The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1868-09-30
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.

~ III LAAS AVA Ia i
LucTUEX BY MAJ. GEN. HOWARD on rnB
CoSDITIoS or THE SouTH.-Major General
o. o. Howard, Commissioner Of the Freed
mems Bureau, delivered, last evening, in the
Congregational church, corner of Tenth and
q streets, at the request of Hon. Hugh l..
Bond, Of Baltimore, Rev. DR.. whipplc, OF New
York, and other prominent gentlemen inter
cstcd in the education and advancement of the
freedmen, an interesting account OF his recent
mainly on the educational prospects of that
part OF the country. Among other itoms he
referred to his stopping at Richmond and Nor
pie. In these places he found the coored peo-
pie, generally, comfortably clad and DESTROYS
of being educated. Certain classes OF persons
acted In spiteful and yindictiye manner to-
wards these freed people, but they ovinced a
determination to perseverc In the work of cd
ucsiipg and elevating themselves as best they
could with the opportunities afforded them
The speaker visited, next, the northern edge
of the Dismal Swamp, where many of the
negroes were engaged In the lumber business,
their industry, compelled them to encourage
rather than molcst them in their avocation.
In some instances, parties who had no inter
hsrnss and perplex them. At Weldon, North
Carolina, the negroes, he learned, did not trust
dccciving them. The colorcd people appeared,
however, pretty well contented. The speaker
Inquired Of one how much he received for his
tion put, he replied that he could save half OF
that amount. He was informed by the egroes
that the white people told them they could
vote provided they would pofe rih he irhife
people. The next sabbath, General Howard
spent At Raleigh. For all the colored children
10 the town, there were school-houscs, but for
the poor white children, there was no school
house, and never had been.
or the white children, none but those who
were wealthy were educated. North Caro-
lima, he continued, was the banner State In
tho work of educating the colored people,
there being % 900 eolored children under in.
.N. lA. A h. Ia a.
The white and coiored ehiidreS should f be S eIu
Gated; yet those who attempted to educate
then, or teach them, were prosecuted in tho
many, too, who, at first, would not, In the
remotest degree, countenance the schools, who
now have sole charge Of colored schools, and
iabored zealously to sustain and make them
useful to the colorcd people. The Intelligence
OF the colored representatives. OF this State
duct and styie Of orstory was better nh" Than he
had expected to witness among them.
In South Carolina the General found a
representatives and there were more persons
hanging around, and consequently more ex-
eitement. fine. large school-housc had been
accommodating from eight hundred to one
thousand children. Here the negroes were
literally treated to threats. One man threat
they did not vote with him; but the colored
people who laborcd for him were not dumb,
that il he did not vote with them they Would
not pick his cotton. The colored men In that
section were frequently the subject OF such
To illustrate the feeling that now prevails
IN that State, Gen. Howard related + coinci-
dence that came under his personal obserya-
tlon. As he was travelling on the cars he was
informed of a Senator who had spit In the
mouth OF man because he was OF bright
color and claimed to be = white man. After
he arrived al Columbia this same Senator
visited him, and he aoon ascertained that he
was very staunch Union man, and that his
informant had wilinlly trsdueed his character.
iants. There the colored Sabbath schools
were well attended. The children were quite
questions. Atlanta had been rebuilt and was
Increasing. II vas now the capital OF the |
state, and was quite prosperous.
ton OF teachers from all parts OF the country |
Senator Foote addressed them In the forenoon
and the deneral In the evening. The perse-
cution OF white Union men and negroes in |
some counties of this State he represented as |
cruel and persistent. Gen. Gillem's authority |
lived In terror and dared not go to sleep at
night without having the servants armed and
on the lookout to protect their lives.
The next Sabbath Den. Howard passed In
Nlcksburg, Miss, and again no visited Sab
bath schools. He did not speak very natter.
peared to be deM oralized and depraycd. The
Distriet Commander was doing All he could
20 check the lswlessIess prevailing IN that
succeed Ing. The planters In ot.rr parts of
Mississippi represented that the colored peo-
pie were doing remarkably well, and were
laboring faithfully, BucceBsfully anl content
eddy for their employers:
At New Orleans the General saw something
new to hm-a Democratic Seymour and Blair
club, composed OF negroes, and witnessed a
presentation MI de to them OF u Dag bearing
the nsaes Of Seymour and Blair. The orator
grOes that they should have their quota of
offices, and not be put of with couple OF In
signideant offices as the radical csrpet-bag.
gers had put them off with
He then proceeded to Galveston, Texas
misrepresented by the late invention, and yet
lie had heard OF many desperate acts OF law
iessness. Nearly every person had some dcs-
perate encounter OF HIS own to relate to him
lie believed that the great mass of the
Southern people were honest and well-mean-
ing, but were mised by the old Southern lead
ers, who had determLncd upon regaining the
hazards. In the opinion Of The speaker vot.
ing alone would not cure these evils, but what
they needed In the South was well-c conducted
public press, and fearless, outspoken men,
who could convey and impress the idea upon
all classes OF people that all public measures
should be feSriGssiy discussed before the PEG;
dwell with great stress WAS emigration from
the North to the South. Such eommngllng
would not however, advise single families to
from ton TO Rfty, The audience room was
well filled with attentive listeners, who APP
peared to take deep interest In the lecture
rs given by General Howard.
ASSAULT ON DHrECTIvE MCDEvITT.-On
Monday last, while Detective McDeyitt was
on business In Richmond, he was approached
by Butt Riley, man well yersed in the manly
art of sci -delcnce, and well known In p, H.
circles, who made demonstration towards
MIR, McDeyitt that did not leave 4 doubt that
he was bent on having him, and he charged
Mr.. McDevitt with showing up a man named
John Logan, n pail of his, whom he arrested
on n charge of having burglariously entered
MIR. Whitney's wood and coal yard ofice In
this city, some time since. On that occasion
Logsn'a picture was taken and he was re.
quired to leave the city,
When Riley came at McDeyitt, the latter
drew his revolver, when Riley remarked that
no was not prepared to fight that way, and
retired. lie soon returned with a number of
his pals; but as Mr.. McDeyitt did not appear
on the scene no harm was done any one. Yes.
terday McDevitt returned returned home with
\ sound body, aud Is looking AS well as ever.