The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-03-13


comgandsheIe, and with The; Commisaioner of tbs
EEeedmen's Bureau. It ishard for us to acknoVI.
Fsdge and still harder to bear military supremacy,
but it is only Justice to recognize talas military
5rnle. as far as we have known it, has been neither
Sude nor tyrannicala There may have been cases n
(which we disapproved it's action but no, one can
KdenJ that Oh the WHOLE it has been consideyata 81
-FOUR feelings and respectful of our rights 7. SO oi
Nthe Freaapen.s Bureau, since the appointment OF
General ScorT. We may, and very justly do, con-
slider the whole system an intolerahle nuisance.
| which we would like to see abolished. But Gene
raj soorr has administered his Office with fairness
and On anxious desire to do right. His predeces
sor, and the ubiquitous legislation =of Coneresa;
made his field: Of operations the most perplexed
and difficult in the South !; but while he has done
full justice to the freedmen, the planters have
found him patient Just iand courteous. Now,
whatever may be the Intentions or DESIRE spf the
extreme Radicals, these men haye. not. md fhesc
menwin not, excite or permit war oE Eaeess. They
are white men of our Tace and blood !; they are
accustomed to obedience and discipline they have
avery solemn responsibility they as
no man living here can fail to do the edgencies of
this crisis they win not allow fraud or violance;
and if we go to them ii the spirit Of. true brave
men, who wish not TO prevent the freedman rom
tho exercise Of the privilege which the law: has
given them, but with the purpose of teaching them
how to use that privilege for their good and ours,
for the salvation of that State which ia today
theirs as 1t ID oura, We wiIl lat their hands
earnest t1dicious and efactiVa cooperation .'
2. n>the nextplace weE can,F with perfect self
respeot consult those freedmen whoss INTEL
hgence and character entitle them to ourg respent
and to intnsnss gnI their own people. We ali
know many Of fithem:Mhose names have been
familiar to Us from boyhood; and there, ii rrE:
SOUTHERN gentlelnan, not man Of considerationin In
any walk of Life, who does not feel sure that they
will recognize hsT to advise, and treat his nd
wise with Difference: Many Of chem have been III
years among us leading blaneless and useful lives,
and # they naturally rejoice at that # elevation
which the full privilege Of citizenship gives them
it is no matter Of surprise, ndignation or sneer.
They know better than We do The wishes and
the preiudices Of their own people. ThaS feel las
fully as we do that universal suffrage is Unfair to
their characters and dangerous to their sntarests
and e the opportunity Is offered they viii act With
US respectfully and'cordially s&E Ez:s.sz
g. With regard to the gEeet 1nasssaf Ae1d labor
ersn whose Intelligence has not heen ycrftiyafed
enough to begin to comprehend the issues upon
which they will be called on tovote that very igno-
rance will Tor long time prevent any interest on
their part in elections, and ii Is not likely fat the
sgtstors Ct mischief who viii infest the cities and
the coast will trouble the more remote couhtty
districts. In most ,of these districts there has
been comparatively little disturbance IN old fela
tions there has been some change 81 freedmen
from one plantation to another, but asa general
rule they are ct work in their old naighhoinoods
and have manifested neither incivIity or insubor-