The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-12-27
what RndioaIism Has Done.

From The Richmond Dispatch.
The telegraph informs us that General Ord
has not only sent Colonel Gillem to Washing
ton to represent to the President and Secre-
tary of War the starving condition of large
number of negroes in Mississippi and the
absolute necessity of provision being made for
them; but has also issued an order which inn
plies that the negroes owe their suffering con-
dition to their refusal to work last summer.
The General has given formal orders that all
freedmen who are able will be required to earn
their support during the coming year, and to
90 to wOrk upon the best terms that can be
procured, even should it furnish a support
only, and thus prevent them becoming
burden to the Government; and that freedmen
who can but will not earn livelihood when
employment can be procured will lay them
selves liable to arrest and punishment as
vagrants.
Before they were emancipated, negro pau
pers were unknown. Every slave had home
and master to feed him and his children.
The SICK the aged and the young were all
| well cared for. Now, left to themselves, thou
sands of these same negroes are in danger of
| starving. The mere recital of these facts
| should open the eyes of the negroes who are
| told, and of the Yankee schoolmarms who
| tell them, that they had to work for nothing
| while they were slaves and that their late
| masters owe them wages even now. The
| facts show that the negroes do not earn
| enough to keep themselves out of the poor
house, and therefore prove that slave labor
| is as most Yankees contend dearer than free
| labor
| We suppose that never before in the history
| of the world was there a country, so nearly
ruined as this fair Southern land has been by
| the meddling fanaticism OF New EnglaHd.
| Both the whites and the blacks have been in
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| prived of good masters, comfortable quarters,
| food, raiment, and medical attendance, aud
converted into paupers. The whites have
| been deprived of good servants, and been sur
rounded in their stead by wandering mobs of
| rogues, thieves, Vagabonds, and paupers,
among whom no man can live and prosper.
| New England herself is beginning to feel the
effects of her ruinous policy, and will before
many years find that she has indeed destroyed
| her own best market. Boston has already
| been deprived of the benefits of the Cunard
steamers, which hereafter will not stop at that
port. Many of the New England factories are
idle, and many more of them will soon be- and
year by year that detested region will sink
| lower and lower in the scale of adversity.
The curses she has heaped upon us will return
home to roost. She will learn when it is too
late that she was fool as well as hypOcrite
and knave. She is doomed, as "Yank,, wrote
to us from Boston, to poverty and want. The
South must necessarily be prosperous before
many years shall have passed
over, unless, indeed, the negro
is to acquire supremacy among us-a
fate which, at any rate, is not impending over
Virginia or North Carolina. Her natural ad-
vantages are such that if the whites are
allowed to maintain their supremacy she must
become rich and happy. But New England is
a land of sterility. The whole six States did
not raise as much wheat in 1850 as did the
county OF Loudoun, in Virginia. She main
tains her population by manufactures. These
manufactures she sold before the war to the
people of the South, and during the war to the
general Government. Now she has few Gus
toners in the South, and the Government
needs no Shoes blankets, uniforms, guns,
knapsacks, or any of the other thousands OF
articles which were needed while war was
fragrant. Her fishing bounties cannot here
after be relied upon. Protective tariffs will
hereafter be denied her. Her bonds will be
taxed. Her sons will be driven out of at least
half the Offices which they now hold. She
will find no sympathy from the reconstructed
South, and none from the plundered West.
Our day of tribulation is nOw-her's will come
soon enough. How much sympathy she will
deserve may be easily calculated when it is
remembered that but for her the twelve mil
lions of people who inhabit the Southern States
would to-day be the richest and the happiest
upon the face of the globe.