The Van Buren press., 1867-06-21

clnna,i Commercial republican, writes In the
following strain from Charleston, relative 10
the Southern Missionaries. His remarks are
applicable in good degree, TO The designing
men who are travelling about this part of tlic
State, inducing the blacks 10 leave their wOr..
and come to this city to join Leagues of dark
ness aud corruption. II seems TO us that it i
the duty of the commanding Genencral fthi,
District 10 interpose in this matter, for We are
Informed of several planters, whose work was
intcriered with, consequent on the assembling
of the Freedmen in our city last week, II
they are to be induced, 10y these political
mountcbanks, TO leave their homes two or
three timcsa week anG be gone hall the nights,
In attendance on these midnight assemblies,
planters might as well give up their crops at
once. The following is the honest convictions
of northern Radical, after an impartial IN
vestigation into the workings of these political
Missionaries:
There was a large meeting of fcolored people
in Augusta, yesterday. lt was gotten up and
addressed by a gentleman calling himself
Captain" Bryant, present or former attachc
of the freedmens bureau. WHO seems to have
taken especial charge of the negroes of that
part ofGeorga, and To- be using them to sc-
cure his own election 10 some office when the
proper time comes. lie harrangued for two
hours, in the open air, during heavy storm.
and the darkies stood there. regardless of
weather, listening to what he had 10 say,
which was In a great measure what le ought
not 10 have said. He talked about rebels and
rebel sympathizers, aud warned his sable
auditors to be on the lookout tor their old
enemies meaning the whites, of course. \ and
not to be entrapped into voting for them or
with them. Now, il is very easy to foresce
the result of such teaching and preaching as
this. 1t is not difficult to predict from it an
antagonism between the whites and the blacks
OF the south, which may yet make the much
talkcd-oi-and laughed-at war ofraccs dread
tul reality. If as the blacks are continually
taught by such irreS Sponsiblc upStartS as Bry-
ant, the whites and blacks of the south are
natural and unreconcilable enemies of each
other, how long can they live in the same
communities how long can this enmity be-
restrained within peaceful limits? Taking
these demagogues at their word. il is merely a
question OF time when the one or the other oi
the two races shall be compelled to leave the
souti-for nothing is palmer than that two il'-
reconcilably hostile races can not live togeth-
er under one local government very long
The only question. then. is which of the two
Is the stronger, and to them the dominion of
the country is certain, ultimately, to fall
There Is more mischief in this sort of mis-
sionary work" than the people of the north
who are so far removed that they can not
watch its effects. and can hear oft only as q
step IN the right direction of human freedom
imagine | have given the subject a good
attention I ont ha
country. and have heard the views of inteli-
gent and patriotic southern men upon it, and
| am justified in saying that it will lead to no.
thing but bad results. There is no objection
to free speech to the negroes; but the class OF
men who have undertaken to do the "mis-
sionary work" DO not stop with public
speeches. They have organized the negroe,
into secret leagues, which are held together
by promises of cOnfiscation, and farms. and
all that sort of thing. They have already
taught the blacks to believe that the soil o
the south belongs to them--tliat they have
titled it and improved it and enriched theil
former masters out of it. and that it is now
theirs by sacred right Why not 90 to tn,
/ factory hands of Boston and Lowell and Prov
+ idence and tell them that upon this newly dis
! "nve"ed r"inoirla thny own the factorie. ans
/ the looms they have been working at wage
not convertible into more than was paid t,
| the slave.
| There is no reason why the blacks and tn
whites of the south should not live amicabl,
and peaceably together in their new relations
/ to each other. They will do so flet alone
but the tendency of the new party moyemen
/ is to create mutual enmity between them
which may not be easily assuaged. If the ne
groes were not capable of determining part,
questions for themselves, what did the repub
lican party enfranchise them for? and if the
are capable. why are such fellows as Bryan
sent here to array them in secret league
against the people among whom they live?