The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1869-06-17

he Radicals are shouting them

The Radicals are shouting them
selves hoarse over their late victory i'll
washington efty,s Tie Correspondent
of khe New y ok Wprld gives the
foHowids, I9lichN win serve to show
the meas b which heir proud vie
tory was won:
Out Of 10000 population, Wash
ington City numbers at least 10000
blacks and 10000 carpet-baggers who
lead them and share overy element of
their degradation except ignorance
Of these $4,000 negroes at least 81, ,090
are former slaves. Of''the $1,000 fol-
mer slaves. at least 10000 are of the
elass ztllAty IN ll1aEsz Of lseaee zweEszeati=s
ed field-hands-negroes who worked
in the fields. lived among themselves,
and did not-pass that lazy ordeal OF
house-seryice which nlellows the dar-
key into an inoffeRsiYe, quiet, dutiful
animal. OF this 10000 field hands, at
least fonf-fiftls have drifted into tliis
unhappy city IN the wake of the Fed
Beral armies, and havezcome1 from all,
parts of Virginia, Maryland and the
Carolinas,i being the, worst of their
race, whom the advent, of peace en-
tailed upon the best government the
world ever saw as wards, !" political
pets and 'yiriiel soters.f1 .s'dfass-a 10
Asto the voting population living
across the canal, where the negroes
most do eongregate, the same CORES
pondent says:i1aT 20 .o3ifa2 SO 81,
Es'How these Swretches- women
and chill .ren-liye is exteriorly mys-
terry. They toll not. neither do they
spin, except round a corner and down
a cellar when an officer rapproacfles.4
AT all hours of!the day they are to be
seen hanging out, OF windows, squat
ting on door-steps, lolling at corners
everywhere but at any work. There
is really no work done over in their
settiementsa iThe groggery. is the ON
ly business pursued, and for eyery,
fumseller here are about one hundred
steady. customers Yet the wretches
live well they are fat. Sleek, oily, and
wear more and better clothes than
white folks wf1oswerk atmanual labes.
find il, possible to buy for themselves
and their children. You can ,be in
formed how they get along bv asking
any police aofficer,if or any resident
whose house is sisouthef the ieanal, OF.
any farmer whose acres skirt the op-
,posite Potomac, shore. These,negroes.
steal, and only steal, Except murder
ing) and that continually. George
Truman, the Maryland negro, hanged
at Frederick for murder, May 2S,
stole the preachers ,pocket-handker-
chief while engaged in prayer with
him the night before his execution
Stealing and lying ale as as8fIatuFal to
negroes as water to fist George TrU-
man, whether as murderer or thief.
has ten thousand superiors in, either
respect surviving him in w Washington
City, Citizens dry their clothes on
top of their houses here in order to-
stop tue, negroes from stealing them,
".These people, here at, least, have
no idea of social morality. Every
black woman on the Island, with only
such exceptions as age and sickness
make, prostitutes herself gratuiteusly
to every solicitor, out.of mere love of
Inst. The men are only less bad be-
cause the black women desert them
in favoso their white paramours, of
whom there are plenty. 4 These me-
groes,, irrespective Of. sex herd assam
1mals. Marriage is not even a name
among them. sWife' IN nesaiis d woman,
sar, dat / took up wild down iheW Wer-
ginHyI when de army moved Off y The
children, all knoWi their smotheos, but
no cliild has yet been found. on the
Island proverbialiyI Wise enough to-
know its aoWn fatAei.e4As aiwliole,
these negroes are 'a mass of. thieves
murderers and bawds, the lowest Of
the low, and the. yilest of the vile !.
they .onlyneedaa years residence to-
npllifyl will, their ballots the votes of
W. NJ. Corcoran, Montgomery Blair
Caleb Gushing, or any other Citizen
+. 10 ao;4eBight septinaentsasi.4 PEEL ..