New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-07-26

and collision the different islands proclaim liberty
thing but 10 maintain under proper restraints
OF law TO allow emancipation to bring forth It's egs
ns o1r %at the Wisdom n Of France eo"d ho ye
True go slaves had been freed but Instructions
fruits. Emancipation seemed to be only q consuming
curse to these islands and France weared out by the
late, solemny decreed Reimbursement.
BRITISH EMANCIPATION.
In abolishing slavery the English Government found
itself beset with difficulties which IL attempted TO over
come by adopting system OF semlslayeTy appehne
ship III Is generally understood that this was the sciDe
of Lord BrOugbam WlberfOrce, ClarksOn, ana others
had given years of thought and effort TO the abolition
of the slave trade and that emancipation 1se was
fixed fact, the combined wisdom OF English statesmen,
Pit, Fox, Burke, ana others, agreed upon apPrenct
ship il exploded however, before the prescribed term OF
years which 1t to run had expired In other words,
the entire scheme failure.
such we're the lights Gen. Howard had before him for
his aAidance.
The emancipation problem in Russia was, in many
important respects different from ours and he could get
hints that quarter to serve him. The failures OF
the past before him. and as he Thought the causes
Of them He could get but little consolation IRON those
sources so he addressed himself boldly TO the work be
fore him from standpoint. The impulses OF free
dom and progress were controlling the national mind
and trusting these impulses he went to work work
the principle that only ideas save races III the ne.
oes to be saved and were TO Denent VA u
Bile citizens. His first attempts therefore we're 10 pre-
understand that charity should be considered odous by
them that they should work to support themselves ana
families, and that they should he educated. -
The Bureau the close of the war, was the represent
afvc At the south of the best ideas of the country
noting peace and Ordaining justice What it accom-
pished in this respect exceeded the expectations VI i
most sangulne advocates.
ored race, and of the inspiration that prompted Gen
Howards plans that not one insurrection not one muir
dc has occurred on part Of the negroes In revenge
for two,centIres of slavery Yet the races have
lived side by side in the same neghDOrh0Ods, looking III
each others ewes while this wonderful transformation
has been going on What different spectacle presents
itself the blOOddrenched sands OF the Ahtles uhutr
French rule Ours was the substitution OF moral loi
It may be well to state in this connection that it was
i'm freedmen's court that coIbred persons first adj
mitted to testify any OF the late Slave states To-day
al the courts are ppm 70 aptn and assis in making
laws for those courts. ,
Not potent has been the influence Of the Bureau on
the Dor question At the close Of the famine looked
the south In the face There was cry for bread III the
Southern country. 1t was sneerngy said by the enc
mics of emancipation that the negro would not labor
satisfied by the contracts would be enforced
that Justice would be administered, with words OF en-
WORK The battle powed. tramped fields of the South
yielded wealth Of production that seemed not the result
of human labor but il earth had again grown quick
With Gods creating breath" The crops at the South
have been larger proportOnay since the war than at
p article by Sidney Andrews in the February number
OF The 0d and Nec makes the following concise anu
truthful statement of the workings OF the Bureau;
or the thousand thngs that The Burraa h uSne no b d a
i from robbery and Herecutoa enforced respect, the neOs
rights Instructed all The Pegle II @sss S ngbborbooi 9n,rre
brought ameab relations between employer and com
forte .ouowf raised the dosnheal corrected pa habits
whe and blacks restored oosr Hs,9e S0a sa ir To o
educational movements gave sancu 70 te i ,i an an
labor strengthened men and women ia gSc' @ 70 e1s &
owners brough, nce broke bands Of over
class-rue led bitter hearts INTO bnght VAS
shmd strong charity and forgiveness promulgated TIE neH
doctrine Of equal rights de.irosed The seed, S Ru' sn Of
society carried TIE light Of the Norm IIo sAS % E I FEEL
ng % tsCbt The gospel Of forherahce encouraged human
@ ,ribud the gsneroas charities benevolent upheld
al huntrod more, shall tell what pen shall ever
These are warm and generous words. They are eo-
quent. But the facts they state are stu more eloquent
''i'i 1t i HAS THE BUREAU BEEN SUGGEST
Success The world can point to nothing like it in all
the history of emancipation thirteen millions Of dol
Ming his scheme has encountered the btterest oppos
ton and the most unreenting hate seofied ar IKE
times in the house Of its friends apologized for rather
defended yet with God ON its side the Feednes
Bureau has triumphed; civilization has received new
impulse. and the friends of humanity may well rejoice
n M %T5f GS S HtG into history While
the unfounded accusations brought against VIII be tO
MOI When the passions Of men subside, and when the
dust OF time has well fallen, then comes the hour of
calmer Judgment. Manytongued scandal has the brief
Alarei BY taper cleaning bright,
s sos Da1,' , &ST f a. d to emptv air.
Evil is quickly forgotten; truth alone is abiding.
In conclusion, the Committee find on the whole case,
that Commissioner has been devoted honest ana
able public The Committee find that his great
icaly and most successfully. II there he anything in
the conduct of the affairs of the Bureau which could eX
cite suspicion in the breast Of partisan or personal
hate owing the fact that Gen Howard, conscious
OF his purity, intent his great work has never
stopped TO think of the appearances which men Ofiess
conscious integrity much more carefully regard .
Who the inventor DstlgatOr or these charges IL is
moi the mirpOse OF the Committee TO inquire MI.
Wood as has already been stated diSclams all personal
sbility them The evidence which he addced
was not evidence tending TO establish the accusation,
but was nearly all Of il, merely experimental IN
oury person calling the witness INTO the detd OF
transactions of which he seemed to have neither ac-
curate knowledge information. While the eAalnlna-
ton was going on with closed doors, under pledge OF
secrecy imposed the Committee counsel, and parties
testimony spread extensively through the country,
most Injurious Gen. Howard, and utterly without sup
mort in the evidence. Ii Is not in the power OF the Com
mttee or the House repair this injustice, or 10 COM
pensate this faithful public officer Tor the ihdgmy
anxiety and expense which his defense entaed upon
him All that is in power is 10 recommend to the
House the passage Of the following res0lutoas express
ing opinion the whole ana an act Ol justice
TO a faithful and distinguished public servant
Resoget That the policy pnrsnei D! me Sna s"'ts i
civil provide for them education 10 render them moe
pendent and seupporng and extending them civil and political
equality Just national pride and that the House herW
aeou HOward Of the groudes
charges lately preferred him and does hereby declare and record
is Judgment. successfully Organizing and administering with
fty integrity ability the Freemens Bureau when mas con
of the inst two o Hese great
end deserving gratitude Of the American people
SAMUEL VI. ARSELL, JOHN BEATTY,
GEORGE F. HoAR, WASHINGTON TOWNSEND
CHARLES NJ HAMILTON, SAMUEL :. BURDETT,
JAMES y. TYNER, LEGRAND W. PERoE'
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