The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1859-07-27

ARTEsIAN SPRINGS, Miss, June ord, 1898.
Mn Dear Sir: Your favor Of the 23rd
Nav. directed to New Orleans, has been for
warded to me at this point
cannot think for moment, that anything
in nv own character, or that Of the gentlemen
who were most active in forming the ;. Afr1-
can Labor Supply Association" TO whicn you
advert. would warrant the inference that, un-
| der its cover are countenanced a design Oh
| violating, in any event or under any clrcum-
stances in the letter or the spirit, the Constr
| tuition and laws of the country Ihese gen.
tlemen whose names are before the public, are
among the most intelligent and reputable
citizens of Mississippi, Arkansas and louisa
ma. and although I was not consulted py them
! in any of the steps which preceded the ior-
nation of the Association, | am not less
| grateful for the decided mark of confidence
and consideration they evineed IN selecting me
/ as the permanent presiding officer
/ It would be more complimentary certainty
to nv pride, to regard your letter, as that
simply of friend, perhaps l may add from
his antecedents, sympathiser, having IN we"
only reply, which his convictions taught
would set Alright before the public and upon
grounds which must meet itsi approvai .
movement about which it seems there mas
been misrepresentation and misapprehenso,n 9,
To one who has observed the signs of the
times, the evidence IS irresistible, that the
question of labor supply is at this moment
sdt,ract;no in every part of the South and o
the Southwest, a degree of attention which
has never been accorded to it before, stimu
| lated as that question is, BY the almost bound
less. and now but partially occupied domain
in our possession or within our reach, adaptet
Il rich and productive cultivation by the in
, creas;ne demand and enhanced prices obtainet
far every description of product peculiar t
that domain. and by the unprecedented ris
in the value of the only species of labor whicl
, Il Is capable of employing, thus diverting
: from every other channel of industry into
single absorbing one. =,
! IN the contingency which thus presents II
| elf but two alternatives exist from which
, cho;ce can be made by the people of tn
: | South the one being to await with folde
arms that coming of population and of abe
1rb;cb will be the result of natural increas'
:. ,,,b;cb we shall have the disadvantage thi
y o.bar and competing countries are not deper
u Jan+ so1eIu uuon such increase ;and the othe
/ - adont the line Of policy pursued in thos
IS oo,ntr;es i. E. to open the doors and lnyit
- nromote the coming of labOrers from e'
y 'y The latter expedient has been taxed,
g would appear to its utmost limit during
g pe,;od Of about half a century, and the pra
T t;caI fru;ts are that whatever Of labor or
nonuIation ~ the republican flag has invited. h
y aYpended and exhausted itself exclusively
Y Jeyeloping, extending and building up i
P colossal mower of other sections and elevatil
q, .ban, IN that control which they have at la
ne CACHED se, in our national affairs.
~ II is plain, and time and events have d
a ,,,onstrated the fact, that IL is not Earope
n , IaIor .cIieh tve spant since that labor duri
e e so long an experiment has not taken foot.ho
ne IN n our mr. limits. evidencing thus an incapacity
e, = adant mt itself to our condition and to becor
: ANA amaslramated with Us, but time and eve,
have made It equally clear, that Y such lat
We ;s indeed desirable u g altogether ,pitostte
- reach. r :,
tn rr;se. that in casting about for relief, inte
sss cent minds in every part of the South, 7
pc themselves insensibly attracted back to 2
ne fsther-land Of our present labor syst
ng which has been prolific Of so many bene
Dc to MS and to our civilization, which in T.
IN through Its offshoots has shared the bene
m Of thst civilization and christianization, |