Year: 1866

From the Columbus lGa.l SUM-


Just as Gen Howard is furnishing to the
Radical press Of the North the reports Of his
subordinates, detailing the horrible sickness,
suffering and destitution amongst the negroes
of the South, the War Department promul-
gates an order to the effect that after the
first Of October next no. more rations or
clothing are to be issned to Cuffee FroIa
that time forward he is expected to paddle
his own canoe" for the nation declines Ion
ger to feed its wards. We know of no act
which has been done to the negro by his
Northern friends 50 manifestly unjust as this
last one, save that Of emancipation.


Having released him from the constraints
by which he was kept employed, and from
which he enjoyed degree of health and
happiness which he can never again know
having made him a vagrant and an idler, a
pauper, an Outcast, an invalid, and in many
cases a criminal; having taught him % re-
iect and dispise the offers of friendship and
aid from his former master and friend and
to indulge in vain hopes of social and polit-
ical equality, they now propose to turn him
over to the pest houses and prisons of the
land


He has ceased to be of political value.
All the money, all the influence that could
be controlled by walls over his sad condition
have been obtained, and his philanthropic
friends now say 10 him in unmistakable Ian
guage that he mnst work or starye Whilst
this is an alternative presented TO all OF the
human race, it is presented to the negro at an
unfortunate era in his existence, and under
circumstances shamefnlly uniustto him. The
last Congress, in the excess Of their sympa-
thy for him, appropriated fourteen millions
of dollars out Of the public treasury for has
support. Whilst the appropriation OF such
sum was unjust TO the tax payers OF the
country, the withholding of it now from Its
designated purposes is more unjust to the
negro. If we could believe that this order
was prompted by desire for the retreneh-
ment and reform, so much needed in the ad-
ministration of the Government, we might
look upon it with some show OF favor, but
we have reason to fear that the money APP
propriated to Cufiee is to be squandered on
the white officers who crowd the offices and
places Of the Freedmen's Bureau.


Political eveHk are beginning to cast their
shadows before them. The party in power
feel that they are to be driven from the pub
lie crib, and they are determined not to go
away empty handed. When the retreat
commences, they will carry, if possible, their
own ill-gotton gains, and the food, the blank
cts, the clothing, and the medicines of the
race they have emancipated only to destroy.


Northern song writers and nOvelists have
reaped rich harvest from the sorrowful
history of the red man, who was first cheated,
then exiIed and afterwards robbed. The
few remaining children OF the forest will
soon pass away-the friendly ones by dis
ease and New England rum, the hostile be-
fore Federal bullets-but the Southern
negro will furnish fitting theme for maga-
zine makers for time to come. When the
last Choctaw and Camanche shall have been
| gathered to his fathers, 40! the poor In
dian of the past will find a representative
in the poor negro of the present. CIfu