Owyhee bullion. [volume] (Silver City, I.T. [Idaho]) 1866-1867, 1867-05-23
SILVER CITY, 1. 7. THURSDAY, MAY 80. 1867.

W OehCih hise, duu NuOSe names L Will
mention, informed me that these stories
OF outrages against Union men and Il 9
freedmen were, as l have stated, grossly
exaggerated and many of them willfully
and wickedly false. l refer to General
Heron, formerly of Iowa. who was for a
long time commandant in the department
Of New Orleans. He told me in Novem.
Der last that single and alone he could
drive all over the State of fLouisiana with
as much safety as in the State of Iowa.
Col. Mann, who is the collector of the
port of New Orleans, confirms the state
ment. General Benton, who is also at
the city of New Orleans, and who was
engaged in our service, states these facts.
l do not deny that outrages occasionally
exist there as they do elsewhere; but
that there is any such persistent purpose
to destroy Union men because they are
Union men, to drive away northern men
because they are from the North, or to
destroy or to injure the freedmen, is not
true.
On the same subject Mr.. D. read q
letter received by him from General Tar
bell, Union oficer-as follows:
"Dear Sir r;-Allow me to say that I
have been in the States of Georgia, Ala
bama, and Mississippi since December
last; that | was Wing and am Repub-
lican, and hence looked closely at south
ern society. have no hesitation in de-
nouncing the reports in northern news
papers of outrages upon the blacks and
upon northern settlers as utter fabrica-
tlons or malicious exaggerations. trav.
eled by rail, by water, on horseback, on
foot, in company and alone, by day and
by night, totally unarmed except a pock-
ct knife, purposely, openly and frankly
declaring to every one 1 was Yankee
and Black Republican, l met others
who had travelled on horseback from
Florida to Mississippi, who, like me, were
Republicans, and do assure you | would
sooner travel throughout the South than
the North, so far as personal safetyis con.
cerned' "To
say that the South is 'caricatured' in the
North does not express it; she is SANDER.
ed, vilifed, wickedly, infamously belied.
Were the South to go North she would
not know herself; if she did she would
disown herself Were the North to 90
South she would be astonished at the
Misrepresentation and falsehoods and
with the cruelty unjust and erroneous
sentiments prevailing there. The North
is all wrong, not in its consistent anti
slavery sentiments, but in its impressions
of southern character. The negroes are
neither hated nor ill-treated; northern
settlers are not molested; the South ac.
cepts the situation in good faith" *
A * "Thcre are just grounds of
complaint against the freemen's Bureau
officers. Most of them are interested in
plantations, and so many are corrupt and
incompetent that the service, the Gov
ernment, and the North are scandalized
by their conduct"
"But not to be too lengthy, 1 assure
you, sir, that this terrific public opinion
that is driving the North to the support of
the startling and dangerous Capitalization
ofpower in Congress is based upon false
hood and Misrepresentation.
Gas expect to be judged by my Max
er at the great day of final Judgment, 1
state to you solemnly that from extensive
travels in these States, from converse.
tions with all classes and colors, and after
listening to hundreds, 1 believe, before
high Heaven, that all these newspaper
reports of hatred to and outrages upon
blacks by whites and of the molestations
OF northern settlers are baseless, wicked
tabrlcations, concocted and reported ex-
pressly to create this fearful public opin-
ion which should sustain the change of
the fundamental principles of the Consti-
tuition, devised by our forefathers with
wisdom and foresight they themselves
scarcely comprehend"
With regard to the obligations and du-
A.