Year: 1868

Gen Ed. W. Kinks, commanding the port
Of dodsboro North has written long letter on
tho condition of tho South TO friend In Bangor Me-
which The wing and Cou'fr prints. We extract the
following:


There is manifested by many these states. sincere
aud honest disposition 70 bury the past and accept the
o devote Themselves the restoration OF the prosperity
Of the people and the resabsbmen Of the states upon
the basis presented by the laws OF Congress and under
the fostering care the nation this inclination be in
creased aud rpeucd into fxcd and domnent public sent
frame their institutions in the spirit Of liberty and Justice
and draw them again within the Union with renewed alice
ton for its traditions. its people and its institutions. IT,
however this hope should be crushed and the advocates
for union be stricken down by reversal OF tue Just
policy enforced by Congress- there Will be promise Of
any complete restoration OF these states to prosperity
and fixed status In the Federal Union hut reign o,
the policy Of Congress have denounced II most bitterly
because it has armed the freedman with ballot Tor
cite because he is OF an ncfor race There can DC no
doubt that the white races reared under favorable cir
cumstances In virtue. intelligence, and physique
vastly superior 20 the black races and especially OF the
recently freed black people Of the South but II Is not true
that the freedmen OF North Carolina arc less capable OF
an intelligent exercise 0i the elective franchise than
are the masses OF the native white labOring
men east OF tho mountains Indeed il is ques-
tlOnabe whether there freedmen Ia North Caro-


lima who cannot read and write than there OF whites
who labor under the popularity. lt is shown by


Ties against the Constitution i'm the recent election nearly
onehaf OF the whites who registered unable to sign
their and II Is believed that the freedman votes
more niolgeny than the poor white whose prejudces
are more potent than his intellectual reasoning faculties
While therefore, under other cucumsances Impartial
suffrage based upon the intelligence OF the voter com
mands itself to the Judgment 1t cannot at present be
adopted I'm these states without denial OF denocIatic
privileges to whites well rs blacks. The freedmen
have certainly developed habits OF industry and dis
position 10 provide for themselves ana their FAMILIES,
far beyond the expectations or all; and not
withsandng the pelcous influence OF slavery and the
tendency Of It's teachings 10 yagrancy and petty msde-


eanors tho freedmen contribute faress than the whites
the aggregate OF Incidence and crime In these States


In fact they constitute almost the only productive popu
aOn Of the South and when protected by the impartial
administration OF Just laws, are comparatively the best
citizens among the labOrng classes In this section OF the
country The Reconstruction measures OF Congress have
proved at temporarily successful In most OF the
States; and the election OF Grant with continued
f0rcement OF the protection TO the people which the Fed
legislation provides tempered with as much OF elem
ENJOY toward the yanqused rulers OF tho South the
safety Of the Republic will admit, will permanently es
tablish the democratic idea OF universal suffrage aud
equal rights a practical fact