This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ... acting under. It seems to me this could be corrected by regarding every ofiicer on duty with troops in the Southern States as agents of the Freedmen's Bureau, and then have all orders from the head of the bureau sent through department commanders. This would create a responsibility that would secure uniformity of action throughout all the South; would insure the order and instructions from the head of the bureau being carried out; and would relieve from duty and pay a large number of employes of the Government.--Sen. Ex. Doc. No. 2, 39 Cong., 1 Sess.; McPherson, Hist. of Recon., 68. Testimony of Chaplan T. W. Conway, Ex-assisstant Commissioner for Louisiana I should expect in Louisiana, as in the whole southern country, that the withdrawal of the Freedmen's Bureau would be followed by a condition of anarchy and bloodshed, and I say that much in the light of as large an experience upon the subject as any man in the country. I have been in the army since the 19th of April, 1861; I have been over the whole country, almost from Baltimore to the Gulf. I was one of the first who held any oilicial position in regard to the freedmen, and I am pained at the conviction I have in my own mind that if the Freedmen's Bureau is withdrawn the result will be fearful in the extreme. VVhat it has already done and is w doing in shielding these people, only incites the bitterness of their foes. They will be murdered by wholesale, and they in their turn will defend themselves. It will t be persecution merely; it will be slaughter; and I doubt whether the world has ever kwn the like. These southern 5 rebels, when the power is once in their hands, will stop at thing short of extermination. Goverr Wells himself told me that he...
