Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-11-23


full, depend in the main, upon the imagi-
nation, the activity and fertility OF the Rad
ical reporters. Judging from my own OBJ
servation, they are, one and all, untrue.
If true to any extent, there, Is this, to be
said that the s. 'soutrages " of the blacks, and
their universal daily and nightly habits Of
Stealing everything they cantday their
hands on-eggs, poultry pigs, corn, cloth
ing, horses, mules, cotton and everything,
Wlth their habits of idleness, and riding
horses and mules by night without leave,
are not reported nor the fact that the
outrages" upon the, freedmen are only.
"lynch law" in the abscence or inutility
OF civil law. OF what use to prosecute be-
fore the courts, for rObbing hen-roosts or
other crimes, men who would feel proud to
be in the company ofjudges and lawyers
on any charge, and would prefer to 90 to
Jail and befed to working for bread sat.
Nowhere in the South do the blacks re-
gard the law OF marriage. Select a mil-
lion of males, with as many females, all
total strangers to each other, and place
them on plantation--in thirty days or
less they ywlll be mated" to the last pair
Let them live together and have children,
at the end of which time separate them
place them on other plantations with
strangers, and they will again innate"
as before, and so on to the end of their
lives. It's common for black man to
live with woman of his color for. a week,
or month, thlee months, three years. and
then quit her for another, and the woman
he left, with utter indifference, will tell any
one that jim. 10 or Jerry "had her" for
four months, and now has took" another.
Yet these are the people about whose
equality" with the whites, as soldiers and
al 1nn, ra.,1 ,Nfg
to whom, according to some, we owe the
white officer and soldier of the Union
army. The "loyal blacks" of whom we
also hear so much, were a myth. They
were kept ut work on their plantations
and loyal to the South by the women, and
they ywere loyal to tine North only when freed
from their female guardians by the advance
of our troops. Their voluntary enlistment
into the Union army is another humbug.
Every officer and soldier knows that the
blacks were "gobbled" and enlisted nOlens
uolenS. They did not dare to say no; and
there was no time during the war that fifty
white men would not whip o full regi-
ment of them. .... -...
They are poor uniortunates, who deserve
the kindest sympathy and the most truth
ful treatment. Heaven send them secular
and religious, teachers of noble and true
hearts! The longer they are strangers to
politicians and the "ballot and the bayo-
net, !" the better for them, forall classes, and
for the country. BeeeheE poor man, was
right, when he said they must make their
march, in which they may be assisted by
good men, but the ballot and the politicians
would be their curse. 'Hi .J ...
The ideal negro of the Northern mind
has No octual existence i'm the SOuth save in
rare exceptions. AS well make voters at
once of Indians, Chinese, "greasers" Of
Mexico, all foreigners on arrival, and chill
dren of ten years and upward. Such is the
infatuation of the North. 1t would seem
thetruth would not be believed, though one
arose from the dead. The cry of " Copper
head" aud "traitor" is held to be conclusive
against truth, justice, honor and common
sense, o.. Id.