The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1868-06-16


sion, as far as could observe, was, that the
press of the South was disposed, from selfish
motives, to cater to the old prejudices ; that
| it was not sufficiently bold and fearless in
| accepting and advocating the acceptance of
| the position.
| TARBELL TESTIFIES THAT THE CAPACITY
OF THE NEGRO is ovERATED IN THE
| NoRTH-GIvEs THE LIE TO REPORTED
| oUTRAGES ON THE NEGRo-sAYs THE
/ BETTER CLASSES OF RESIDENT WHITES
| ARE FRIENDLY TO THE NEGRO
| THINKS PROPER RELATIONS WILL BE
ESTABLISHED BETWEEN THE RACES.
/ 1t is also my impression that many people
in the North very greatly overrate the pres
ent character and capacity Of the plantation
| negro, as ,ceu as has capacity for future I'M
| pr0UeD'ent.s L think time aCiU Sheoc that the
| most ardent of the North toiU be greatly dis
appointed IN the improvement Of these negroes,
eUen under the most favorable circumstances
! wish also to add judging from my travels
in these three States, that these outrages
upon the colored people, of Ill treatment of
the Northern settlers, are quite exceptional
cases, and exaggerated, IL not altogether false,
| and that all these statements in the news
papers of outrages upon the blacks and upon
settlers from the North, | think, do the ed
acated people Of the South uery great injustice
There are no doubt disloyal and disorderly
persons in the South, but it is an entire mis-
take to apply these terms to whole people
1 lCOald as soon t1dcel alone, uRdrned, through
| the South as through the North. The South
L left is not the South hear and read about IN
the North. From the sentiment l hear in
the North, | would scarcely recognize the
/ people l saw, and, except their politics, liked
so we'll, 4 haze entire faith that the better
| classes are friendly to the negroes, and that
through this feeling, and the laws of capital
and labor, the relations of these classes Will
settle down together on terms equitable and
Just to both. / have also faith that when the
| North and South come to know each other
better their relations will be all that could
be desired. 1t is not for me to indicate the
means, but / believe the South can be made,
and will become, the loyal portion of the
country. as
Now, be it remembered, that all
this testimony was given under oath,
months after the passage of the re
pealed statutes, which Tarbell now
dwells upon to prove the unfriendli-
ness of the Southern whites to the
negro-and all that.
What is its purport p
1st. That the Southern white people
are true to their obligations to bear
faithful allegiance to the Government
of the United States.
I'd. That they desire, and invite
meritorious Northern men 10 settle
among them, and that such persons
are treated kindly and Hospitality.
Sd. That the Southern people have
evinced kind spirit toward the negro
and are willing to improve and edu
cate him, and to accord to him all his
, civil and political rights "except sui
frage," (and he might have added thai
the proposition to give him suffrage
had not been submitted, and has no
yet been, except as coupled with obi
GUS and despotic discrimination
against the whites
4th. That the Northern people ha(
greatly overestimated the capacity O
the negro for future Improvement.
1nasmuch as the Northern States
save, in exceptionable cases, have with
held suffrage from him, it is Difficult
to ascertain how high their estimate
of his capacity had been raised.
9th. That the Southern people hat
been provoked to sharp utterances oc
casionally, which afforded no evidence
of disloyalty, because they wer
prompted to it by the unmerited abus
of Northern malignants, and by tn
injustice practiced toward them b,
officers of the Freedmens' Bureau.
On the whole, Gen Tarbell's test
mony, given under the solemnity 0
an oath, and printed by order of Con
gress, comes in good time. We ar
: very much obliged to him for the ne
cessity which he has created for it
publication.
On the whole, Tarbell is good sub
ject, and we shall be compelled to re
turn to him.
NIL at Ease.
, / H,,,. e.;