This was Mr. Chase’s single “speech” during the entire trip. Ten minutes, or less, of familiar and fatherly talk to helpless negroes, advising them to industry, economy and good order, telling them he thought they should vote, but didn’t know whether the Government would agree with him, and advising that, if the right of suffrage should be refused them, they should behave so well, educate themselves so fast, and become so orderly and prosperous, that the Government should see they deserved it; this was what subsequently became, in certain Northern newspapers, “Chief-Justice Chase’s endless stump speeches, and shameless intriguing with old political leaders, in his electioneering tour through the South.” The speech is given in full in the appendix (A). Footnote 16: The disposition to “control” the negroes after the old fashion, subsequently developed itself in Eastern South Carolina, to such an extent that the military commandant considered the following order necessary: “HEADQUARTERS NORTHERN DISTRICT, D. S., } CHARLESTON, S. C., June 24. } “General Orders, No. 62. “It has come to the knowledge of the district commander that, in some of the contracts made between planters and freedmen, a clause has been introduced establishing a system of _peonage_—the freedman binding himself to work out any debt he may hereafter incur to his employer. All contracts, made under authority from these headquarters, will be understood as merely temporary arrangements, to insure the cultivation of the ground for the present season. Any contract made under the above authority, which contains provisions tending to _peonage_, will be considered null. The officers having charge of contracts, will examine them carefully; and when they are found to contain such a clause, will notify the planters that new contracts must be made, in which the objectionable feature will be omitted. Contracts will be simply worded. Whilst acknowledging the freedom of the colored man, such expressions as ‘_freed by the acts of the military forces of the United States_’ will not be permitted. The attempt to introduce anything into the contract which may have the appearance of an intention, at some future day, to contest the question of the emancipation of the negroes, will be reported to the commander of the sub-district, who will examine into the antecedents of the person making the attempt, and report upon the case to district headquarters. “By command of “Brevet Major-General JOHN P. HATCH.” CHAPTER X. Port Royal and Beaufort.