The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-06-06
THE FREEDMAN,S BUREAU.

f,ot worthy of note that the Bureau of Refu-
l l.oos freedmen and Abandoned Lands, is
G5iStributing nearly one one hundred rations
daily to the poor whites of that city.
There is nothing meritorious in this. The
Moor neople of the South pay the taxes that
ipynnort this Bureau Wilson North Caro-
lihidn.
Granting that the "poor people of the
South" did pay the taxes that support this
Bureau. there is something meritorious IN
the lust and proper administration of the
Government. or any branch thereof. There
are species of croakers throughout the
south. however. who at the present time
cannot see ANYTHING meritorious in any action
of the United States government or that OF
it's officials, unless such officials disregard
their own obligations and the dignity of
their Government by catering to the tastes
of horde of traitors who attempted the life
of the nation.
When at the close of the war it was found
necessary to extend the strong arm of the
National government 70 the freedmen, in Or
der to protect them against the impositions,
prosecutions and hatred of class of men
who hated the negro because he was free
and not on account of his race or color
when at this crisis the brightest and noblest
action of our government called into eXis-
tence the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and
Abandoned Lands, for the security of the
legitimate results of that action, hue and
cry was raised by rebels throughout the
South against the " Freedmen's Bureau
The instigators of the fratricidal war endea-
vored to obtain through bribery and treach-
cry what they had failed to accomplish at the
point of the bayonet. The Freedmen's Bu-
reau protected the colored man against per-
secutions which would have placed him in a
more deplorable condition than the slavery
from which he had just escaped. When JUS
tice was refused him by the Counts of the
Provisional governments, he had the right
of appeal to the Courts of the Bureau
Through the honest and meritorious condsct
of the officers of the Bureau, the late insur-
gent States were compelled, for their own
protection to admit negro testimony through
the humane and meriterious conduct Of
these officers a system of peonage was bro
ken up; through the noble and MERIToRI-
ous action of the agents of the Bureau and
Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
thousands of the rising generation are being
educated.
The aged and the crippled who are lef
helpless by the men that have received thu
fruits of their lifelong labor, are receiving
aid; the widows and the orphans of Draw
men Of the South who died IN the deplorl
BILE war brought on by demagogues and trai
tors, are being fed and clothed, and even
as is the case in this city, the MANNED Con
federate soldier now neglected by the I'M
principled men, whom once he followed in
his mistaken enthusiasm. receives rations
and kind treatment through the one-arlned
federal soldier, now an officer of the Freed
mems Bureau.
When, in former issue, we stated that it
was a fact worthy of note, the Bureau of Re
fugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands
was distributing one hundred rations daily
to the poor whites of this city, we did SO in
order to draw the attention of our people to
the fact that the Bureau, which is so gener
ally slandered, extended its aid to white as
well as colored people.
When the Cu1011alan tells its readers thai
the poor people OF the South pay the tax
es that support this Bureau" it makes an
assertion which any person of ordinary in
formation, knows to be untrue. The people
of the South do pay some taxes toward sus-
tanning the National Government, and OF
course the Freedmen's Bureau, but while the
Bureau extends its direct benefits to the
South only, by far the larger portion of the
taxes that support it, are collected at the
North.
The masses Of the people of the North
who are majority of the people of our ma
ton, are submitting to enormous taxation
without murmur, in order to reduce ma
tlonal debt which was incurred in maintain
ing the integrity of the Union, and which
guided by the example of other nations, they
cculo with justice charge to the instigators
OF the rebellion and the men who attempted
e4e natl"n's life But the people of the
worm seek no such indemnity, they would
Iatier look upon the South as an erring
of"ther. and receive him back into equal
communion under the maternal roof, than
~ resort to harsh measures of punishment
Our Government is not perfect, nothing of
huihan creation is but the men who can
see no geod IL the nation which protects
S.en IN life, liberty and the pursuit of hap
plness who ind fault in everything, from a
t senomous and revengeful motives,are at this
Si.ne the worse enemies of the South and of
0ur eountry.-Nem6esn Republican,
AS additional evidence of the good the Bu-
.o"u Is dong, We state that during the last
month twelve thousand rations have been is
suro at Raleigh, for Raleigh and the sur
., u,ng country. These .raions for one
ray iof one month are worth about SIS, 0e0.
az least one-half have been issued TO
needy white persons -