Year: 1866

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tation hitherto SO pure, and his sensitiveness
as to responsibility so extreme, that unless he
|, be deprived of all edged tools, even at dinner,
| we Shall not presume to answer for the con-
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The Freedmec's Bureas-Its Mischievous


IHnuence.


New England philanthropy, the humanita-
rian sentiment of ths.t conscientious district,
its horror of slavery ana Of the crueltics Of
the Southern white man towards the negro,
were the basis and the staple Of the great
agitation that forced the country into war.
Now slavery is abolished, there is no such
thing legally as property in man, but there is
kind of official guardianship Of the negro exs
ercised by the Freedmen's Bureau. The agents
Of this Bureau are New England men to very
great extent, and thus it happens that the me-
gro has fallen into the hands Of the very men
who were Mortified by the treatment he received
as slave from Southern white men, and every
mail from the South tells us of the britalities
practised toward the negro by those tender
hearted philanthropists. The Northern human
itarian has taken the place of the Southern
nigger driver Of other days only to show that
he can be the more cruel of the two and outdo
all that maudlin fiction imputed to the other.
Our correspondence on this subject yester-
day showed how q reverend humanita-
rian from Massachusetts attached to the
tation on his own account, actually shot
negro for attempting to "run away" and this
when slavery has been abolished.


Now that the great Southern institution
has been swept away, the next thing for
the country to abolish is the Freedmen's
Bureau. This establishment is the parent
of untold evils in every part of the South
ern States 1t is simply great agent for
the demoralization of labor. 1t was origin
ally established in the expectation that it would
prevent many Of the evils that it was thought
would be incident to the changed condition of
the negro; but it fosters and keeps alive the
evils 1t was expected to prevent. 1t was to
stand between the negro and the planter and
soften the asperities both ways-to prevent
idleness on the one hand and bad treatment on
the other. But all the idleness, misunderstand-
ings and cases OF bad treatment are traceable
directly to this Bureau and its agents It is
corrupt through and through. 1t sells negroes
to planters at so much per head, and, following
the plan of the bounty brokers, sells the same
negro over and over to different men. It is
not trusted or respected by any portion of the
Southern people. It's agencies in the various
districts are looked upon as disreputable places,
and farmers who wish to respect the govern
ment keep away from them. The Bureau is a
constant cause Of trouble, and Southern society
will never be restored to its natural condition
till this bad institution is swept away


II is also great swindle upon the country.
We suppose as people that we have gotten
rid of the great blot in our history; that we
have destroyed the iniquitous system of slavery
that was our reproach before the world. But
here in this Bureau, under the cover OF philan-
thropy. the worst evils of that system are per-
petuated. 1t is undeniable that the operation
of this Bureau is identical with slavery; that it
treats the negro just as slavery did, only that
it gives the preference in possession 10 another
class of men. The negro has changed owners.
He has passed into the hands of Northern
capitalists that have political power, and the
Freedmen's Bureau guarantees possession.
While thus it preserves the negro in q real
slavery, it has no responsibility, and thus it is
in fact worse than the former system Of slavery.
Every unprejudiced account from the South
agrees in the declaration that the Freedmen's
Bureau is the great obstacle to the complete
reconstruction of Southern society, and there
should be great popular movement to abolish
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