Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-02-19
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kansas and Mississippi are able TO engsg'
again in the cultivation OF cotton anc
hardly factor is able to help them dC
it, if be desired. Consequently, the iargt
mass OF the negroes have to choose De-
tween starvation, plundering and emf
gration-the last Of which Jacobinism
breads far more than it cares for either o.
the other results, well knowing that i
an hundred thousand hungry negroes are
poured into the Northern States, to come
in competition with white lahonr, there
Will be such an uprising Of the people
against J Jacobinism as the country has
never witnessed against any other rae
tion.
At this crisis, when the dangers Of
emancipation and negro suffrage are as
sumiDg huge and charming proportions,
the negro Bureau at Washington steps
forward with a proposition TO the plant
els, which, for cool and shameless ef-
froutsry, is unparalleled. It's order Is IN
tended " to relieve the extreme want oe-
casioned by freedmen being without en-
pIcyment," through the inability Of
planters to furnish supplies. e-E
The proposals of the Commissioner do
no. pretend to be made in the interest of
of the planter. They sre distinctly
stated to be made "sClsly for thep,Tposc
of securing employment 20 he freedmen,
5y enabling the planter 70 furnish hem
lCith su5sisteRce."
To effect this, the Bureau offers to
/ furnish supplies of provisions to the
planter, requiring him, in consideration
| Of these advances, to guarantee the sup
port aud sgages too of the destitute freed
men for the whole year.
The "Buresu Of Refugees, Freedmen
and Abandoned Lands" has no longer
any refugees to take care OF, and there
remain in its care only few abandoned
estates. 1t has become almost exclu-
sively a protector and alms-house for
regroes. The Government, without any
Constitutional power to do so, assumed
the care OF the freedmen, and undertook
TO provide them work, to educate their
children and even adults, to make lsbouT-
contracts for them, and TO be their cham
pion in all controversies with white
men. 1t was an attempt TO make priv
iIeged class out Of the lowest stratum Of
humanity; TO compel the payment to
them Of exoTbitant wages, to encourage
them in idIeness, and exempt them from
the ordinary civil and eriminsl Jurisdie
tioUs of the country. 1t undertook to
provide for their dsstitution by public
aims: and robbed them and the planter
alike by the cotton-tax, TO procure the
means for furnishing the aims. PropOs-
ing 10 reiinquish the cotton-tax, 1t casts
about TO see how it may assess the aims
upon the Southern States or people; and,
in the language of the Commercial BUI-
letin,o this city, it proposes to comply
with the national undertaking on behalf
Of destitute freedmen, by employing the
yIapter TO take the risk Of the tEansac-
ton" That very able journal, in an
article written by WILLIAM NJ. BUR
WELL, says:
But what conditions does the Bureau
DrOpOse? The planter must give what
Is called, under the common law, penal
tond. with security thereon in the sum
of $500 for every twenty freedmen em-
plcyet, conditioned to reimburse TO the
Bureau. before the expiration of said
year, The sui cost Of such supplies from
The proceeds Of the crops, or other pro-
duets Of industry, Ia.sed by him, or from
the uovahies on the plHntatiou, used in
the cultivation Of the CROP"
"and that Immediately upon the ssle Of
said crops, 2 sufficient amount OF the
proceeds accruing therefrOm, to the foil
amount, II necessary, shall be turned
over to the proper officer of the B1reau,
in Equidation Of his just indebtedness for
the subsistence advanced
1t is moreover stipulated that, in a6-
djtion TO the proceeds of the crop, the
Bureau shall have tacit mortgage on
the whole personality of the planter on
the plantation. He further sipulates
and agrees that, should there still be q
baIaace due the Bureau after the pro-
ceeds Of the crop have been thus applied,
then, and in that event, the mOvables
aud other goods on the plantation shall
be ll&D4G LAGIClOIs.
The order contains another stipulation
To which we would call the attention of
factors. 1t il embodied in the following
extract: Aud he 1.-THE pianterl further
agrees that when said crops or other pre-
dDcts are prepared for market, that the
same, or his portion thereof, shalt be
sbiuped for sale, 10 such merchants as
nav be designated by the Bureau in the
CITY Of New 0rleSUs."
Under this provision the Bureaq will,
in common prudence, prefer such factors
as il shall be assured will carry out its
purposes and protect its interests. They
viii coz stitute a fsctOTage agency for the
Bursau. But what will be the situation
Of those factors who may be the present
sGepts Of the planter? What will be-
come o. the distances I'll Gpe them from
fbe nianter? Iis business viii Ge taken
fropi MIN and conferred, possibly, upon
the GoYernmRnt factors
The Bee saysi
We did not find it in our hearts, With
out reflection, to disabuse the pipds OF
our planting friends Of the notion some
| OF them at least mSy have entertained
! that the Government intended, by adopt
/ lFE llaS MEESAlcf ~ Dc VI SCI NAIC ~ btcffS'
| The one sided proposition of the Buresu
| Is patent however, upon the face OF the
/ circular, which hardly requires a second
reading to be convinced of its unfair and
| inadmissible conditions, and we shall be
greatly mistaken If plsnters generally
! do not decline its magnaninous offer,
I which is neither more nor less than ask
| ing the planter TO become q sort of COM
missary for the negro and an underwater
/ Of bis labor. The planter is asked to
4 take charge of the supplies thus gene
rously rendered him, after giving bond
! and security for his faithful agency, to
/ deal out from them the ratiOBs of the
negro, and, mird6ile dictul to insure the
result of his labor.
I
1t is perfectly evident that the stipula.
tion requiring bond and security and q
| lien upon the planters movablss,
amounts 10 an insurance by tbs latter of
! the negro's labor and against the casual
ties of The season, without having the
! means OF compelling the laborer to work.
To carry out these conditions involves
an espionage by Bureau agents over the
operations of our people which we do not
/ think could be tolerated by them, and
] =. tkarafarn Of OniDiOn that thaaa n fYa ~