The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-03-27

heretofore, encourage Industry, luVlCt
these people to come to the great west
| where liberty is known and loyalty loy.
| ed, where energy, industry, and labor
is rewarded. 1fCongress, however, is
to be turned into charitable institution,
to support all classes of people who do
not try to support themselves, you may
then appropriate 100000 every
month, and the more you appropriate
the more people will be starved at the
end of every month so long as there is
dollar or man to pay taxes.
Tell me. sir, that this money is not to
90 into the hands and mouths of these
people that attempted to destroy this
| Government. Buy your 100000
worth of rations, send them so the diff.
ferent posts, to the commanders in the
different parts of the South, distribute
your commissary stores to the various
officers throughout that country, how
will they be issued? They will be
issued upon the statements Of parties
that they have need Of them. Who
will make these statements They will
be more likely to be made by the men
and women who have attempted to de-
stroy you and me than by those who
have revered the flag and loved their
country.
have seen the families Of the men
with their ten thousand broad acres
come and ask for provisions, and have
seen the provisions given. These men
have all manner of devices to attain their
ends. very common dodge used to
be like this: a lady living on planta-
ton with her fifty or seventy-fve slaves,
whose husband was in the rebel army,
would send one of her colored servants
to make application at the commissary's
department for provisions for the whole
of the slaves. She controlled their la
Dor and would send them on this errand.
The provisions would be ordered to be
given them, and when they were re-
ceived they would be divided among
the whole family. So it was, and so it
will be again. Appropriate this money
and the man who owns his broad acres
with his hired laborers will resort to
the same trick and receive the rations.
Mr.. ELDRIDGE. May I make an in
quiry of the gentleman
Mr.. LOGAN. Yes, sir.
MIR. ELDR1DGE. understand him to |
say that the. Southern people were in
the habit of using their negroes for the |
of procuring provisions from
the officers of the army by dodge. I |
wish to know if that was very com
mon practice among these negroes, and
if SO, whether those negroes who prac-
tised this deceit were considered as
loyal men at the time.
MIR. LOGAN. They were considered
loyal; and | never knew disloyal ne
gro during the war. [Laughter.1 But
will tell the gentleman this, that they
have been subject to the will of their
masters for such length of time that
they know no better than to obey them.
MIR. ELDRIDGE. / understand the
gentleman to say that fifty negroes
would obey one woman, and cheat the
officers of the army; and do it without
showing what he did, and still be loyal.
Mr.. LOGAN. 1t was cheating the of.
icers of the army or Government; it
vas cheat on the part of the person
who directed them to doit. We issued
he rations because we believed the
statement of the negroes, but afterward
We learned the manner in which the
provisions were disposed of.
Mr.. BOYER. One question. fit had
,een known that these negroes who
hus applied for rations did SO for the
purpose of saving their mistress and her
amlly from starvation, would the gen.
leman have considered it proper for
he officers to have given the rations ?
Mr.. LOGAN. So far as l am concern
d l should have obeyed orders, no
natter what thought. But the gen
,leman certainly ought not to be as
onished at a dodge ofthis kind. Those
,eople did that upon the same principle
hat the Northern Copperheads lodged
he draft. Laughter and applause in
he galleries.
Mr.. BOYER. Mr.. Chairman, the gen.
leman has lodged my question.
Laughter. He has failed to answer
t, but replies eyasively that he should
ave obeyed orders. I would not have
imposed a gentleman SO opposed to {
lodging would have set us such an ex-
mple at this time. Laughter
MIR. LOGAN. Well, so far as nv I
!ualifcatins for lodging are concerned, {
he gentleman will probably learn some
hing more about them at some future
lme, when he gets better acquainted
With me. Laughter. Ihave no dis
'osition to dodge anything. 1 only
ssert facts; the gentleman can draw
is own differences from them. And I !
ssert that the same thing will occur
gam; not with the colored people any t
nore than with any other class. But I {
ell the gentleman now that hear no s
ppeal coming from the starving peo- t
lie OF Missouri, although that State t
uttered almost as much as any other on ]
ccount Of war; But because it is a !
oyal State, because the loyal portion 9
the people got control and held it
rmly in the Union, we are not called
pom to appropriate money to feed them. {
Mr. BOYER. l ask the gentleman j
7hether Missouri is not included in the +
rovisions of this resolution, whether, !
is not an appropriation for the South i
nd Southwest?
MIR. LOGAN. / do not understand it :
$ applying to Missouri. l do not un- :
erstand that there is any report en- !
racing any portion of Missouri in this .