Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-08-28


Correspondence Of the Ohio Statesman.l
Ihave just received the following letter
from friend In the southern part of this
State, who has been In Florida ever since
the close OF the war. It speaks for itself in
confirmation of the fact of the curse of
Negro and Freedmen Bureau rule over that
once fair land:
"DEAR SIR: On the 22d of last February
left Jacksonville. Florida, for my home
mencement of the war. How numerous
the changes since left /! Many dead whom
will never see more! The bones of many
once loved school mate, with whom I
delighted to study or play, now moulder
on the fields of the late cruel conflict! A
war that might and would have been pre-
vented had it not been for Abolition malig-
nifty and Yankee cupidity.
Changes are still going on in this COM
munity-changes for the better-changes
from Radicalism to righteousness. Many
of dur neighbors who have heretofore
voted the Radical ticket, are changed in
views and promise to cast their suffrage for
Seymour and Blair. Our hopes of ma
tional Democratic triumph, at the ap-r
preaching election, are strong, and bright.
ening daily. We must have the power, or
our country is ruined. We will have 1t, If
we work. See what our sister State of
Kentucky has done. Let us strive to walk
in her footsteps. 1Hi2 .iss7Tft 3''s
lived long enough in the South to know
the curse OF Radical rule. It's carpet-bag-
lists are most execrable pack of scoun-
drels. In person, they are fops-in busi-
ness, thieves-in religion, hypocrites, and
In politics, tyrants. The sub-agents of the
Freedmen's Bureau are of similar ilk
| They tutor the negroes and soon bring
them to be as great adopts of the devil as
themselves. t,i sa f n. "1 ".e
To keep up these Satanic agencies, the
laboring men of the North are GENEROUSLY
taxed, and churches are visited by canting
priests-all is done in the sacred name of
patriotism and piety, but really to perpet-
uate the rule of the party now in power!
No man, not totally lost to all the tender
instincts of humanity, can see what have
seen, and know what know of the out
\ RACES of radicalism in the Southern States,
and not detest it as the enemy of all equity,
Justice, peace and order.
| After being mustered out of service in
August, 1865, was under the employ of
Major Beach as inspector and shipper of
cattle for the Government in the Depart
ment of the South, which included three
of the Gulf States. travelled much and
consequently had favorable opportunity
for seeing, as well as hearing, how things
were working under the rule of the re-
constructing agents of Congress. We found
the country planters more civil and COM
mum icative than the citizens of the towns
and villages. Tho former were free to
complain of the treatment they received
from the negroes who were instigated to,
or protected in, their insolence by neigh
boring white fanatics from the North as
pseudo -politico, religious Institution or So
ciety. Black men, under the direction Of
these white rascals, would come and kill
their hogs, cattle, chickens, &C., steal their
corn, potatoes, fruit and everything else
they could lay their hands on and were
able to carry of Did the planter dare de-
fend his property he was shot down or
mobbed, and no possible redress could be
obtained; for the civil law was totally in
operative in presence of the military
Thus there was no encouragement to work
when the little shey did raise by the sweat
of their brow was torn from them with inn
punity by the had of ''loilty." -. 49,.
1 will state case of this kind that oc-
CURED on the st. Johns river, only a little
over two miles from where 1 lived. Here
there lived family by the name of Ham
mel. Mr.. II. had been the Captain of a
Negro company during the war and fought
for the Union. At the close of the war he
settled in Florida. About the first of last
October, when he was absent from home,
three big negroes went to his field, dug up
and took possession of all his sweet pota-
toes. Mrs. Hammel went out and remon-
strated with them--assuring them that it
they would leave the potatoes till her hus-
bands return that he would freely divide
with them. But no-they carried off the
potatoes, and one of them beat, and other
,oise abused the poor lone woman in way
too shocking to. relate, Mr.. 81. being in
formed of matters as soon as he returned,
was Justly enraged--went to the " Bureau"
within whose august jurisdiction this out
rage had been perpetrated, and complained.
A mock court of inquiry was convened.
Cuffes confessed. White agents bailed them
all out of jail-they were set free to go
where they pleased = nothing more
was said or done about r, it
up to the time left, nor would there ever
be, for if the Bureau was to punish all
such depredators, the yegroes would regard
these agents of Government with distrust
and hatred, and so uote as to shear them of
po,oer. Hence they wink at all such crimes
lest their well-stuffed carpet bags might
undergo sudden depletion. .frr
But it would require volumes, rather
than pages, to hold even the most succinct
detail of Radical villainy daily perpetrated
by blacks and cruel, mean, avaricious
whites, on the innocent citizens of this once
lovely but now desolate land. How long,
o, how long, will the good people of the
North endure it? ,sfE@ .E,lcs s-s-
| Let any who doubt this account get the
Savannah Daily Ne,os and Herald, and they
will see have exaggerated nothing.
Your friend, NJ. h. B."
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ssCommissioner Guilds Expose
[Correspondence Of the Ohio Statesman j
have read with most intense interest
and no little Indignation, the statement OF
Commissioner Ould on the exchange OF