The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-12-06

ana oaroarlsm might De certainly ex-
pected.
He rendered special thanks to the
Freedmen's Bureau for its aid in trans
forming the late rebel States into pan
demonium, and also acknowledged the
services of the Methodist and Baptist
churches, in forwarding the mission of
lawlessness, and rapine and bloodshed
and universal ruin. KELLEY, ASHLEY,
CHANDLER and others followed him
with words of approval and exhorta-
tion. They were so much delighted that
the DEVILS doings were so prosperous in
the South, that they pledged an inde-
finite amount of money to carry on the
enterprises of Radicalism and Satan.
In order that our readers may under
stand the actual character and progress
of the work to which these people are
devoting so much time, money and
energy, we publish herewith an extract
from a Southern paper, showing the
fearful condition to which fanatics,
fools, demagOgues, and brutes, black
and white, are reducing that country.
When the Radical party launched their
subjugation scheme upon the public,
it needed no mystic "sccOnd sight"
to foresee the inevitable effects of
such legislation as the Freedmen's
Bureau act and the civil rights
act (; of the continual interference be-
tween employer and employee, prac-
ticed by the military authorities; of the
reckless and insane harangues of the
emissaries of Radicalism upon the
ignorant negroes of the Southern States.
Already complaints are rife throughout
the rural districts that the negroes,
leaving the fields, have organized them
selves into prowling gangs, subsisting
on plunder, producing nothing, and
spending their tine in riot and de-
bauchery. Poverty and destitution
como next and then all the horrors of
social revolution. Let the following,
which We take from the Memphis
.4ralanche of the 23d ultimo, serve as aD
example:
For some time great deal of dissat-
isfaction has existed among the freed
men in the neighborbood of Columbus,
Mississippi. They had quit wor k, and
left the fields white with cotton, ana
would not pluck boil, the reason Civ
EN- for such action being that their
share of the crop would not pay their
expenses for the year, owing to the tax
on the staple and the low price to which
il had fallen. As soon as they refused
To work, as q matter of course, they bad
tn leave the plantations, and give up
their houses to other laborers who
would work. They then took to the
woods, and commenced system of in
discriminate pilfering aud stock kill
ing. About two hundred of them have
been assembled in the neighborhood of
Columbus, Miss, since the beginning
of the election, and had become per
feet nuisance and terror to the neigh
bOrhood. At the request of the cltl-
zens company of United States
troops had been stationed at
Columbus for the protection of
the lives and property of the people.
When this band of vagabondizsd ne
groes had exhausted the country of ev-
erything which was stealable, they de-
termined to make raid upon the town
of Columbus in full force. They were
all armed, and procuring fife and
drum, they marched into the town, de-
manding bread. Not one of them asked
for work; they did not want that.
Bread was all their cry, and they were
about commencing an indiscriminate
robbery, when the United States troops
appeared on the ground and disarmed
them first, and then dispersed them.
The rinrleaders were taken into custo-
DIV. What a scene of bloodshed and
robbery we would have had to relate,
had it not been for the fortunate pre-
sence of the troops, we shudder to think
of. This is the first attempt at u bread
riot which has ever occurred in the
South, but how long it will be until
they become common it takes no
far seeing prophet to tell. The ne
groes all through the country are be-
coming most thoroughly demOrallzed
under the teachings of the Radical
hyenas, who counsel and incite them at
every fence corner, to their own de-
struction. They now, positively, in
many localities refuse to work; will
make no contracts with the planters,
fully expecting the division of lands so
long promised them by their Radical
leaders. Bands of from three to fifty
are roaming through Mississippi, in
every direction, terror and nuisance,
not only to the planter, but to the in
dustrious of their own color. How
long this state of affairs can continue
without scenes of riot and bloodshed,
depends entirely upon the forbearance
of the white man. A spark may ignite
the train which will redden the horizon
with the blaze of burning houses, and
initiate a conflict between the races
bloody and remorseless.
The following is from the telegraphic
columns Of the Pittsburg Commercial OF
yesterday: