New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-07

in time for when they got the power the negro laws
would be repealed that the Fourteenth ana ntGehth
Amendments would be declared unc0nsuIu,iiHnttlI
and that Government could enforce them only DI
by the bayonet He had gOno into tho waI 10 good
faith and he was willing to try 1T again. 9uom MaS
the substance of the interview, and the Dto O4V"u
was evidently pleased to hear him give mo nus
THE NIGER. .,,
At another place in Georgia i had cor nrlsaittn
with prominent gentleman who was tui i; 10
the North who is we'll informed IN nloSl SlIleS re-
latng to Northern life and institutions, anu VINO nov
only is man Of high culture and OF N@Ieu accom-
plshments but he is also the PIeslde' ~ Goloso
where young men of the best Southern Iannhes siS
educated. He said that he opposed SECESSION WIN
all the power he possessed, he told bs people ths'e
they would bring down iTreTlsvnoe rum ,n es nv
folly could be greater and he became SO obnoxious
as to be in danger of personal violence; DuG Wheh
the war commenced he went with ms people ana uil
all he could 70 secure final TGS n % tbe
loan, but he sold the bonds ior golu WhG th MI
credit was good and made money, no" much ne leu, t4
not say but Judged conSueraDiidd hoo "a wise
il would have been well, but the trustees had IaIIh
i'm the bonds and large surplus tunu was iosI nc
r;gbts lad 6ren decided forever and the South WAS
powerless to resist but tho Northern peoPlo
ought to consider the condition they were ~.
for they were of the race and language; thelI
interests were and must be one, aud great questions
connected with the advance OF clyllzation WIZ Jo
arising and their united and best eorts werS te
handed OF tho new relation between the whltSs
and the blacks in the South Northern people COulu
have no idea if they had they would not orce uIn a
them odious laws and measures deeIaulng 70 oa
whole Anglo-SaXon race, and no tongue ana no l'en
Id relate the decentralization and distress arising
from the attempt to give the freedmen onGoS anu 70
place those who were their slaves hoV oliS ~ ~
stion OF equality but Of superiority =, -, II,
The President said that he Dought an Tue snPp''o
needed for his family of wife ana TWO fd o cn, ".
Savannah at whole prices. at an outlay Vl S2V ~,
ounum-pot because so much was used, but because
LARGE portion was stolen, almost before thelr eyes
The only remedy was to live IN constant Wall 49,
surrounded by an eyer-ygant Shey, Saa Va
could not do; still, some degree OF MatcnIui 10
absolutely necessary il they were TO live ~ an anu nc
mentioned that when flour was measured ous iot
making of biscuit either part OF we lV thi ~ o
bscuit would disappear before reaching tnSlr apie
and so of sugar coffee bacon and every other article
of food He kept one cOlOred man to WORK MS gar
a. n month before witnesses. for fear the TecelPb
would be denied, as had been the caSc ana tnough ~
fair supply of vegetables were raised IT, o"n n,ht
aud this Notwithstanding he @opJ dogs,
since of three thieves, two would suffer, tho
dogs to chase them, when a third would despoil tho
garden. Sir said he, it would make you cry,
ard i say this although am stranger TO you
within this hour; Won would shed tears could you
see how | am robbed IN my own mousse see, no" my
affairs are conducted. Nor Is there any belp' eK-
cent TO bring my wife 70 the washtub and tO the
cOok-stove, which will not do, although She knows
how TO work aud can get a good ana elegant heai :
Int She is educated and accomplished, and with me
she has made the tour of the North and visited tho
chief cities and points of interest IN Europe tel
20 10 the lecture-room positively hungry. All can
do il 10 submit 10 this hourly aud daily torture, Ike
Prometheus chained 10 the rock And now You
having the power. are INJECTING upon MS the al
dftional iguominy Of making us bow tn our slaves
by putting them in offices OF power and trust 10
ANYTHING but this Spare MS this last bitterness tlls
ex0uisite agony. We do not want 10 commit suicide
bnt instead come down and cut our throats' cut the
threats OF our wives and little ones. however much
we love them and let this misery end. might go
North and live in peace among respectable people
and I'm some city aud do well. for can make money
anywhere except among robbers; but We dread the
climate aud il Is not onr home, The question now
is whittier shall fly Tor Whichever way turh' Is
niger" -. -.
At Union Point | met q gentleman from South
Western Georgia who wanted 10 know why it was
tIaf Northern men do not come South He said that
uhcru he lived land could be had near the county
scat for SlO m acre that with good cultivation
acre, worth at least 600 that there was abundant
range for cattle and free FOR all that butter was -
cents pound that there were schools stores ana
self need not work. for negro labor Is cheap And lie
assured me that decent family interested IN good
society and IN improvement, would so To speak bs
Why do they 90 West and endure all the horrors OF
new country when there are such advantages IN the
In the West under the Homestead free at 81 70
acre that en- grafton was so rapid the country soon
ceased 10 be new; that railroads followed; that
churches, schools. and villages, were hardly out OF
SIGHT that work was honorable and education uni
versIl and that much more was made on the rise IN
the price OF the land than by tho crops grown on H.
This and moro related, when he exclaimed, These
are the kind Of people We want, and We never VIII
flourish until We nave them"
Another gentleman was listening he was young,
ambitions active, educated IL the irc-catcrs Of
South Carolina, and well known, and he FASTENED 70
bring prOof.of the advantages Northern men VIII
have. He was running a plantation ncay Atlanta
with 30 freedmen, who were doing much better than
when they were slaves emancipation had been q
blessed thing and he working land 80 poor that
h., rot tlOUulIt 1 a
war Each of these freedmen WIS worth to him, aud
he repeated II several times. $1,000 each, which was
more than such property ever was worth. for faIn-
lies had to be supported and now paying them $50
and Tatons year, he was not liable for losses by
death or sickness. In short, was to understand
that the present planting interest has all the adyan
tagcs which once belonged 10 Slavery, while IL is
free from any Of its responsibilities.
The Southern people sympathze with the blacks,
and wish them well, but they want them To remain
inferior and il they do 40, and if there is plenty
for both there is no kind of trouble. find that
those rObberies and Outrages not connected with
politics have been where the soil is poor, and where
1t does not produce enough for both; and may add
that scOundrels the natural growth Of poor land
Another great difficulty arises from the ignorance
incompetence and imprOyidence of the blacks. The
only work they do well IS IN the cotton field. They
do not generally their money nor do they have
much to save, though there are notable exceptions
The colorcd women have abandoned the fields TO n
great extent and not knowing what Homework is,
they are idle and spend all they get from their
husbands aud from the men, IN dress, and some
times rs many twenty or thirty Will DO seen
fishing along tho banks Of a river. North
ern women living at theISouth are heartily dis
gusted with eolored help. for they can only make
those horrid lard biscuit seed tick coffee, and fry
bacon rs hard board, and il is necessary keep
KEYS and TO be on the close watch; still they wash
and iron tOlerably well. Nor the Southern white
women much better housewives. l have seen the
laHdady of hotel sit day after day IN the parlOr
trying TO play on the piano and she could not make
two notes chord while her negro women were in the
kitchen cutting aud soaring, and tho food which was
presented 50 Intolerable, that one man know OF
conld not swallow It, in which case only thngcan
be done. Still there are some Southern wumen who
are the best housewives in the world but tboy belong
10 the better class and 1t is q general fact that