The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-12-30

THREE MILLION WHITES AND BLACKS ON THE POINT
OF rAltvATIoN-RApINE AND BLooDsHED NEAR
TIE RADICAL EQUALITY DOCTRINE TAKING ROOT.
We find the following telegraphed from Washing
ton to the New York Herald
One of your travelling correspondents, who has
inst made an extensive tour OF LOUISIANA, Geor,
gia, Mississippi, Alabama, North Carolina ana
South Carolina, represents the condition OF inc
freedmen ms heart-rending in the extreme. In all
the cotton districts OF those States the great mass
If the freedmen are not only on the point OF star
walton but possess scarcely 4 suihclency or cioth-
ING to cover their naledness. AT most OF tne
ra1lwav stations many colored children collect on
the arrival of the trains and enter into competition
wifi, the fa,ished swine and dogs for the posses
sion If the bones thrown by passengers from inc
trains. while scores OF lazy negroes collect ABOUT
the depots rs spectators. In lhe corn sloMiDS
districts the prospects of n famine are not so neal,
and whites and blacks are on friendly terms. lie
declares that the negroes are much more destitute
than under the old slave regime. In many counties
of these states the forests are hlled with armed
NEGROES. who hunt game IN day time AMI make
aids upon planters stock at night. The reign OF
terror is general in upper Louislans, lower Mlssis-
sinni and the cotton districts OF georgia ana tio
| Carolinas. The destitution, however, Is nor COLI
fined to the blacks. Thousands OF the wiilio p9-
| pulation have not n months PROVISIONS anoau'
| and no money to lay in q supply. Many planters
who were far-seeing, provided 4 years supply lor
| their families. but the starving negroes have very
| generally pillagcd their smoke-houses ana grana-
rios and stripped them clean. The estimate OF me
number of persons compiled from statistics col
lecfed by the Executives of the States and otners)
who will starvo unless Congress provides some re-
lief. is three millions, two-thirdso OF whom arc nc
croes. This estimate embraces LOUISIANA n1lssl9-
seinni- Alabama. Georgia and the Carolnas; he mas
no estimate of the other unreconstructed states.
| Unless prompt action .s taken to provide for tie
storv;no freedmen and whites tho piHaginS OF the
whites Will become general the latter wall resistant
. bloody conflict will be The result. Planters are gen,
erally alarmed and would leave the country could
they raise the means to remove then faihlles'
Enndreds are offering their homes for a mere song
b1t can find no purchasers. Plantations MAJ oe-
fore the war commanded as high as NIT dplIars
nny acre can be purchased fortive dollars per acre,
so General is the terror that reigns and the desIe
of t6e owners to save their families from the OUT
RACES that are threatened by the negroes, unless
aid comes from the government or the people Oh
the North. On the way North he Witnessed I
striking illustration of the effect of Radical teach
ings. 1t Greensboro, n. o., party OF nesro enl.,
grants entered the cars. In the party were I"o
very pretty white girls. Investigator FeSui.g Fan ~
learning that they we're the dau9htSrs Oh al - ~
fish gold miner in Guilford county, \; u, aiu m :"
voluntarily left their homes as the mlstresses ol tMo
coal black negroes. They are destined 10 IN
ccnnes, Ind, and Henia. Ohio. Much ihush"tlon
was manifested by the white passengers, nnd
threats Of ~lynchinG the negroes were INDUCED ILL.,
but not carried out.