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The Daily Dispatch: December 30, 1865., [Electronic resource], Southern Baptist Convention. (search)
The operations of the freedmen's Bureau in Virginia. Major-General Howard has just received the official report of Colonel Brown, Assistant Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau for the State of Virginia, relative to the operations of the system in that State. The report is prefaced by a reference to the condition of society in the State when he assumed charge of his office: The problem to be solved was how to provide for the protection, elevation and government of nearly half a million of people suddenly freed from the bonds of a rigorous control, acquainted with no law but that of force, ignorant of the elementary principles of civil government and of the first duties of citizenship, without any provision for the future wants of themselves and families, and entertaining many false and extravagant notions in respect to the intentions of the Government toward them. The citizens generally afforded no assistance in meeting these difficulties. Stripped to a great extent
The Daily Dispatch: December 30, 1865., [Electronic resource], Southern Baptist Convention. (search)
will find in this morning's paper the purport of the report of Colonel Brown, Assistant Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau for the State zenship?" Why, to confer upon them the Right of Suffrage! Does Colonel Brown think that would heal them? We imagine not, from the portrait o the conduct of the citizens towards these unfortunate people, Colonel Brown is not just. He transposes his paragraphs — makes the majorityleft by the war in the country. The meetings alluded to by Colonel Brown, fixing rates and making pledges about renting lands to freedme the people of Virginia are in no wise responsible for it. Colonel Brown truly describes the conduct of the people of Virginia when he s law." This was the majority--not a "numerically small" class. Colonel Brown either speaks from prejudice, or he has not had the opportunity seeing the people and judging them fairly. We know nothing of Colonel Brown whatever, and do not presume that he would wailfully misreprese