The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-06-12

Says the NeWOern Itepu0tlc0n: IL IS
fact worthy of note that the Bureau of Refu-
gees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, is
distributing nearly one one hundred rations
daily to the poor whites of that city.
There is nothing meritorious in this. The
poor people of the South pay the taxes that
support this Wilson North Caro-
linian.
Granting that the "poor people of the
South" did pay the taxes that support this
Bureau, there is something meritorious IN
the Just and proper administration of the
government, or any branch thereof. There
are a 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
its 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 to 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, a hue and
crv was raised by rebels throughout the
South against the "Freedmen's Bureau
The instigators of the fratricidal war endea-
| yored to obtain through bribery and treach-
ery 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 Courts of the
Provisional governments, he had the right
of appeal to the Courts of the Bureau
Through the honest and meritorious conduct
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 meritorious conduct OF
these officers system of peonage was bro,
ken up; through the noble and MERIToRI
GUS action of the agents Of the Bureau ano
Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands
thousar dis of the rising generation are being
educated.
The aged and the crippled who are LEFT
helpless by the men that have received ths
fruits of their lifelong labor, are receiving
aid; the widows and the orphans of brav'
men of the South who died N the deplora
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 un
principled men, whom once he followed II
his mistaken enthusiasm, receives ration
and kind treatment through the one-armet
federal soldier, now an officer Of the Freed
mems Bureau.
When, in former issue, we stated that
was fact worthy of note, the Bureau OF Re
fugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Land
was distributing one hundred rations dail
to the poor whites of this city, we did SO il
order to draw the attention of our people t
the fact that the Bureau, which is so geneI
; ally slandered. extended its aid to white q
we'll as colored people.
When the Cdrolinian tells its readers tina
"the poor people OF the South pay the tar
es that support this Bureau" it makes q
assertion which any person Of ordinary il
formation, knows to be untrue. The peopl
of the South do pay some taxes toward So
tanning the National Government, and I
course the Freedmens Bureau, but while th
Bureau extends its direct benefits to th
South only, by far the larger portion Of ii
taxes that support it, are collected at th
North.
The masses of the people of the Mort
who are majority of the people of our n
tion, are submitting to enormous taxstio
without murlnur, in order to reduce n