A
mean white man of this kind, is lower than
the worse Hottentot of the bushes, and less
to be relied upon.