The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-04-18

As an evidence OF tno
nagroes TO their different labor, Oeneral
Rrown stated that the value of rations
;Ssuad in December last to negroes IN
the State of Virginia was S32, 442 80.
For the last month the sum expended
showed a reduction of twenty-five per
cent.
Ex-Governor Wise now came IN and
was presented to General Steedman, who
expressed himself glad to have the OPP.
portunity of discovering the views OF
Mr.. Wise on the condition of affairs In
general and the workings of the Freed
mems Bureau in particular
eve knew" said Governor Wise, Just
the size of the elephant you were getting
by the freeing of the slave. Take Ac-
comac county, for instance; we had, Tor
thirty wears before the war, been enga-
ped in the emancipation of the blacks,
and had about thirty-four hundred of
Them on our hands who could, by the
use of the oyster tongs for two days, OBJ,
tain sufficient to last them the rest of
the week, which they spent in frolic.
If the State of Virginia had never
owned a slave, she never conld have
been whipped There'would have been
no war, had there been no slaves. TAKE
away the bayonet, and will stake my
life that the vote Of the people OF Nrr.
ginia will lie against slavery 10y ma
iaritv that wOuld astonish yon
4" The class that cansea trouble now is
the same AZ of old The poor whites
that va used a. overseera are the men
The negro de5p7es them still he viii
hgten to them and bny their whisky
Then with considerable emphasis the
Ioyelnor remarked Il tell you, Gen.
eral The negro il an ariatocrat. lie can
tell gentleman he knows him bS III,
,fintt Field hands speak OF, not the
more intelligent body servant; no is far
above the animal that We used a. an
oy6laeer al The cost Of four trmos what
free labor now costs US.
d" / have respect for an intelligent ne,
gro Old Tom Griffin asked me to take a
Brunswick stew with him. on Saturday
next shaa't fail 10 do So. aud do you
suppa,e that will not be treated like
gentleman If You do yon are lrIong
d" luo late demonstration yon may be
sure as not calculated tOplease us, and |
do a. nre Won that hardly a respectable
dark, engaged in il The greater por
ton uf The negroes come from the conn
try, same as far a. thirty miles
WIN reference 10 the Bureau Greed
men s., the Governor was disposed to
think that it had been as we'll managed
here - it could he by men unacquainted
with he people and the country.
"Tf.e, some Of the younger men had
been influenced by these same animals
that We had spoken of before, the Over
seer md the parsons that came along
with me army had made trouble by tell
irg tie negroes what they never knew
l. cfor, that is, that they had been
sham, lrllv abused; and it is to inst
these men that we are indebted for the
length oftima that il has taken to get
the negroes at work again The negroes
shoald have snperintendance but why
not men who understand the negro and
the country Better than any stranger
cam General Terry had the impress
sion tlat the breaking ont OF a war With
France would result IN the going over
.ol large number of the men that com
Iusrd the late Southern army to the
flag o. France. told him that / Wonld
stake ny life against any such move
ment Tae sight oft the old flag was in
itself something that an American
could OF but feel.
NJ troops never carried the conted
crate tag, it had too much white in it
for me The State fagof Virginia was
the cuiois We urcd; ard it made my
blood boil to see the old flag arrayed
against lis felt that they were oar
c5I0ys, tnd The only COlOr5, too, that an
Amern.lu could fight under with any
heart
VITA reference to the Freedman )"
Court, Governor Wise WAS asked by
General Steedman, what the result Of
the removal of the cases from that court
to the civil courts would be.
The Governor thought favorable, say
ing that, "the negroes have always had
the same rights and protection that the
white have had, and perhaps even
more Then, too said the Governor,
how many conrtS have you in the sixty
four thousand square miles Of land that
Virginia contains Negroes that live in
remote sections cannot travel forty or
fifty m,le~ 10 settle case that involves
but few dollars The sooner these
and all military power removed, the
sooner will things assume 4 prosperous
and Cheering condition. The Freed
men bureau has its>advant ages, but It
has The Semblance of a military power
kept over us, and thi. yon know can
hardly be pleasant
He gave an instance OF rather novel
justice that lately occurred in Accomac
county on the Eastern Shore
A nero that had been freed long
years since, and had lived on his old
master, land ard used it, now came be
fore the freedmen's Court, over which
lieutenant of the Veteran Reserve corps
presided and laid claim to this land
The lieutenant gave as his decision .
That this land should belong to the ne.
gro and his wife during their life time.
and no appeal should be made from this
decision
| have given verbatim the different
Conversations, that persons may be able
to see and understand the style of con
verSati"n and feeling of the different
classes