The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1870-08-04

We have already noticed the fact
the committee appointed to investigate
the charges broughtagainst Gen, How
ard, had reported in his favor. The N.
Y. Tribune for Tuesday of last week con-
tanned the report in full, occupying five
columns in fine type. The following is
the conclusion of the report:
BRITISH EMANCIPATION.
In abolishng slavery the English Government
| found itself beSet with difficulties which 1t at
| tempted to overcome by adopting q system of
understood that this was the scheme of Lord
Bro1gham. Wilberforce, Clarkson, and others
had given l6 years of thought and effort to the
abolition of the slave trade, and now that eman-
cipation itself was fixed fact the combined wis
dom of English statesmen, Pitt, Fox, Burke, and
others, agreed upon apprenticeship; it exploded,
however, before the prescribed term of years
which it was to run had expired. In other
words, the entire scheme was failure.
Such were the lights Gen. Howard had before
him for his guidance.
The emancipation problem in Russia was, in
many important respects, different from ours,
and he could get no hints from that quarter TO
serve him. The failures of the past We're before
him, and, as he thought the causes OF them. lie
could get but little consolation from those sourc-
eS so he addressed himself boldly to the work be-
fore him from new standpoint The impulses
of freedom and progress were controlling the ma
tiOnal mind and, trusting to these impulses, he
went to work on the principle that only ideas
save races" If thenegroes were to be saved, and
were to benefit civilization, 1t was TO be only by
making them self-relying and responsible citi-
zens. His first attempts, therefore, were to pre-
vent pauperism, to make the freedmen and their
families understand that charity should be con-
Sidered odous by them, that they should work
to support themselves and families, and that
they should be educated.
The Bureau, at the close of the war, was the
representative at the South of the best ideas OF
| the country, promoting peace and ordalnlng
justice. What 1t accomplished in this respect
| exceeded the expectations Of its most sangulhe
advocates. 49,
Let it be forever remembered, to the credit Of
| the cOlored race and of the inspiration that
prompted Gen. Howard's plans, that not one i'm
| Surrection, not one murder has occurred, on the
part of the negroes, in revenge for two centuries
| of slavery, Yet the two races have lived side by
| side, in the same neighborhoods, looking in each
others eyes, while this wonderfl transformation
| has been going on. What different spectacle
| presents itself ON the blOOd-drenched sands OF
| the Antilles under French rule! Ours was the
! substitution of moral for brute force,
1t may be well to state, in this connection, that
| it was in a freedmens court that coored persons
were first admitted to testify in any of the late
! Slave States, To-day all the courts are open 10
them, and a colored Senator sits at the other end
of the Capital and assists in making laws fol
those courts.
Not less potent has been the influence of the
Bureau ON the labor question. At the close o.
the war famine looked the South in the face
| There was cry for bread in the Southern cOun
try. 1t was sneeringy said by the enemies o.
| emancipation that the negro would not labor
Satisfied by the Bureau that contracts would By
| enforced, that justice wOnld be administered
with words of encouragement whispered in hi
ear the negro went to work. The battle-ploWed
trainpled fields of the South yielded wealth o
| production that seemed not the result OF human
labor but as If "earth had again grown quick
| with Gods creating BREATH" The crops at The
South have been larger, proportionally since the
| war than at any previous tlme.
An article by Sidney Andrews, in the Febru'
| ary number of The Old and NelO, makes the fol-
lowing concise and truthful statement OF the
| workings of the Bureau:
| OF the thousand things that the Bureau has
done no balance sheet can ever be made. How
| 1t helped the ministers of the church, saved the
| blacks from robbery and persecution, enforced
respect for the negrO's rights, instructed all the
people in the meaning of the law threw itsel
against the stTonghods of intemperance settled
neighborhood quarrels, brought about amicablt
relations between employer and employed, com
forted the sorrowful, raised up the downhearted
corrected bad habits among whites and blacks
| restored order, sustained contracts for work
| compelled attention TO the statute books, col
lected claims, furthered local educational move
ments, gave sanctIty to the marriage relation
dignihed labor, strengthened men and women II
good resolutions, rooted out old preiudices, en-
1obled the home, insisted the freedmen to be
come landowners, brought offenders to justice
broke up bands of outlaws, overturned the class
rule OF ignorance, leu Dlllef ne0fUS lnlO DFlBlJr
ways, shamed strong hearts into charity and for
giveness, promulgated the new doctrine OF equa
rights, destroyed the seeds of mistrust and an
tagonism, cheered the Respondent, set idlers n
work, aided in the reorganization OF society
carried the light of the North into dark place
of the South, steadied the negro in his struggl
with novel IDEAS inculcated kindly feeling
checked the passion of whites and Blacks open
ed the blind eyes of judges and jurors, taught tn
gospel of torbearance, encouraged human sym
pathy distributed the generous charities OF th
benevolent, upheld loyalty, assisted In creatin
O sentiment of nationality-how 1t did all thi
and hundred-fOld more who shall ever tell
what pen shall ever record?
These are warm and generous words. The,
are eloquent. But the facts they state are stil
more eloquent
Still IL Is asked,
HAS THE BUREAU BEEN A SUGGEST
Success The world can point to nothing lll1
, II In all the history of emancipation No thil
teen millions of dollars were ever more wiscl
spent; yet, from the beginning this scheme ha
encountered the bitterest opposition and TIL
most unrelenting hate. Scoted at like thin
of shame, often struck and sorely wounded
sometimes in the house ofits friends, apologize
for rather than defended yet with God ON II
side, the Frcedman's Bureau has tTiumphed; civ
lizatlon has received new impulse, and tn
friends of humanity may well rejoice. The Bu
reau work Is being rapidly brought to q clos'
} and its accomplishments will enter into history
while the unfounded accusations brought agains
| II will be forgotten. There Is day and an hou
when the slnnder lives not When the passion
of men subside, and when the dust of time ha
well fallen, then comes the hour of Cnlmer judg
| ment Many-tongued scandal has the brlefes
of existence;
wandering night-moth,
Allured by taper cleaning bright
Now busy, now all darlIling.
She snaps and fades to empty air
Evil is quickly forgotten; truth alone is abiding