The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-01-13

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80" For the Dispatch. .at
x,r.oclman.a RurSau I'm Florida.
This national piece Of furniture 10 esi.
,hsntIy made Of sap.wood it has warped
in use, and warps everything it has 70 90
with.
Nothing has so much tended to lnJnro
the negro and bring the United STATES uo.
yernmeut into deserved contempt as .ne
existence and administration OF this queer
contr;yance for making and training cit-
ems. Il is an effort seriously attempted 70
lender the negro tho equal OF the wnise
man by elevating the one and depressing
the other--thus endenvoring to undo the
laws of Nature and Of Natures God. IT. Is
really trying to perform the building OF :ne
tower of Babel over again, and meets WIN
a like confusion. It is the wonder OF .he
world and is becoming the worlds laughing
s+ocI And similar materials seem soha
hnnn cmn;oved: soft bricks, OF black, te-
,.c;,,,a nnonld. instead Of solid granite
,,incks =. md dirty slime have they for NOR
-. That sand-house which their chief,
Gereral Howard, erected in Washington, 60
s,rorr that the first frost overthrow It (yet
no, without many profits to the projectors,
is tyuicsl of the entire institution. ~, !
You may take the negro race, try to
manufacture them into citizens, secure the
exclusive right to this manufacture by con-
gressional patent right, cement them to-
gether by any quantity OF schooi'marms,
Freedman Bureau agents, and Yankee prim-
crs. and the work will fall to pieces as
soon as it is left standing alone not even
the cohesive force of public plumber will
hold it long together. This work is pecu-
Iarly the effort of New England, and is di-
rect off-shoot of Plymouth Rock, that absurd
Barney Stone which has 80 long hung as a
dead weight on the neck of this importan mt and
despotically governed country, the dust
from which, ground out by the frequent
footsteps of pilgrim fathers, has been con-
tinuaily blowing in the eyes Of our un-
happy people, until they have become high
gravel blind to everything that is good and
great.
Sclf-dependence and regard for the rights
of others. while maintaining your own, are
the corncr-stones of free government. And
nothing has done more to deprive the negro
of both than this Freedmen's Bureau It'll
an empire within an empire; it teaches the
negro not to rely on himself, not to exert
himself to win and keep the good will OF bis
ncighbors, but to depend on the irresponsi-
BILE and lawless agents of foreign power
to sc. him Mt feud with all about him, and
to appeal, not to the courts, not to the cha
ractcr he has among those with whom he
lives, not even on himself, but to some shout
der-strapped, blue-coated, consequential
lacqucy, who knows as much Of honor and
honesty as he does of law aud courtesy, and
who has probably earned his appointment
by graduating in some northern penitentl-
ary or lunatic asylum | know that there
ere some honest and sincere men among
them; but no man can handle pitch and not
he defiled there are fools as we'll as knaves
in oil institutions and nothing ever invent
cd can furnish as perfect specimens of both
as this elimination of New England civil
cation has done. Hereafter, when the world
becomes sane again, to have served in the
Creedmcn's Bureau will be q thing for q
mans SOILS to feel ashamed of; no man will
cnurayc ii on his fathers tombstone. ~.
One only good they have done they
have certainly given the negro all the OPP
IGlIUnllicS VI DoV S'Sh sAA"3
ike everything given in charity, is injurious,
and Should be merely q preparation for
sclf-cLucation. If the negro wishes to be
really Il freeman, and not mere freed
slave, he must depend on himself and edu-
cate himself. Liberty never yet did walk
On crutchee, and owing to this lnsti-
tuition he is now more slave than
ever; formerly he had one master
now every agent is his master. he belongs
1C an institution that certainly has no soul
Wherever the Bureau has been most &C
Tive, there the negro is now most indolent
and more vicious. He should pray for de-
liycrance from such friends. 1t reacts in
juriously on its white managers; nothing
affords such opportunities for tyranny and
fraud. Hear an instance: A young man
came rs assistant agent into our section Of
Florida. lie had the clothes he travelled
in, an empty carpet-bag, and box OF
paper-collars. In eight or ten months that
man offered to pay $4,000 for farm, and
showed the money. He died soon after ut
the cabin of his negro wife and when his
brother came to settle his affairs, none Of
this money could he found. How was
this money made? His books were
all straight; he kept them himself,
and knew how to balance accounts.
He had distributed rations and clothes
lavishly, and this was the way in which
money was made. An order was issued for
food supplies; the negro receives a little
meal and meat, yet signs receipt and
voucher in full. The negro, being, like
most of his race, man of mark, who signs
bis name without troubling the alphabet for
single letter, could be easily deceived,
and thought it fine way to get rations by
making cross on piece Of paper. The
remainder, and most VARIABLE part of the
ration, could be comfortably sold, and the
agent have an abundance of pocket money.
Il was only following lagos advice, I" Put
money in thy purse"
think that if Ben. Butler wants to do a
profitable stroke of business he should be
chairman of q congressional committee to
Investigate the accounts of these agents,
with liberty to examine persons as well as
send for papers, and purchase cologne.
There would be a grand disagreement and
the a, ents would pay we'll for being white
washed. l select him because he knows all
about such things; your reformed thief
makes good detective. Many of these
agents would fear this more than they would
a tire-arm-that would only kill the body !;
this would threaten the very souls. They
would be like that glutton who enjoyed all
the good things of hotel table, and would
not pay the landlord drew revolver on
him. His account of it was: 81 was very
much frightened until I saw it was only a
revolver; / was afraid that he had brought
out stomach pump I should like to see