The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1868-04-02
The Freedmen's Bureau.


he government, and sums up the bene-
its derived from it as follows -
WHO dare say that the Southern nigs
ire not blessed race, 1t costs them no.
hing for clothing; nothing for medicine and
medical attendance; nothing for travelling
% and TO; nothing 10 carry on lawsuits
And tLen they have nothing to do but at
end political meetings and elections, as the
superior race; to sit in conventions. tol
make constitutions ai from SO TO so a
lay; to run for governors, members of Con-
rrcss, Assemblymen, Mayors, Aldermen,
, nd thnus ,nd minor Offices, and generally
to see TO il that The wh,te trash are kept
al work making money to pay the taxes to
keep the State machinery running"
Thus eloquently does the Democrat
deliver itself
Now, that kind of talk will do very
well for the majority Of the Democratic
party, because they don't know any bet
ter, and are not sufficiently intelligent to
enable them to be taught otherwise.
Here are a few sentences which are
amply sufficient, just because found in
the Monroe Bible" to convince its sub
scribers, that the Freedmen's Bureau is
an iniquitous institution, absorbing twelve
millions, perhaps more, of the public mo
ney, for the express purpose of oppresslne
the heroic statesman; the real chivalry
of the South, and keeping the |" "nies +"
in idlcns,s at from ten to twenty dollars
per day.
shall not attempt to convince I Dem
ocrat that this is not the object of the
Freedmcn's Bureau, for if / did | should,
without doubt, miserably fail. Their
faith is SO great in the Editor of the
+" Democrat" and his Copperhcadism.
that they would but hug his paper the
closer to their bosoms and trcmble for
the man who dared to disbelieve.
The real truth of this matter though.
i: may be we'll to state, is a little differ.
ent from the manner in which the " Dcm.
ocrst" has it, The Freedmen's Bureau
dispenses the necessaries Of life, food
clothing, &c, alike to whites and negroes
and from q report made recently by Gen
Howard, Chief Of the Freedmen's Bu
reau, aud whose integrity is uudOubted
il will be found that the number of white:
who claim it. protection, very greatly eI'
ceed, the number of Negroes.
This is Truth, what the " Democrat ,
may say to the contrary, Notwithstanding
and if the Editor of that paper will take
the trouble to hunt up said report, he
will find it so.
Any one with judgment, who ha,
studied Southern institutions, can readily
understand this, and will at once believe
it. Previous to tho breaking out Of the
Rebellion, there were four classes in the
South. The wealthy whites, who owned
plantations, and never worked any. Then
class of whites. who owned no property,
but were employed as overscers, foremen
in shops, or mechanic. of some kind
the negroes, and, lastly, the poor whites,
or clay eaters.
The least or lowest class, unable, or
rather unwilling, to provide for themselves
in times of prosperity, came at once to
the Bureau for supplies. The middle
grade Of whites, able always to help them
selves, do so now, and some of them are
building up fortunes on the ruins of their
former employers The wealthy, unable
to help themselves, and losing every
thing by the Rebellion, now come, side
by side, and gladly, too, with their for
mer slaves to receive food and clothing
from the Freedmen's Bureau.
No more jealous supporters Of the
Bureau will be found than the whites
of the South, which is proof positive that
it is aiding them more than the negro.
Now, where does the Editor of the
" Democrat stand! He would deny
the necessarics of life to the whites, Just
because some of the negroes are also bene-
fitted. If he were to denounce Congress,
in the South, for continuing the Bureau,
both whites aud blacks would unite in
kicking such a contemplate, narrow
minded, short sighted, penurious mortal
out of existence. For the sake of hi.
bones, we advise him to stay here in
Monroe County, where Ignorance and
Corrupt Democracy are fashionable, and
he fuds people, near enough his own
level, to appreciate him. OBSERVER.