The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1866-01-20


and regulations forthe patriotic cause of
cotton and ten or twelveslhousand dol,
lars a year, Your Committee concur.
ed entirely in his opinion. I
While in Atlanta your conAnittee
heard many expressions of sentiment
which go to show how far General
Grant is mistaken in what lie says in
his late report. On one occasion, espe.
clally,wc heard what convinced us that
the lava OF secession still burned in the
Southern bosom. The case was that of
q young gentleman from Massachusetts,
OF poor but honest parents, who had
come to the South in The capaciry'of
freedman's schooi.teacher. He had
casually made the acquaintance Of a
Southern lady of two score and ten,
whose husband had fallen undcr'the
rchcl flag, leaving her u widow of some
estate. The young gentleman, desir.
Gus of matrimony and plantations,
pressed his suit, and was progressing, as
he thought, most favorably, when one
evening the widow told him at tea.
party, IN the presence of large number
ofpcople, that she'd rather be buried
alive than marry Yankee" The 20.
lriot school.teachcr no longer plies the
rod Of chas,iscment over refractory
freedmen. The star of his hope has
gone down, and he has gone back to
Boston, a wreck Of his former self
our committee next went to Mont.
gomery, Alabama, where, us at Rich,
nlond, the colorcd citizens locked to
meet us, and We'd with, each other for
the carrying of our baggage. We
paid them fifty cents carpct.sack from
the depot, and they were enthusiastic in
their demonstrations of loyalty, in re.
cciving the currency from us, In tins
city evidences Of disloyalty met us on
every hand. a vermont missionary
had been insulled a few days before our
arrival.for attempting to introduce john
Browns Body" and "Well Hang jeff
Davis on a Sour apple Tlec," as Sab
bath school hymns. y hop had just
taken place AT the leading hotel, to
which whites only were invited, and to-
which the freedmen were excluded on
accon: Of color The C, nSequcnce was
an indignation meeting Of The freedmen,
at which equal rights were demanded.
A repetition Of balls and hops, excu.
sively white i'll their character, will lead
| to jamaica Instructions and lIavticn
rcbellions, magnticd thousand times
in their dreadful results. At Mont.
gomcry, as al Atlanta, we met Treas.
ury Agent who was opposed TO imme.
date reunion, and warmly in favor OF a
territorial condition for the Southern
States. lle mentioned incidentally
that llc had II son.in.law in New iIamp.
shire who would make an excellent
Provisional Governor, ana cousin who
you'd do for a territorial delegate TO
Congress. Above all things, h. hoped
Congress would listen to the hypo.
critical cries Of Alabama loyalty. lie
assured us that there was no loyalty i'll
the State, except in his Office, and SAID it
would be. base injustice to supersede
him till he had finished the making ofa
hundred thousand dollars.
!, Ne next proceeded to Charleston
South Carolina. Here we lad n long
interview with a Northern gentleman
whom we knew to be in every way reli
able. He had responded to his com.
try'S call, in tie early days Of the war
with sutler wagon,lulf Of Yankee no.
tons, and had been unvarying in his
devotion to the canse ever since, except
at intervals when Gen. Grant, had order.
cd suffers to the rear Since the cessa.