Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-01-01

The Reign of Terror I'm the South
Three Million Whites and
Blacks on the Point of Starva-
tfou = Rapine and BiOOdshed
Near = The Radical Equality
Doctrine Taking Root.
The Washington special OF the New York
Herald, dated December 26th, contains the
following exhibit of the frightful condition
of affairs in the South
One of your travelling correspondents.
who has just made an extensive tour OF
Louisiana, Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama,
North Carolina and South Carolina, repre-
sents the condition of the freedmen as
heartrenGing in the extreme. Ia all the
cotton districts of those States the great
mass of the freedmen are not only on the
point of starvation but possess scarcely a
sufficiency of clothing to cover their naked
ness. AT most of the railway stations many
colored children collect on the arrival of
the trains and enter into competition with
the famished swine and dogs for the pos
session of the bones thrown by passengers
from the trains, while scores of lazy negroes
collect about the depot as spectators. In
the corn growing districts the prospects of a
famine are not so near, and whites and
blacks are on friendly terms. He declares
that the negroes are much more destitute
than under the old slave regime. In many
counties OF these States the forests are
filled with armed negroes, who hunt game
in day time and make raids upon planters
stock at night The reign OF terror is gen.
eral in Upper Louisiana, Lower Mississip-
pi and the cotton districts of Georgia and
the Carolinas. The destitution, however,
is not confined to the blacks. Thousands
of the white population have not a mouths
provisions ahead,and no money with which
to lay in supply. Many planters, who
| were farseeing, provided years supply
| for their families, but the starving ne
groes have very generally pillaged their
smoke houses and granaries and strip
ped them clean. His estimate of the
number of persons Compiled from statistics
collected by the Executives of the States
and others) who will starve unless Con-
gress provides some relief, is three millions
thirds of whom are negroes. This
estimate embraces Louisiana, Mississippi
| Alabama, Georgia and the CarOlinas. He
has no estimate of the other unreconstruct.
ed States. Unless prompt action Is taken
to provide tor the starving freedmen anG
whites the pillaging OF the whites will be.
come general the latter will resist, and 8
bloody conflict will be ? the result
Planters are generally alarmed and
would leave the country could they
raise the mears to remove their families
llhhuiCOo oiO bhCi1 hObSS ioi
mere song, but can find no purchasers
Plantations that before the war command
ed as high as fifty dollars per acre, can bt
purchased for fiYe dollars per acre, so gen
eral is the terror that feigns and the desire
| of the owners to save their families from
the Outrages that are threatened by the ne
groes, unless aid comes from the Govern
ment or the people of the North.
On the way North he witnessed strik
ing illustration of the effect of Radica
| teachings. At Greensboro, N. c., party
of negro emigrants entered the cars. II
| the party were two very pretty white girls
Investigation resulted in learning that they
were the daughters of an English gold
miner in Guilford county, n .C.,and had vol
UNFAIRLY LETT their homes as the mistresses
OF two coal black negroes. They are des
tined to Vincennes, Ind, and Xenia, Ohio
Much indignation was manifested by the
white passengers, and threats of lynchins
the negroes were indulged in, but not car
ried out.