, 1866-06-15
4 TOUR In GEdyR43LA AND ALA
BAMA.
The Disloyal Sentiment Gaining
Grqund.
TALKS WITH TIE PEOPLE.
What Planters and White Trash Think.
A Southern Pctroleuua Y, Nasby.

What Planters and White Trash Think.
A Southern Pctroleuna Y, NaAby.
Correspondence OF tho Chicago Ir1hune.]
BELLESoHEx, Ala, Jnne 8.
"A year since, made tour through MissIs-
sippl and portion of Alabama, detailed &C.
count OF which appeared in the TRIBUNE
shortly after my return to Gods country"
Since my tour, 1havc spent very little Of my
ttmaia The South, until carly IN May, when /
reached Macon, Georgia, by rail-, passing
through Nashville, Chnttanooen and Atlanta !;
aud ncvcr MS 10 surprised as was 10 Wit
ness the almost complete revolution which
has taken place in the sentiment of tho
people, which has at once appeared,
to even tho most casual observer. have
been a careful reader Of all the leading pa-
pcrs Of the country, during the In
tcryal, md have watched every re.
port-oflc1al or uuof1lcfal-whIch tended
to throw light upon the situatlnu Of the
Southern people; and while was convinced,
nom all that could gathcr, that the South
crn people wero FAT more dfsadected to the
was entirely unprepared for the truo condi-
tlon Of things a. they cxcst, especially In the
Gulf States-for am satisfied that, in Ten
ncssec, thanks 10 the loyal elements there
the situation Is far more hopeful.
MACON AND ITS VICINITY.
! reached Macon on the 4th Of May, and
remained there till the 10th and while there
had nost excellent opportunity for investi-
eating tho condition of affairs. Within tho
city, 1t Is True, there exlsts a rather whole,
somc dread OF Uncle Sam. The case with
which few companies Of United States
troops might take possession Of the place,
sud run the "munIclpal machine" is q
check upon the malice Of its citizens. "We
are compelled, twas the sum ol their language,
Yankee school masters, but that will not last
forever )" and hare no doubt that It martial
Law were abrogated to-day, tomorrow would
sec every colored school house in heaps of
ashes, and the teachers, whether male OF
frmale, would do we'll If they escaped with
theIr lives the fury Of the very ''cbivalrous"
and ''Eallant" "sons Of the South"
attending schools In this city, WhIle not moro
than half that number Of whites are doing
SO. This fact led to several conversations
between mynelt and citizens, who did not
know was Northern man, but believed me
. Tenuesscean, somc OF which I will detail,
omittIng the names Of the parties.
WHAT 4 WEALTHY MAN sAID-H1G1ER
SCHOOLS AND Hu1sKEY PUNCHES.
Twas standing In front Of my hotel one
morning, and saw dozen or more diminutive
Africans. With states and books. walking
toward the school house, WHEN a we'll dressed
man, who was standing near me, turued and
said:
.,n,3 T9st Il Is beautiful pass we arc coming to-
I assented. and said that 1t waa beautiful
grand pass.
swell, said be, II suppose We must stand
1t for while yet; but tor how lcng, don't
know. There's that little ntgger*--and he
pointed to q boy about nine years old, aud
black as u be bad just emerged from the
mine, or was, TIL the Yankees stole h.m ; be
lives at my house now, because have to hire
bis mother he's just Is old Is my boy, and
the Yankee school maEms have been trailing
h1m, I'LL be reads better than ny boy does.
That is . nice pass lor things to come to ; in
little while these here nlggers, after they've
learned to read, viii be turning up their noses
at every white man that can't"
I told him thin5s srere working strangely.
II tell you what 1t is,'' he continued, '.if
this thing Riu't stopped, We will hare to
establish ragged schools for every white child,
OF the niggera will get the upper hand aud
that will tax us to death, and besides that, 1t
which prevails In the North, where such i
thing Is gentleman is not known aud II one
were to 70 there, they would Tar and feather
him, but-let's 70 aud take drink, struuger'
said be, changing the subject very suddenly.
We went into the bar-foom together, and
while there. he continued bis TRADE. appar-
emily having drawn Inspiration from the huge
punch which be imbibed. he, however, could
not clearly see the way out Of the dilemma
In which the Sonth was placed. He did not,
however, despair.
"we'd b1tter, not Houe to 'war,'' ho oaee
the Democratic party. all the time u be con-
tinued With equal truth. ''aud then We could
have either controlled the Government, or so
far crippled the Abolitiuntsts that they could
have done us very little harm, only run away
cur nlggers--a few hundred year at most,
while now they can ct all Of them-anothef
fnlo coDe1ess, We viii Just a eon1n ss a tim % old
laws against allowing negroes to learn to read,
and that will put the matter right 1t we
can't get our negroes back. We can keep
them nnder-could you stand another
punch -
another lecture from one Of the "poor
whites" on
1was walking down Though the suburbs
Of the town, where there are a number OF
poor whites 1lEine, when sat down on
grassy bank heneath shade, While there,
musing On the condition Of aaairs, I Was APP
preached by a man somewhat AboTc the mid.
die aIe, though he was not By any means
"old," in the ordinary acceptance. of that
term. l would have had no difficulty In
knowing that be WAS one Of the poorer
classes, even had / not seen him emerge from
plg stys Of the North, and fsr inferior to the
average Of COW stables upon the extreme
frontier. he had evidently come out With q
view to dndiog out who could be, for the
curiosity Of the southerners, regarding stFan-
gers, Is lar deeper than that Of The proyesbi.
ally Wn RT1ps s,Isaass 5snEss he aeco,tca me- ".b,,
"Yes,' I replied, "lhe weather Is quite
sultry for ths beginning Of May
aYon don't Live about here, reckon"
"Your from Tennessee, reckon"
told him that Tennessee WAS now my
home.
~ s%e'|{ A,,''' ssr yon ever here atoF''".
"Wali, The country Ia gotn' to ruin; the
niggera Ii all been freed, aud they's got u1g
ger school jtst over thar, and Its kept By Yam
KEGS, and tbeg's goin' to learn sem Ill to
read, and then thar Il be var OF races"
he had evidently heard come one nse that
expression, and had Its meaning explained to
him.
"Them niger schools III lmake them Mig
gers that they are as good as us, and ne
won't 1t and that; we Is goin' to be the 'spc-
nor rnce, and We amt gofn' to 'sociato with
nlggers jlst to please Yankees"
"Were yon in the army during the war; ]
asked.
"Wall, only in the Georgia militia"
began TO tremble when 1 felt myself 10
such close proximity to one Of those terrible
le1iows--ihe militia men-but soon regainea
my eauanimitY, aud asked him If he had any
Ya.." said he; "four three Of them were
either killed, or died In the hospital. The
other is at home"
"Yas, eight more, five Of them Is to home"
"They 70 to school," insinuated mildly.
"No, sir, thar's noue Of my shlldfcu ever
went to school, and mono Of them ncTcr
learned to read. couldn't Afford to pay for
their schoolin', and the Yankees don't never
send us no teachers at their expense"
would you send Jour children to school
II the Yankees were to otIsr to teach them for
"No, sir; Tn too proud for that. But
them niggars, theT are-well, they're nlggars
and they Il send their children. Lcarnio' is
good thing, expect. but nlggnrs hain't no
business with 1t; 1t amt Tor nl;S;gars."
THOROUGHLY RECONSTRUCTED.
1met mau who was evidently thoroughly
reconstructed, as that term Ia understood IN
Dixie. He was representative man. IN ex-
ample Of at least four-tifths of the popula.
tion eonsh Of the Tennessee River, 30 far as
his views were concerned. Was settling
ior two days board at the clerks desk nt the
hotel, when the individual to whom rcfcr
came up, and seeirg the clerk put mark at
my name and that WaB from Nashville, he
ut once commenced a conversation with me.
He wAs ore OF the better class he had been