The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-01-25


the capacity Of Il froedmar's school-.each-
CT. He had casually made the acquain-
tanco of a Southern lady of two score and
ten, whose husband had fallen under the
rcbel flag, leaving her widow Of some
estate. The young gentleman, desirous
of matrimony and plantations, pressed
his suit, and was progressing, as he
thought, most favoraby, when one eve
ming the widow told him at a tea-party,
in the presence of large number of peo-
plc that she'd rather be buried alive
than marry Yankee" The patriot
school-tcaeher no longer plies the rod Of
chastisemcnt over refractory freedmen.
The star of his hope has gone down, and
he has gono back to Boston, wreck Of
his former self.
Your committee next went to Mont
gomery, Alabama, where, as at Rich
mend, the colored citizens focked to meet
us, and We'd with each other for the car
rying of our baggage. We paid them
fifty cents carpet-sack from the depot,
and they were enthusiastic in their dem
onstrations of loyalty, in receiving the
currency from u.s. In this city evidences
of disloyalty met us on every hand. A
] Vermont missionary had been insulted
few days before our arrival for attempt
ing to introduce "John Browns Body"
and q We'll Hang Jeff. Davis on Sour
apple Tree" as Sabbath-school hymns. A
hop had just taken place at the leading
hotel, to which whites only were invited,
and to which the freedmen were excluded
on account of color. The consequence
was an indignation meeting of the freed
men, at which equal rights were demand
ed. A repetition of balls and hops, ex-
clusively white in their character, will
lead to Jamaica instructions and Hay
tion rebclions, magnifed thousand
times in their dreadful results At Mont
gomery, as at Atlanta, we met Treasury
Agent, who was opposed to Immediate
reunion, and warmly in favor of terri
torial condition of the Southern States.
He mentioned incidentally that he had
son-in-law in New Hampshire who would
make an excellent Provisional Governor,
and cousin who would do for terrific
rial delegate to Congress. Above all
things, he hoped Congress would not
listen to the hypocritical cries of Alabama
loyalty. He assured us that there was
no loyalty in tho State, except in his
Office, and said it would be base injustice
to supercede him till he had finished the
making of hundred thousand dollars.
We next proceeded to Charleston, South
Carolina. Here we had long interview
with Northern gentleman whom we
knew to be in every way reliable. He
had responded to his country's call, in the
early days of the war, with a sutler wag-
on full of Yankee notions, and had been
unvarying in his devotion to the cause
ever since, except at intervals when Gen.
Grant had ordered suffers to the rear.
Since the cessation of armed hostility he
had been down South to SEQ what could
be dono in the way of buying Southern
lands. He had found the people of South
Carolina so rebellious at heart as to re-
fuse to sell their plantations for twenty
cents an aero in Federal currency. lie
convinced us that an armed force ought
to be kept in Charleston for many years
to come, and that he ought to be appoint
cd sutler, as he had had much experience
in tho business. He found in this hot
bed of secession and cradle of rebellion
decided preference for gray over blue,
which extended itself even to the ladies'
petticoats, many of which your Commit
tee carefully examined. 1t is proper to
state that the articles thus scrutinized
were hanging on line to dry, and had
no ladies in them.
Your committee next visited Savannah,
where they found disloyalty maniesting
itself Enthusiastically on all sides. We
met an agent of the Freedmcn's Bureau,
who gave it as his opinion that the war
was only half over, and that unless the
powers of the Bureau were enlarged SO
as to give him control of all the cotton
exported from Savannah, the glorious
emblem of our national liberty would not
float unmolcstcd very long. He had not
been invited to single tea-party, though
he had lived in Savannah for year,