The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1868-11-27
intellect and customs of men, has pro-

duced its ravages with these emigrants.
The social condition of the people is
difficult to understand fully. There
is a certain kind of influence here
among the wealthy class which they
have brought with them from their
native places. Texas produces none
ofit--it is all imported. The rebels
are sour, diseontented and al
most Respondent over their condition
They think the Government has pun
ished them too sorely; many OF them
would have preferred confiscation
6ne, imprisonment--almost anything
to the negro Governments, as they
call them. 1 am decidedly of the
opinion that the Government has erred
in all this. The negroes of the Gul
States, the most corrupt and worst
class, (for such only were sold here
before the war; are but very sorry
material for building civil Govern
ments out of.
Last night l went up to the State
House to witness great jollifcatior
over the election of General Grant,
There was torch-light procession
fireworks and the exuberant outflow.
ing of joyous exultation. But very
few white men were in the procession
Several speakers of both races were
out. The white were of a class evi
IDENTIFY who arc "Mosesing" downhere
and have an eye ultimately to the
main prize. One negro only spoke at
any length, and made the best speech
of the evening Some said very good
things and some very foolish ones
The whole thing passed off without
making other than a disagreeable i'm.
preston on my mind. This was
doubtless much more than a fair speci
men of negro capability and capacity,
andI pronounce the mass entirely unfit
for self government. What is to be
done with these people? God only
knows. They present the most diff.
cult problem the nation has ever un-
dertaken to solve. There is that
deadly snimosity existing here toward
the negro on the part of the whites,
(and the negroes fully return it, } which
will never be erased from the present
generation. The negroes 60 armed
openly everywhere, and SO do the
whites; ready upon the very slight
est provocation to take each others
lives, and nothing but the presence Of
the military holds them in check.
Withdraw the military and the coun-
try will be deluged in blood. Now,
that the election is over, matters may
undergo change. Passions may sub
side, and q better state of things pre-
vail. The gravsst difficulties have
presented themselves to the military
commanders here. am of the opin-
ion that they have done the best that
could have been done under the cir
General Reynolds "a
man Of very sound judgment, and of a
high order of administrative ability
has carried on this government with
great good sense and has been emi-
nently successful, when all things are
known and considered. To work with
the material he has had to employ, and
protect, and keep going 9 kind of
quasi civil government, which could
'nly live moment by being upheld
,y the military to keep these people
Is far as possible from numbering each
,ther, has been a most diflicult task,
and one of which / think he has well
acquitted himself, from first to last.
General Candy succeeds him,
md he too, doubt not, will do all he
IAN for the good of the people, with
,ut respect to race or color, but fear
he will meet with difficulties for which
10 will hardly be prepared, yet much
rood may be expected from his great
administrative ability aud his known
mpartiality. Isuppose he issent here
,nly because his rank in the army is
Ibove that of General Reynolds, and
antilles him to this command, now, l
hink the most important belonging
o the service.
The limits of this letter will not al /
ow me to say more about the coun-
ry, but l may find time during the
winter to write you again . continue
ion Of my observations, views and
pinions of the country.
n. B. WALKER.