Year: 1867

mnnichuOn Win lno outer WOrlu nuNS
narrowed down the expansion OF his


mind, and the news he digests are only
those of local character. What is the


removal of Stanton to him, or the great


national interests at Walrussia, or Con


gress, or poor Andy Johnson, or Pope's


Wholesale suspension Of officers of a


whole county, or the set of laws for the


more efficient government of these parts,


when the boil and army worms are threat


ening his crops-his very vitals2 Out


side bis home, his traditional pleasures
are gone. His gatherings, pic mics, or


hunting parties prove failures, and often


end in quarrels. Legal contentious, the


desertion of negroes from one and their
engagement by another Have sapped
their mutual good fellow feeling and


enthroned distrust instead.


The demagogism as practiced with the


negro is really suggestive of the times.


What between the bureau and the planter


there will be left Of his good qualities


time will show. Both tend unwittingly
to undermine his usefulness in their re-


spective ways the former in its ready


bestowal of undue attention to irrelevant


and petty complaints, thus feeding his


vanity and furnishing him excuses to


leave work and to go to town; the latter
in his anxiety to retain him over in
dulges, breaking down all discipline. 1t


must be q very worthless case should he


dismiss him. His wish for horse to


ride to church, or for his employers gun


or anything in reason will be gratified.


Barbecues for his benefit have become


feature, and planters endeavor to eclipse


each other in these Everything is re-


sorted to to foster popularity with him.


Already he demands half of crop, half of


Saturday and an extra patch and he


gets it. With all this, he kills his en-


ployer's hogs, sheep, cattle, and, the


fearful havoc he has made amid the first,


will turn to the benefit of some other


section than this, To establish evidence


of guilt among a race so clanish and so


universally thievish is next to impossible.


Not long ago, neighbor Of mine, seeing


his mules that he knew were well fed,


losing flesh from day to day, sus-


pecting something wrong, ordered his


overseer to watch at night by their feed


trough. He did so, and not very long


after negro made his appearance, who


gathered up as much corn out OF the


trough as he could carry in his arms.


The overseer halted him, but on his


refusing to stop fired, and the shot,


aimed at random in the dark, penetrated


his heart The overseer was acquitted,


but in the minds of the freedmen poor


Jessy'' died. martyr. The freedman


has a natural horror of anything that


is like routine or discipline. They are


fetters to him, and in his ignorance en-


croachments upon his freedom, which he


is ever ready to remind you of.


The proverbial hospitality of the South
has become myth, The familiar


"halloo" at his gate and the pressing


home to him ofthe customary drgumenta


ad hominem are of the things that throw
CONSERVATION into his family. He may


yield, but with bad grace and i'll con-


cealed hnmor, The cause of this is his


inability of retaining servants about his


house after nightfall; the scantiness of


his larder, the exposition of which he


breads, and peculiar shyness OF


strangers, which has taken possession OF
him since his dethronement


Another from Lynchburg, Va, says:
There can be no question that this


race is rapidly decreasing in numbers.


If my recollection is correct, General


Howard shows by his report that the
decrease among the blacks since eman.
cipation is upwards Of 100000, and
what / have seen and heard in Virginia
fully confirms the report. Under the old
} reqime, however severe it may have been,
+ they had the necessary clothing, food


and shelter furnished them aud their
children by their masters; they had no


thought for the physical essentials of
life; and, in addition, it was the highest


interest of the master to have nurtured


into healthy maturity the offspring OF the
slaves Now it is vastly different; the
colored people have hocked from the


country districts, where they were born


and raised, to the idle revelry and dissi-


patton of the cities and towns; they are
crowded out of employment, suffer for
food aud clothing, become diseased and


in consequence, as am reliably informed,


the number of births have wonderfully de
, creased. Add to this the fact that
, the care and trouble of the children
, are now as a general thing thrown upon
the mother just relieved from thoughtless
; slavery, and we have at least a slight
reason for the horrible extent of intantl'
, eide that has been developed in the last
, few wears. | am told by gentlemen OF
the highest veracity in the cities through
which / have been, that this revolving
crime has reached astounding proper


lions. There is one fact in regard to
{ this race which at once excites the at


tention of one who goes among them
their absolute itching for politics; they
seem, amid their new franchises, to love


it; and if one allows them in converse.
ton the bent of their minds, they will
, talk about religion and politics alone, in
very crude style, it is true And there
is another fact equally as remarkable
tthe number offuent negro speakers who
. were so recently in bondage. Numbers
! of these men have been irregularly can
, yassinc the State for the past year, ming
: ling sermons and political harangues in
the same breath, some conservative and
many extremely radical; and the style
of numbers OF them reach an eloquenc6
which is of wild and peculiar order.
Another, from YazoO City, speaks as
follows: y.-


Your paper has taken position which
commends it to every patriot throughou
the land There is an attempt in this
State by a few white men from the North,
by the aid of the black race, to ostracise


all the men of wealth and intelligence in
the State. The negroes are so ignorant
I that they believe that the Southern peo-
pie intend to put them beck into slavery
should they ever once more get into


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