Clarksville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1865-1867, 1867-07-05
LETTER FROM PULASKI, TENN.
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PULASKI, June 26th, 1857.
DEAR CHRoSnLE: The planters of Giles
are rejoicing over the fairess prospect they
have had for several years, Of an abundant
yield of cotton, corn and small grain. The
wheat, now almost all harvested, is an unu-
sually good crop. Cotton, though late, is
very promising, generally clear of grass and
weeds, aud the stand, with few exceptions
excellent.
A squad Of Brownlow's militia is stationed
at Pulaski. They are miserable looking spec
linens of humanity, and do not excite par
ticle of admiration as "bold soldier boys"
The Bureau agent here met with a severe
punishment 10 the form Of jaw-boxing
from his landlady, into whose house his wife
had introduced an Objectionable colored la
dy (2) as visitor. The gallant Agent was
guilty of insolence, and the jaw-boxing, to-
gether with the ejectment of himself, wife
and baggage into the street, was the result.
The land lady is highly respectable, and the
aggravation Of the negrophllist was such as
10 justify her conduct, though she regrets the
necessity, which is never forced upon women
by Southern men, Of resorting to physical
means of defense.
The following incident illustrative of the
truth Of the adage, "chckens will come home
to roost" recently occurred in the southern
part of the county. True or false, in every
particular relate it as currently reported and
believed. A well known individual who
rendered himself during and since the war,
very odious to his neighbors by voluntarily
lending his aid in various ways to the Fede-
rails to annoy, Cypress and rob them, and who
is now a candidate for Office, and to secure
his election is an active leader in getting up
Union Leagues, is preaching social as well
as political equality, received o call at bis
residence from well dressed colored ger tie
man, ~ and much TO his surprise and indig-
nation, colored gent went into bis parlor,
informed his daughter that he had come to
rmake social call. The redoubtable Union
Lacquer, and a candidate for Office, upon
being informed thereof indignantly drove
the colored man from his house. The COL
ored gentleman upon retiring, remarked that
he was experimenting, to ascertain whether
the Squire was practicing what he Is preach
ing. The Squire accuses the wicked rebels
OF sending the negro to his house to insult
him and his family.
Brownlow has sent Dutchman name not
known to The writer) to conduct the regis
tration of voters in this county, vice Willie
Williford, whose work was rejected because
too many conservatives were on his list
What the result of the election will be under
the registration to be made, it is not difficult
to guess.
God send that the war of races inaugura-
ted and encouraged by the Radical party,
may terminate without further boodshed |!
That it is being waged 6ercely, in secret, by
the Union Leagues is evident. What sort
of magazine they are preparing with which
to involve the poor negro in irretrievable ru-
in, we as yet know only in part. When
heartless and dishonest men conooct schemes
of oppression, their selfshness does not per-
init them to feel particle of sympathy for
the dupes they use to accomplish their unholy
ends.
Alas, the poor negro! Their newly-found
friends have already caused the death of q
million of his race in these Southern States.
Disease, want, 1.-THE result of idleness,) the
absence of wholesome moral influences, the
presence of the vilest Of advisers, fostering
and arousing his passions and prejudices
lagainst those who understand him best and
from long association have learned how best
to befriend him, are elements which are rap
idly working to produce an unhappy condi-
ton of his race. For the vilest and most
unhoy of purposes their present arrogance
and self-importance are unused and fostered
by fanatics aud calculating Office seekers.
You, of Montgomery County, have not as
yet realized, to the extent we have here, the
degrading and demoraizng influence of Yam
kee ideas and Yankee selfishuess upon the
colored population. In Giles County and In
the adjacent counties of North Alabama, for
several years during and since the war, the
Northern worshippers of despsed King
cotton" and the Judases to the manor born,
who sympathze with the oppression, and
coolly calculate the "price of blood, have
industriously attempted to nopopolize the
freedmens labor. Here, the alternate pres.
} ence of Federal and Confederate bayonets
rendered the gold producing lint so precar-
ously prescious, that in the efforts Of the
mammon worshippers To play double game,
their wits were sharpened and their conscen-
ces scared, SO that with this class of 1t has
become the heighth of ambition TO cheat the
negro politically, that they may secure his
services in the cotton patch, monopolize his
labor, and enjoy the ineffable pleasure of ex-
haustng his wages by selling him goods,
gewgaws and whiskey at large percentim
Of profit.
Here, too, Mitchell, (the star-gazer) Tur.
chin and Dodge, Federal Generals, reveled in
cotton tbieving, in splendid houses, W hose fur
) niture was shipped northward to their fam-
| lies. Here, deserters and rt.eatng refugees
from the Confederate lines, took up their
abode on fine plantations and in fine houses,
worked and cheated our former saves--in-
D duced them to steal stock, implements and
provisions, and appropriated unto themselves
: the lions share. Here were government
FARMS NEGRO corrals) where miscegenatng
Captains, Lieutenants and Surgeons would
, put their hands into Uncle Sans pockets,
and appropriate large commissions ON the
proceeds of the produce of his cotton patch
es. Here, the Agent Of the Freedman's b.
rean, dishonest just in proportion to the OPP
, portuniiies of receiving large commissions for
oppression, issued their "Lettres de Cachet,"
and arrested, imprisoned, maligned and SLAM
dered some of the best men of the country.
Had tobacco planting been as easy trade
learned as cotton raising, your people too,
would have more sorely realized the effects
of puriiap ical education.
Every where around US localities recall
the past-msny incidents painful in the ex-
treme-msny glorious. Yet we are oontin-
ually called upon to forget the past-an i'm
possibility. Having promised to do nothing
D in onnosition To the Government and being