The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-12-25

6s8ubuc0uS mOV6monCo IN tho VuroeOus
structcd ssuthcrn States.
Gloomier with each succeeding day are our
advices from the unreconstructed Southern
States Our latest information from North
Carolina involves deplorable account Of tho
depredations Of vagrant negroes, some gangs
Of them being represented as armed and car
rying terror along their line Of thieving opera
TONS In Georgia it appears the members Of
the Reconstruction Convention, in adjourning
over for the Christmas holidays, had to leave
without any money, the State Treasurer re-
fusing to honor the requisition of the Conven-
ton for little bill Of forty thousand dollars.
detachment of troops, however, on the Esd had
left Macon for Milledgeville, supposed to have
some connection with the State Treasurer's re-
fusal to fork over this aforesaid sum Of forty
thousand to the order Of General Pope and the
Convention. How or whether or not the State
Treasurer has managed to accumulate as much
as forty thousand dollars does not appear.
In the Louisiana Reconstruction Convention
the members were as much embarrassed on the
money question az in Georgia. A resolution
providing for the payment Of the members
warrants out of any funds in the hands Of the
State Treasurer would perhaps meet the diff
Guilty, and perhaps not. II will certainly be
rather rough upon the delegates Of African de-
scent from the interior if they have to walk
or paddle home 10 spend their Christmas, In
consequence of no funds or credit to pay their
way by stage or steamboat
In Mississippi it appears that General Ord,
Commander of the Fourth Military District,
embracing Mississippi and Arkansas, had
ordered boards of arbitration to be appointed
for the protection of laborers the blacks),
when asked for by laborer complaining that
his share OF the crop has not been given him,
or when called for by landlord or merchant
complaining under oath that the planter has
fraudulently assigned to his laborers an undue
share Of the crop, to the injury Of the COM
plainant These specifications Of complaints
are painfully suggestive Of the general distress
in Mississippi among landlords, merchants,
planters and laborers. and Of the tricks against
each other to which this general distress has
driven them.
1t is evident from our advices from every
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political black party in the unreconstructsd
States, in active political hostility to the white
race as enemies and oppressors Of the black
race, is fast destroying all relations of harmony
and confidence between whites and blacks,
and spreading the idea among the men Of each
race that the other will have to leave the
country or fight to maintain its position on Its
native soil. Nor can we perceive how the two
races in any of the cotton States especially
in any one where the blacks are In excess Of
the whites) can long remain In the Same COM
munity, with this idea in full operation on both
sides, that whites or blacks will have to emil
CRATE Itappears to us that the radical pro-
gramme of reconstruction means the removal
of the whites and the occupation Of their lands
by the blacks At all events, the actual state
of affairs in the South between the two races
suggests the necessity of a trenchant message
to Congress from President johnson.