The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-07-06
Radical Logic.

4uS 4AlOuho tnob viz eio'OhAb6 Vim
missioners, have begun to wade in troubled
waters" which fgurative expression, we tam
cy, has had all along for these officers vast
deal more truth than poetry in it. Why,
they have been in nothing but "troubled
waters" since they started-waters ablaze with
phosphorescence that comes from the corrup-
tons of the Bureau.
"1n Virginia, 1--WE continue to quote the
philosopher HoRAcE,) North Carolina and
South Carolina, the planters were right, and
the Bureau wrong; but, in Mississippi, Gen
eral STEDMAN has ventured SO far, or trouble
some things have come so near, that he has
seen with his own eyes freedman who "bore
on his own person indisputable evidence of
the most atrocious crime"
Ole freedman, mark you, thus fari What
has Horace to ssy % The unfortunate people
murdered in this very town? Not word.
And then the 'Burssu headquarters at Me-
redan were broken mp, officers shot at, and
an assistant commissioner murdered" In
all the South, one office broken up, and one
official murderedl It seems to US that
HORACE Is proving the people of the South
to be full of unparalleled patience and mod
Grafton.
But listen to the logician. He asks in vir-
tuous indignation: "Shall we be told that
good and pious people deplore such unwise
murders? but that he Bureau Is constant
cause of irritation" &c. Mark you'll the un-
fortunate 1t. BLAND1Ne, who was murdered
near Gren@d" 80 ''-'i"'-o . nut IN the plu-
ral, and the taking oil OF this one official
provokes HORACE to talk of murders"
If the Tribune cares to be informed Of such
ghsstly occurrences, it has only to take up
the Southern papers, to see where white peo-
pie are daily sacrificed to the blind passions
OF negroes; so, on the murder score the less
said by the Tribune for its pet Bureau sys-
TEN, the better. But HORACE is of different
mind, and on this one murder, which be will
put in the plural, be builds up an argument
for the continuation of the infamous system,
which has produced many tyrants and rob-
bers, but very few LAwsENcEs. Now you
"SAt0 nCeLCCly OSilSfS tUdt LQE uSAl al tlCi6
begins as follows: "a remarkable number of
cases, including some atrocious examples of
cruel treatment on ship board, have been
tried Of late in our Courts, We suppose the
frequent showing Of these outrages indicate
Cbad grammar by the way that they have
been so common for gears pact that they
have finally brought pressure on public
Justice and sympathy; for we cannot infer
that the law is cognizant of every case in
which seaman is maltreated, when only in
stances OF easormity are brought to our notice
The latest victim was a sailor on board the
ship Southland, who, according TO the testi-
every day Of the passage, and once was
strung up by the neck, so that from these
complicated injuries, he died on reaching port.
Nov mark j What measure of justice should
be dealt out to his murderers, it is not neces-
sary to say" This is lame and impotent
conclusion for the philosopher.
1t is not necessary to say what shall be
done with wretches who put white man to
death by slow torture; but treat one freed
man cruelly-which none can condemn more
emphatically than we do--and Horace then
finds it necessary to say great deal, For
our own part as there seems to be a remark
able number of these cases of brutal treat
ment Of white men, as these outrages have
been so common for years past; as it is a
reasonable inference that more happen than
"the law is cognizantof;" as these seem to be
the facts, on the Tribune's own showing,
we suggest Marine Bureau for the protec-
ton Of white Sailors, They seem to need it
most wosfully.