The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-09-23

I
Having published Ga part Of the evi
denee of Tarbell, the manager-in-chief o
the Radical forces, before the Reconstruc
ton Committee to-discredit our people
we viii now reproduce a statement direct
ly the reverse of which he made, ursde
oath before committee of Congress In
1866.
In the following affidavit he vindicateC
the Southern whites from the aspersioni
of their traducers and in doing so, ht
took occasion to inform the Committee
that the people of the North greatly over
rated ''the character and capacity of the
plantation negro" and solemnly assever
ated that time" sCould bring disappoint
Hae1lt 10 the 'tmost ardent believer IN The
capacity Of the race for improvement.
We viii quote from the report of the
Joint Committee on Reconstruction print
ed by order of Congress, p. 1855:
John (Jonathan) Tarbell sworn and
examined:
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i think the intelligent classes. the plant
ers and educated classes. accept the situation
l will say that / never allowed any con-
versation with Southern gentleman TO
close without telling him that was a Yam
kee aRd black Republican,, and never from
first to last received anything like an dDronf
or fnafoltteness. My frankness al ways drew
frankless in return-a smile and pleasant
remark. They were can
wasting what obligations they owed to the
freedmen in the way of education and i'm
provenent recognizing and taking the
grouni chat now that they toere free The bet
ter the they soere educated the better IdbOrers
they sceuid be.
There was much more of this kind of
evidence embraced in the affidavit. But
the following with which we will conclude
for the present, is clincher:
1t is also my impression that many people
in the north very greatly 0cerrate the present
character and capacity Of the plantation negro,
as t0eH as his capacity for future Improvement.
thihE time soiu sh0a0 that the most ardent in
The north eciH be greatly disappointed in The i'm
pT0UeDaent Of these negroes, ereR under the most
JdU0TdbLe circumstances. / wish also To add.
judging from my travels in these three
States, that these reports of outrages upon
northern settlers, are quite exceptional cases,
and exaggerated, If not altogether false, and
and that all these statementsin the newspa-
pers of outrages upon the blacks and upon
settlers from the north, / think, do The edu-
Gated people of the South gerry great injustice.
There are, no doubt. disloyal and disor lerly
persons in the South, but it is an entire mis-
take to apply these terms to whole people.
t00atld as soon tfdreI alone, GeldrDaed, through
the South as through the North. The South
left is not at all the South I hear aud read
about in the North. Prom the sentiment /
hear in the north, / would scarcely recog-
nize the people l saw, and, except their pol
itics, liked SO well. I haze entire faith that
the better classes friendly to the negroes, and
that through his feeling, and the laws OF
capital and labor, the relations of these
classes will settle down together on terms eQtait
able and just to both L 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 por-
ton of the country.