New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-07-10
BEREAVEMENT or FREEDMEN.

The occasional occurrence Of lawlessness on
the part of our negro population has given
occasion for some degree Of apprehension and
has had its effect in beginning an alienation Of
feeling between the two classes, which ought
not to exist It is unpleasant to revert to this
subject, but it is evident that hostility need
not develop itself in very considerable magni-
tuda. In most cases the freedmen have shown
themselves friendly to the Writes, but the con
tagion of few bad examples may spread a
spirit of disrespect, discomfort and disorde,
throughout the South. In cases of affrays.
where difficulties occur between blacks on one
side and whites on the other, whatever may be
the cause on merits Of the quarrel all of The
former class who hear of them will impute the
blame exclusively to the latter Reports
spread with rapidity among negroes, with
out the use of mails, writing or telegraph
and in a greatly exaggerated form reach
distant localities in time so brief as
to be credible only to those who know their
habits. If black man is killed in a riot. the
colored oral dispatch makes him half regi-
ment by the time the swelling news has
travelled two hundred miles They are. velv
excitable, and when excited are peculiarly
deaf to anything like reason or remonstrance.
In case Of a riotous gathering if any of their
number are killed they will regard the she'd
ding Of blood as an act of outrage and oppres-
sion, and will be more ready for q disturbance
than before. Thus, from every collision be-
tween q freedman and citizen there are liable
to result others.
The radical foes Of the South are laboring
to bring about this state Of feeling. Nothing
would please them so we'll as to see a riot
where mob Of thousand negroes.
blind, thoughtless and vindictive, should
engage with party Of citizens attempting To
dsperse or arrest the rioters, and their delight
would be greatly augmented ny the arrival Oh
the scene Of action of a few companies of col
ored troops to interfere in the support Of their
class If a difficulty of an extensive and formi-
dable character should ever occur in the
South, which we trust viii never be the case.
it will grow up by some such process. The
fire will not kindle now but the emissaries of
the radicals are using great exertions to rem
u5E TIE HdltIlti CunDuSIlDIe. Every act of
Congress bearing upon Southern affairs shows
the same wicked purpose to destroy the feel
ings of trust and good will now subsistina
between the freedmen and their late masters.
In view Of this, no other course can be adj
vised than that OF extreme forbearance towards
all eolored people, coupled with due vigilance
and caution. They ought to feel more i'm
pressively than ever that they have no truer
friends or better advisers than their late own
ers and the white people of the South. Special
pains ought now to be taken to show to them
that as long as they are orderly, respectful and
industrious they will be esteemed, helped, en-
couraged and protected. Good advice and
kindness need not be wasted on the incurably
vicious and idle +; such need only be watched
with vigilance, and punished for every violation
of law They are the tools of villains with
whittier faces but blacker hearts than them
selves. The treatment of the bad should be
in such plain contrast to that Of the good that
the latter cannot fail to notice it. The law
does not tolerate yagabonds, nor ought thew
to be suffered to contaminate by words and
example such freedmen as are. disposed to be
steady and Industrious