Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-02-11

here and there. AT Nashville the
the temperature was milder. The
Pullman car received us again at 10 p.
nl., and at 6 a. IN. we passed Lookout
| Mountain and It's kindred heights o!
war memory dimly seen by the
moonlight which softened down
their wild, fierce features rs time i,'is
dropped lis fold Of plying love and
holy memories over the horrors Of
the days that made these points 10
TO mourn.
Here the green 81 tIie southern
cline began 10 obtrade upon our
notice, pines clothed the mountain
, sides, brooks danced on their way,
pools Of water looked up and mirror
ed the evergreen vines about them.
But oh, what country! All the
way from Nashville, indeed from
louisville it was one continued scene
Of thrifllessnpss and barren desoia-
ton; we looked for the fine farms and
palatial residences Of Kentucky. The
railroad must run through u singu-
larry unattractiye country.
The war emancipation mis-rule !.
is the cry. The war was twelve years
ago; it did not kill the soil. The
people are here; they were budding
around every station by the dozens /;
as many white MS not white, and the
rivalry between the races as to
which should take precedence-in
tattered garments, forlorne-s, and the
depths OF empty professionally Of
everything save idle hands-was as
often with the white az the colored
people. | say colored, for nine out
of every ten of these toilers-called
observation-disclosures plainly by their
complexion that they are akin in
blood to the superior race"
No corn showed its golden teeth
by the wayside as i'm Iowa and ILL
nois. No haystacks, no fields cover
ed with fodder or shocks, no barn
gave hints of wheat, no orchard, no
garden, no school houses; here and
there one spot Of prosperity, made
all the intervening space more re-
pulsiye. No cattle, no horses, poor
cabins and wretched homes-if tene-
ments Of shelter without window,
one door front and one door back
could be called by the sacred name
of Home. The exceptions only made
the rule more startling. 1.-THE effect
of Emancipation" shouts the con-
Yes, and Emancipation
was the legitimate effect of slavery.
robbed the laborer of his
brains, and the laborer robbed the
!" muster race" of their hands-or
the use OF them. 1t was mutual
pillage. Each must restore to the
other his own ere the wrongs will be
righted.
But the time will come when
these broad acres will come to their
legitimate work, and the sunny
south will accept its destiny, and
learn TO know that the command
Thou shalt earn thy bread by the
sweat Of thy face" was not spoken
to the black men alone.
Arrived at Beaufort, Port Royal,
South Carolina, after travel of four
nights and three days; the last
night, from Augusta, Georgia, we
opened our eyes at dawn upon
roses, and our ears to the
song of the mocking bird, and were
lulled to our nonn-day nap by the
drowsy inurmur Of the tidewater Of
the Atlantic within the broad banks
of the Beaufort river. Here, it will
be remembered, Gen. Butler first
pronounced the slaves of the rebels
+" contrabands." Here Secretary
Chase and his confreres first institu-
ted experiments of free labor and
free schools for the ex-slaves. Here
the first colored regiment was sworn
into the service of the U. s. Govern
inent. Here slaves from Virginia,
South Carolina, North Carolina,
Georgia and Florida fiocked for pro-
lection from the advancing arrty OF
the republic.
In my next / will endeavor to
give you my Impressions OF the
work that has been done and i'm
provements made. That improve
ments have been made must suffice
for to-day.
l wish could send spray of or
ange leaves and rosebud 10 every
home In Knoxville, with my re-
CARDS, this morning, the 9th of JAM
nary. Peas are up, potatoes planted.
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