New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-09-04
THE GEORGIA FREEDMEN.
GROUNDS OF DISCONTENT,

RANCE IN REGARD TO THE JURY SCHOoLr AM
PoIA~TAx LAws--oHARAGTER OF NORRIS
tYRoA A STAFF ooRREsPoEpENT oF THE uuBUNE'l
AUGUSTA, Ca, Aug. BIN former letters
written since came State have said that the
condition the colOred people here was better tah IL
WA elsewhere in the South ard that there was less
cause dsoonten them In Oeorgis than In any
other State The more extended my observation has
been the more convinced have become OF
tha truth OF this assertion The negroes, laborcrs
arc not doult deal with. Like all ignorant people,
they are suspicious of those who are superior TO them IN
fnegeno ard education, and II cannot be denied that
some white people, dealing with them. take little or
NO paus 60 make them understand the exact nature OF
their mutual transactions say their suspicious
This class Of persons often have trouble in settling with
their helm, and not always Successful IN securing
good worInen On the ether hhnd 1t Is the uniVereh
testimony OF planters with whom have talked IN Mdae
Georgia that when the negroes fairly dealt wlth ana
are made 20 understand the fct they are generally In
dusttiOus and e0ntented
TEE FRFEDMES FAITHFUL UNDER GOOD MANAGE
MINT.
A gentleman who has planted extensively ever since
the war anu who has biz place $50 coored men,
told me tie day that he never ;ound any trouble ID
nauagin. them Ccca ioEally he Las found anOnS Ihs
hands man of bad character, ticf or tnhing ieh0w
whom he ms been Obliged to send away, but the rcsecta
bio negroes who remained have always sustained nm Ia
getting rid OF such men He tod ire that he believed
that the white people in great NUMBER Oh cases "HeIe
trout
hape not lesaly responsible TIE negroes during the
xa,Ht,g season arc accustomed 10 draw in advance
MATT Of their wages or TO borrow money on their shae OF
the crop Being unable 10 keep accounts they are
often surprised aud disappointed, when tho crop
"a gathered o. the year closes, 90 find that larger bal
.noe is not due them and IS difficult at best to maze
Them understand that they have not been swinded The
gentlemen 20 whom have referred gives to each OF TIC
freedmen on place pasbOoS, and during the Whoe
year whenever ne advances any money provisions to
-. -, t,oh AaG mo NJ he
negroes can read and write and are consulted by those
ho cannot an mistake discovered At the end
of the season he makes out caieul statement Oi nc
count for cah with cOpoGs explanations ana gives
II 10 him. directing him to take ii to some OF his fellows
who en- read aud have il fully examined III connection
with his pass-bOok, and when tho negro returns per
3ectlv satisfied that the statement is correct he
pays him the due. In this way he easily saSncs
every one OF hands that he is dealing honestly with
n. and IN the last ten years he has had msun-
aer.tandpg with of them in regard 10 settlement
1ts serfemans NEGROES rarely leave hin. Lass Spring
snelghbor who trouble in getting sufficient
hands for is plantation tried to induce one OF them WIN
his family 10 10 his place me negro aIter lhhR
ing over said that lie knew that the land was beter
than TIM; on which he working. and that he eond
make better crops, but That as 1t would 0e expensive
-nov,np and LIE was well satisfied where he was he
thought # would nc worth about 300 to change
MANY of the negroes on the same plantation have
bought land In that vicinity. Their employer has en-
thoir deeds contracts &C. have been correct lie has
not advanced them money, but when they have under
taken Ia pay lands IN such ANIMAL nstaehts Us ueS
could reasonably expect to raise he has agreed 10 Sure
them against loss by failure TO meet their contracts ~
reasp of sickness misfortune have cited this case
AMPLY to show that the ncSrocs, when properly man
aged arc generally good faithful workers ana that they
are not ALWAYS blame whcn MISUNDERSTANDING arise
Cl 9imor Of 6andcrsve told me that he could remen
ser no single case the where planter who has
fori and cnupii De
IN getting the negroes to work foT him.
THK RISING GENERATION.
The perroos who are most frequently Ia trouble IN
t,daIn Geo-cia-those who fail to execute their con
tracts and who brought into the courts accused OF
er,es-ae those who have grown up within the last ten
years AMI in previous letter mentioned Tie facf
that the better class OF people, white and bIsck apre
bend far greater trouble governing and controlling Toe
rising genera ION than they have experienced in dealing
with those who formerly slaves. The reason Tor
This is very easily learned Before the war, the parents
~ colored Obi dren had little control their of
sprng Thr 81 all government was Tie
hy hoye," where the master lived. His self
interest induced him that the heero children Oh
his place ere taught Ia be industrious aud did not con-
tract nny lad habits that TORld impair their useutss
or teir value These restraints upon the young among
the colore people have the war oen almost en-
trelY removed. COlOred parents never ha' ing bCeh
accustomed tie care Of their own chlIdreh nave
naturally allowed them to grow up almost without
parental supervision ~ training Inc very "'' VIA lo
rOung al.rg the negroes are now Afforded some oppb
t,ncs 90 education has made parental discipline, where
an atreu has made to exercise it, more difhou
Than II would otherwise have been. The boy or
rrl who has learned to read and write looks with kind
OF contempt upon ignorant parents and refuses 10 DE
govern 10y tbonl
Ie re,ult of this is very OLYiOus: eO0Ted boys and
girls are growing up in idlcness and are contracting
vicious habits they sure 10 become dangerous mem
hers Of society. While in Montgomery. Ala, last
year at te invitation of the Superintendent OF the Pubic
schools visited number OF the schools Of hat city,
white and tok Capt Bush, who has taken gT' alter
interest in the education Of the eoored people OF Mont
ronery n cny one else toid then of the trolbe 10
be apprccrci from the fact that colOTed parents
Lced o. were unable govern their children, and said
that education tead of recdying the evil seemed 10
acgrarate IT, OF a number OF young colOred men who
had hess sent from Montgomery TO Howard University
and Other Northern Institutions very few, II amy. had
turned ou well Nearly every one lad become the vic
tin OF vioe in some form.
=. no.orous throughout TIE South that chastity ~
much mo rare among young negro girls now than be-
fore Then It Is te. some OF them were forced
IN srpi, 10 he lust their Owncr bat generally the
desire of the have their slaves all and
rase large families the main consideration IA old
Uncle joe negro nearly seventy years Old whom saw
IA Washington County explained H. the young girls
were not ail OF their parents they great fear
OF the "hic house" Speaking Of the rising generation
of eoloed people generally, Old Joe said They aint
moe count dau dat cigar what you is sInOkin when you
throw IL cut yOur mOuf"
JURIEs AND SCHOOLS
eome of the negroes holly Satisfied with the
politics OF this State and IL Is not at all strange that they
should not he since 1t is Conservative although have
failed 70 discover really serious grounds Tor cor"
pisint have heretofore referred TO the discussion
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