Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1868-01-08
: VOLUME. X1xllI.-Eo. q :.
rho Reiqn of Terror in the South.

= We find the following itelegraphedi -
Washington to the New YorkfHerald:i 10 ,ii.'a
: One Of your travelling correspondents, who =,
has Just made an extensive tour of5Iouislana,i y
Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, North Carols
ma and South Carolina, represents theloondl-si'
ton of the freedmen as bheart-reDding In The
extreme. mall theecotton districtslof thIseIG
States the great.mass of:the freedmen ape'rottb
only omthe point of,starvation but possess "
scarcely. clothing 10 cover their''
!nhkedness. At most of the railway stat tiens'
many colored Children collection the arrival Il
of the trains and enter into competition with y
the famished swine and dogs for the possess
sion of the bones thrownby passepge ff.bm 70
the trains,ywhile scores Of lazy negroes cel-'.s
;lectabout the depots as spectators. IA. tiie2s
corn growing districts the prospects o. faai:'q
inc are not so near, and whites and Blacks ~
are on friendly terms. : He declares 'that-4 de-
negfoesare much more destitute than under
tieold slave regime. ln"many counties OFF,
these States the forests are filled with armed -
negroes who hunt game in isday time AND
make raids upon planters stock atnight. q.
reign Of terror is general inuppcr Eoaisiafa, Re
lower Mississippi andlthe cotton districts OF =
Georgia and. the Carolinasat The desutution,Hi
however, is not confined to the blacks. y Thou! =
sands Of sths1 white population have not J :
months provisions ahead, and no. money to = :
Law in q. supply. Many planters, who were
farseeng, provided q years supply for their /, /.
families, but the starving negroes have very
generally pillaged their smoke-houses and
eranaries and stripped them clean. The esti. -
mate ofthe number of persons Compiled from
statistics collected by the Executives Of the
States and others) whowill stasVe unless Com
gress provides some relief, is three, millions, -
:two-thrds Of whom are negroes This estl- y =
mate embraces Louisiana, Mississippi, Alaba-n. :.
ma, Georgia and tie 'Oarolinas. He has M z
estimate of the: cthern nunreconstructed States
Unless prompl action istakent to provide tor !,
the starving. freedmen and whites the pillag
ing of the Whites will become. general, the
latter will resist, and bloody conflict will !!
be the result Planters are generally alarm
ed and would leave the country could they 3,
raise the means to remove their families.
Hundreds are offering their homes for mere =
song. but can find no purchasers. Plansa-
tions that before the war commanded as hIgn
as fifty dollars per acre car-5e purchased ior'i
I five dollars peracre, so general is the terror
that reigns and the desire of the owners to
save their families from the outrages that-are
threatened by the negroes, unless aid comes
from the government or the people of the
North. On the way North, he witnessed o
striking illustration the effect Of Radical
teachings. AT Greensboro, N. O., a party OF
negro emigrants entered the cars. In the
party were two very pretty white girls. ln-a
yJcstigation resulted iinlcarning that they were Z
the daughters of an English gold miner in
Guilford county, N. c., and had voluntarily
left their homes as theasmistresses 'ot two
coal black negroes. They are destined toiVin-'
.cennes; 6Iud., and Xenia, Ohio. Much indig-
nation was manifested by 1.-The. white passen-i
/ gers, and threats of'7lyaching the negroes
j.Were INDUCED in, but noe carried out. a:a 3l.'