The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-05-17
From the Indianapolis Journal
Southern Agitat0rs and Northern
ReneYOlence.

SOAOSVAOACNs
The Freedmen's Bureau is not
popular with Southern politicians,
the rabble of Southern cities, nor with
the Copperhead Democracy of the
3 North. The first hate it because it
lnterferes with their absolute domin-
ion over the blacks, and exercises
power that they conceive initiates
against their influence and privileges.
The rabble, like the Memphis muir
derers and house burners, are in
censed against it, because they have
been taught to believe that the object
of the Bureau is to place the negro on
the same level with themselves, feat
that would be impossible, without re-
ducing the former below the grade of
Fejee canibals. The Northern Dem
ocrats vent their spite at it, for the
reason that their old Southern masters
do so.
We have heretofore referred to the
Indifference of Southern politicians to
the sufferings of the destitute white
people of that section, who have been,
and still are, mainly dependent on the
Freedmen's Bureau for bread. They
are either unable or unwilling to relieve
the distress that exists In their midst.
and therefore ought to welcome the
charity of the Government so gener-
ously dispensed through the agency of
the Bureau; but they meet it with
curses, and under their Inspiration
numbers of its agents have been foully
assassinated. Their conduct scarcely
admits of any other explanation than
that they have no sympathy with the
poor whites, who have been Empower
ished by the war prosecuted by the
slaveholding aristocracy, and care lit
tie whether they live or die. They
spend their time in abusing Congress-
and the Northern people, and devote
their surplus means to raising monu-
ments to the Confederate dead, leav-
ing the poor to be fed by the Govern
ment, or by the private charity of
Northern citizens. Bn
The Memphis Post, loyal paper
located In that sink of crime and trea-I
son, noticing some carping remarks of
a reconstructed " journal of that city
about the sufferings of the poor, and
against the Freedmen's Bureau, re-
ferred to the relief furnished by that
organization and by charitable people
of the Northern States to the desti-
tute South, and added the following
severe but temperate structures On the
conduct of Southern agitators:
Would any one who reads the above
suppose that money, food, and clothing, to
the value of many hundred thousand dol
lars, have been raised in the Northern
towns and cities and applied to these starv-
ing ones? that every day contributions are
being made by generous people, whose
hearts and purses are ever open to the call
of the starving among their fellow-crea-
lures, never asking whether they are born
north or south of Mason and Dixon's Line?
Money raised and expended for the relief
of suffering and starving fellow creatures
white men, women, and children-dOeS
not show such devotion to the lost
cause" or make such a display for the eyes
of men, as will the gaudy church with
"mural tablets" and "painted windows"
.'Here our worthy fellow-citizens expend
their means in raising Church of st. Lag
arus, or marble monument, to glorify the
peals on behalf 81 p Tue 1sSs,t1 and Starving
Southern men, women and children. Has
one dollar been raised in Memphis to help
these suffering people? We think they
would appreciate the sympathy of the
Ledger somewhat more If 1t would send
them a few loaves of bread, instead of at
their distress. We hardly think it willbe
terrible addition to their pnngs to know
that they have not some ex-rebel officer to
represent them in Congress. 1t seems that
Colonel Burke and Mr.. Cruikshank do not
come to Memphis to find relief for these
who having open purses for suffering fell
4ow-creatures, and do not seek to make any
political capital by the wretchedness of
their suffering" ssssslss ffA sos