Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-05-24

himself to work at once to rectify the wrongs as
well as may be. & But he cannot do 1T, nor Is 1,
probably within human power to organize al
Washington a bureau which can properly look at
ter the interests of the freedmen scattered over
the immense territories OF the South.
From the New York Evening Post (Tepublican)
General Steedman reports that some of the prin
cipal agents of the Freedmens Bureau In Virginia
and North Carolina are carrying on farms, saw
mills and other enterprises, on their private
connt Of course this is wrong, for the Bureau
agent has by virtue of his place. too great an au.
thority and influence the freedmen not to get
an unfair advantage over his competitors. It is
though the Secretary of the Treasury should al
the same time be Stock-broker in New York.
We trust short work will be made with these un-
faithful officers, who should be taught that it is a
grave offence to violate great trust as was con
fded to them.
The true advice that General Steedman should
have given would have been to abolish the
whole thing entirely It is a nuisance and an
abomination that breeds, through such scoundrels
as the Reverends Fitz and James and the others,
dissensions between the citizens of the South and
their late slaves foments riots and bloodshed
exasperates the negro against his former master
by intoxicating lying beliefs into his credulous
mind makes the negro disconnected, by inducing
him to believe that the people of the South are
those alone who stand in the way of his social and
political advancement and finally completes its
long catalogue of evils 10y rObbing the deluded
blacks and publishing false and malignant state
ments in regard to the manner in which the
Southern people treat them.
In view of General Towards declarations con-
corning the ''poor, vile whiskey drinking, gam
bling cut-thrOats, who, according to him. are now
so sedulously cutting black Threats, we must con-
slider the report of affairs, as seen by General
Steedman upon the spot, as most timely 1t
shows who are the most prone, through their lust
for money to infict the outrages which General
Howard charges upon portion of the Southern
people 1t lays bare the atrocities that are daily
being penetrated upon that unhappy race, who
never knew grief until they fell into the greedy
clutches of Northern philanthropists." 1t lifts
the VEIL hitherto carefully kept down, that has
covered the iniquities of that curse to the South
and bane to the negro-the Freedmen's Bureau
and dsarms the malice that would hold the
Southern people answerable for whatever of mis-
cry is suffered by their former slaves to-day.
From the Metropolitan Record, (Derocratc.)
The truth with regard to that Infamous and di-
abolcal institution, the Freedmens Burean-the
enemy alike of the White man and the Blacks
at last coming out We have time and again ex-
posed it's operations in our columns, and we are
glad to find the public are being walked up to
true sense of its character. To say that it is an
incubus upon the country is but feeble express
sion by which to characterize it it is not only
incubus, it is a fraud, swindle, and while there
are doubtless some good men connected with 1t
who perform their duties conscientiously it is a
disgrace to the country by which it is even toer-
ated. We glad that it is now being exposed
in it's true colors, and We call upon the honest and
manly everywhere to put upon it the seal of their
The matter should not be allowed to rest here
the Southern people owe it to themselves and to
their Northern fellowcitizens to expose the scoun
drels who have been preying not alone upon them
but upon us, for we insist that every wrong done
to the South is in ury to the North.
The Gazette after RECALLING its readers with the
specimens of the "pious beauties =" of the Bureau
in this State, closes follows
The Freedmens Bureau is political institu
ton, and as long as it can be advantageously
worked by the radical faction, long will it be
sustained. 1t may be oppressive and rulnous IN
it's operations SO far regards both the black and
white people of the South, but this viii be con-
sidered small matter compared with the good
the Bureau can do in giving places to needy poll
5icians in disseminating Northern ideas, and in
all elections in the interests of the
radicals whenever occasion shall offer And per
maps the worst part of this whole business is that
such exposures as Generals Steedman and Fuller
ton have made will produce but little sensation, |
even among the better people of the North. Ten
years ago the story of such wrongs as these Bu-
reau agents have been guilty of would have in |
famed a whole nation with just Indignation |
which would have manifested itself in general
expression of reprobatlOn. Now, most men will
read this report, mutter an anathema on the petty
5yrants and plunderers who have prostituted their
offices, and then go to their respective places of
business and forget all about the matter. We
suppose that such a condition Of the public mind
IS a natural result of civil war It is, neverthe-
ess, national Generalization.
From the Richmond Times.
Generals Steedman and Fullerton have proceed |
ID to South Carolina for the purpose of investi- |
eating the condition of the Freedman's Bureau in
rom Washington the more fragrant become the |
ascalities of the Bureau In Virginia they found |
he condition Of the Bureau bad, although Colo |
lel Brown is an honest gentleman in North Car |
Dina they found the Bureau disgrace to the |
Government and it is now asserted that in South
Carolina and in other Southern States matters are
infinitely worse. There was, it seems, one official
n North Carolina who was doing his duty, where
IS it is confidently predicted that, like Diogenes,
he commissioners will seek in vain for single |
lonest agent further South. These precious guar
lians of the freedmen are it seems very ravenous
wolves in sleeps clothing, who are practicing in |
he far South frauds and crimes at which human |
ty shudders 1t is sincerely to be regretted that
with plenary power to hang send these wretches
TO the penitentiaries of the various States in which
heir crimes have been committed.
From the Raleigh Sentinel.
In reading the report of Generals Steedman
md Fullerton upon the operation of the Freed |
mems Bureau in North Carolina, it will be peril
nent to remember that the cruelties therein de-
scribed inflicted upon the Freedmen, were
committed by the same class of men who we're |
filed with such righteous indignation at the idea
Of whipping the ''unhappy negro" for larceny,
even though white men were similarly punished
for the same offence The ''black and bloody |
CODE of North Carolina exercised these sensitive
gentry terribly Oh for forty-stentor power
to chant thy praise, Hypocrisy
From the Richmond Examiner.
Speculation is rife. Men dressed in little brief