Show emancipation in the district of columbia S 0 marcur editor of the nashville union who attended the alic gettysburg celebration eb ration in a recent letter fl filin oin washington gives the alie following 0 interesting testimony as to the effect of emancipation in the district of columbia the testimony is certainly important and especially so to the border slave states many fally of our in tennessee are asking with much solicitude what shall we do with the slaves when liberated let me give tile the substance of conversations ich which i ch I 1 have had with late who reside in this district and after an experience of negro freedom af pf of over two years thus 44 yon 1 71 1 ar J essiw p vey this important ii ran case f I 1 in qu i gentlemen all of hi high 1 social position as follows what has been the general effect of emancipating the slaves in this district districts 7 decidedly beneficial to both masters and slaves have you suffered any consider considerable ablO social convulsion in consequence none at i ill all matters have progressed as smoothly as ever 11 are the negroes inso insolent lent and lawless not so much as form forin cily they feel that they are now standing on their good behavior alone 11 have you much trouble in procuring laborers none at all the negroes readily and faithfully for wages they do their work better than ever because t they ley know that tile they y ill must either fulfil fulfill t their heir contracts or got no pay do the people regret the change 0 which emancipation lias has effected no hardly one man in the whole district except a few politicians would vote vole for the restoration of slavery mr and mr who were both large slave owners and opposed to emancipation bitterly now declare openly that they never want to see slavery resi Oled |