The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-06-26
The Be1roau.


O'Connor, of Newbern, N. c., has
had q bout with the Bureau, in
which he has come out second best,
up to this time, but he intends to
carry the case before the President.
He was summoned before the Bureau
on the charge of maltreating negro
woman. He denied the jurisdiction
of the Bureau, but he was fined
The Magistrates Court undertook to
pass upon his case; whereupon the
Bureau threatened to arrest the JUS
tices, who, however, proceeded to try
the case, despite the threats. Mr..
OConnor's counsel then produced
before the Bureau Court q certified
copy of the records of the Special
Magistrates Court in O'Connor's
case, and showed that his client was
now In the hands of the civil authori-
ties to answer the charge against him,
and claimed his discharge from mill
tary custody. The Bureau refused
to look at the documents or to recog-
nlze the action of the Court, and de-
mandcd the fine of fifty dollars, which
OConnor paid.
The case now goes up to Governor
Worth, to be by him laid before the
President.
We trust that the President will
lnterpose to stop this intoIerable in
terference of the military with the
civil authorities. The point has beer
settled by Judge Nelson, of the Su-
preme Court, that all such proceed
ings are unlawful and unconstitu-
tlonal. l.-Richmond Dispatch.
GEORGIA. -"Quondam," CORES
pondent Of the New York Times,
writing from Macon, thus refers to
the "Bureau, and its workings in
Georgia:
Let any impartial observer com
pare the condition of societyin South
western Georgia, where the Bureau
is not universally known and felt.
with that of Augusta, Atlanta, Macon
or Savannah, where agents are as
numerous as blackberries. and if he
does not agree with me that both
black and white are happier, more
contented, on better terms with each
other, more virtuous and more indus
trlous, where the Bureau is in total
eclipse than where its full effulgence
40 Ari'' "u itiftN 10 confess myself
mistaken
SO long as the old slave codes were
nnrepealcd, and the negroes were de-
prived of legal protection aud the
right t. appeal to the Courts, every
one agreed that there was manifest
necessity for the establishment Of
some authority to sec that the freed
men were secure against wrong. 1t
could not have been expected that
the sudden emancipation Of 80 many
millions OF negroes could have been
attended with SO little disturbance of
the peace and good order Of the coun-
try. II was the duty of the Govern
ment to provide the most certain pro-
lection OF the emarcipatcd slaves, and
this was generally conceded. although
the manner in which the duty was
performed was Very unanimously con-
demned, and not without reason.
The exploits Of the General Nilds
and Chaplain Trenches and Captain
Bryants, of the Freedmcn's Bureau.
who first introduced the institution
IN Georgia, challenge competition in
their excess Of outrage and merciless
oppression. But from the hour that
the Legislature passed laws placing
the negro on the same footing as the
white man before the law. and the
Courts We're re-opened, and the au-
thorlty Of the civil magistrates Of the
State restored, the Freedmen's Bu-
reau was as unnecessary in Georgia
as it would be in Vermont.