Year: 1866

| at the bottom Of this Fenian movement upon


Canada. The movement too, will rekindle
| the idea into warmer glow wherever the
news Is waited by the winds against an Irish
man. Hence, though Sweeny may fail in his
immediate objects, his daring adventure will
at least excite . new agitation Of the Irish


question, to which the great impending events


In the Old World may bring righteous and


satisfactory settlement


New England Negroism and Hypocrisy.


The New England Anti-Slavery Society is
not defunct As sensible people supposed it
would be when there was no longer any slavery
in the country. Having sloughed OF Garrison
and some others who wanted to wind up the
concern, Wendell Phillips and the rest, who
can breathe only in an atmosphere Of agitation
and revolution, have reconstructed the society
and held their annual meeting in Boston. Phil


lips delivered one Of his characteristic philippics
against everybody and everything except the
negro and . choice few radicals in Congress.
He denounced the President and the republi-
can party and hoped that party would be de-
feated next fall. One Of the speakers, S. s.
Foster, In q resolution, warned the oppressors
of their colored fellow citizens, "that the day
is not far distant when passive submission will
cease to be virtue and duty and honor will
alike require them (the negroes) to initiate our
revolutionary fathers, to assume the defence of
their own rights and appeal for their justi6ca-
ton to the intelligence and humanity of the
civilized world" Such is the revolutionary
language published to the world in the capital
of New England. Those who proclaim this
diabolical idea of revolution and bloody war
of races are the representative men of New
England; the men with whom Sumner, Stevens,
Wade and Kelly affiliate, and the men who
lead the republican party in Congress and out
of it by the nose. Before these fierce Marats
and Couthons all the timld republicans
tremble. 1t is evident President johnson
was not far out when he intimated that it
might become the duty Of the Executive to put
down rebellion in the North as well as it had
been in the South. If the language of these
radicals in council was not rebellious and
reasonable we do not know what is. The
bloody conflict at Memphis lately is but the
forerunner OF more terrible scenes these peo-
pie contemplate inaugurating. As to reason
ing with such visionary revolutionists, that
would be useless. We call upon the govern
ment to keep sharp eye upon them, both in I
Boston and in Washington, and especially
upon their frebrand agents who are spreading
themselves over the South.


The hypocrisy of these New Englanders is
something we might contemplate with re-
freshing sort Of surprise If its consequences
were not so serious. They are the same peo-
pie, not changed bit in this respect, who en-
shaved the Indians and imported negro slaves
as long as they had the power and it was pro-
ftable; the same who are now using the des-
potic powers of the Freedmen's Bureau to
grind labor out of the freed negroes of the
South. We understand that book which has
recently appeared, on the "Hstory of Slavery
in Massachusetts," is producing great sensa-
tion in New England. Its undeniable


truths have touched the Puritans to the quick.


We have no idea, however, that it will reform


them. They rave with madness, like the Phari-
sees Of old, because they are conscience
stricken. It was said to the Pharisecs, Ye
build the tombs of the prophets and garnish
the sepulchres of tho righteous, and say, if we
had been in the days Of our fathers, we would
not have been partakers with them in the blood
Of the prophets. Wherefore 70 be witnesses
unto yourselves that ye are the children of them
which killed the prophets' So these modern
Pharisees of New England who brought the
negroes to this country, held and sold them in
slavery, now say they would not have done
what their fathers did; and yet the first chance
they have they seize it to oppress the negroes,
to grind all the labor possible out of them and


to sell their services for the highest amount
that can be obtained. Truly, they are the chill
| dren of the old Puritan Pharsces.


Do we exaggcrate? Let the reports of Gen.
erals Fullerton and Steedman answer. The
| evidence these gentlemen have forwarded to


the government and the facts published in


the HERALD from its correspondent who accom-


panies these commissioners fully sustain the


charge we make. The agents of the Bureau,


who have been guilty Of cruelty and extortion


to the negroes and of trading in their labor
which is only another kind of slavcry-are the
csnting abolition parsons, orators and teachers
from New England OF the Wendell Phillips,
Foster and Cheever stripe The perfectly re-


liable reports Of Generals Fullerton and Steed-


man have fallen like bombshell in the camp
of the whole tribe both in and out of the Bu-


reau General Whittlesey, an agent Of the
Bureau, feebly attempts to ward off the effect
by a counter statement and by communica-


tions from host Of sub-agents rejoicing in
great number Of titles; but this cannot weaken
the evidence of such honorable and impartial


men as the commissioners. Indeed, the state
of things they describe has been known to us
all along through our correspondence and was


known TO all who travelled in the South be-
fore their official statement appeared. Thus


we see that the very same class Of New Eng


land Puritans who introduced slavery origin