, 1876-02-04
AGO SOUTH, YOUNG MAN"...HEvER I

To The Editor Of 7I.a Chicago Tribune:
Sr. PAUL. aItnn., Jan. 23.-Aa the public
press 1nlBlod by tho charity Of tho .Centonnial
and the patriotic platitudea OF CougteaH, begins
to ring tho changes on tho above tort allow mo,
or rathor tho victims Of antt-nogru laws gener-
ally. tho "bono1t Of short exporlouoo Al thn
South. It would appear that In Tennessee. At
Ioass, the Laws against negro-vagrancy and
crime are 30 constructed AZ 10 admit OF tho
whltes aud blacks, undor tha guilty but un1ls-
coyerablo coilubioh OF tho myrmdous Of Tho Inv
aud tho "lcssoosof convict-labor." Under color
Of some roal OF I'm nginary offonao, tho prowling
the local Court. aud hc IL Bual,narilT fined
and IMPRISONED. nnd then committed to tho
penal ponB, and condemned TO pick hiH 100
pounds Of cotton daily at L,is row" OF. failing
"buai-pen" iu tho ovonng Ills hard labor,
his Iasiaas, aud the discretionary extension OF
Lis period Of imprisonment. are all added 70 tho
Judgment Of the Court by tho lessco; and, OK
cppt ~ martyr or q man OF iron, Ae Will
hartlly aver ape the end Of hta h}aycry.
Talk OF xedIoss, or tic cEnploYmoat Of tlic
writ OF habcaH.eorPus. In tho ponal l,enB Of tho
cotson-A fields Of tin southl Why, I hava ouly
old I" slnyo-tratler," aud guerrilla. aud present
couyict-lcssoo, Gen. Forrest, after much expense,
and trouble 70 friends IL Memphis. The boy
WAS on bis Wild vay to Orleans when delayed d
19W uDAtIo uy tlH DUAL nv
ing himself eating wate.-tnolon Ut tho wharf.
hts litslo polntleBa 13owie-lntfo betrayed him to
q prDwIn1 policeman. md canHed h3B hrrest.
Iroucht before Judge Fippou, he was handed
over to jackson. the JRiler, and condemned to
ttrco month"; imprisonment, and flnod 1900.
| Thus euapared under tho black mau's lava, ho
Haa regularly rcnaistal. with his blsck coupau-
ions, to the black poual pens FORESTS cotton
fields, whor1 llo found that hla term Of I'M.
| ptisotlmont meant hdrsl labor also ; and whore,
at !t8 expiration, ho had still 800 days to servo,
| In liquidation OF bs fine, At tho ratio Of Is cont4
| q dhy,-a second day being added for crery one
raSsod from sipkuess in the "hobpltRl" thure,
and A many moro Al might be charged for lit
| wretclled clothing from ttnlo to time,
| Where now Ia y0ur emancipation and ahs
blood a1,tl treasure wastea thoraou, II your ole
Blaye. .tradern cau turn "lesseeB," like Forrest
| with bis guards and bloodhoundB?
Bomn few yoArs brncO. nbsn The hnmano tour
| let paases down tho MissiBaippi, his cara vii
doubtless he agBailetl by tho CRY OF histrcss o.
suffering unior tho lash from ali fslnnd Bon,c l!
mics below Memphis, at present being occupied
and plnntel BY Gen. Forrest. Nor will it b.
there ntone. II tho vilo Byatom be not abo!
| inhed, aud tho convicts treated ~ at the North
that penal sIayery will Eaiso its CIV to tIeayon
| oil poor Whilea aud blacks male and female, At
.oce!ving atripca 10 tho!r respective .pons. Til
systsm iB still in Its Infancy, with Forrest yer
fittingly ita leader. Undor tie old System, LII
alaveh0tler had at 1east Chnttel interest i,
his slave, whereas now he Laa mono, only sucl
III an obsaquious Court gives lnnl, so that, I
ever Tho poor yfctllns Of Tho low attain 10 free
dom again, their last hslplcss and dishoartene
slate exposes thcm moro than over. pATEA.