Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1863-02-06
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From tue New Yo. k Caucasian, Jan III
There are not a few of the followers Of Mr..
Lincoln who see that the Inevitable effect of
Abolition is the loss Of the cotton crop, sugar
crop, etc, for they know the negro viii not
worE If left to himself The DAILY Times, IN
this city, is one of those Abolition sheets which
berays method in IFS msdness." aud has no
n9;ion Of allowing Slmbo to be idle because he
is fes." Il says:
"If the proclamation makes the slaves sc-
tuslly free, there IoiH come ths further duty Of
making them lo0ri That the whole negro race
is to re- in idle if it should choose 70 d. so, be-
ing free one can seriously propose. If the
slaves CD jse 20 Tabor fsithfuily for reasonable
wages, very we'll; they viii establish their
claim 10 freedom by the HIGHEST Of titles, the
ability to use and enjoy It, Bltn they do not,
they must be compiled 10 do it-not By brute
folee. nor by being owned ike cattle, and denied
every human right, but BY just and equal taDs-
such lsws IS in every community control and
forbid Ysgraacy, nlen1icaney, aud all the shapes
y whica idle vagzbondsge preys upon indus
Try sud thrift
Now, is noi the above moving in a circle with
q Vengeance Spend millions Of treasure and
thousands of ives 20 d" free the negroes" aud
then turn sr0urd end enslave them again Is
this war, tben, simply Yankee trick 10 get the
negroes away from the S0uihernefs in order to
make them the slaves " Of The Buffers aud
Banks Of New England They must be com
PEELED to work. says the Times. Wha. "com-
pei s free and equal citizsn-' an American
Of African scent ITO work The idea cannot
be tolerated Garrison and Phillips would rise
ia rebellion against Abraham They must be
6. compelled" says the T5mes bat not by
brute force, or BY being owned Ike cattle, bat
by laws" Now, the truth is, the negro is not
" compelled to work in the South by brute
forea." When sll other means fail, he receives
an ordinary whipping such as al good North
ern parents give their children when they are
perversely disobsdieut. is a negro any better
than our own children The negro would
laugh at the Times ialss," aud would be very
glad to be supported in jail just as loEg as such
geaIiseS as the editor Of the Times choose 70
teed him If the negro is % compelled to work.
as the Times SAYS he must be, ne must be com
PEELED by such means as appesl to the negro na-
tuTe. The rules that would sppiy to white men
sre not adapted to ihs black, and il is simply
preposterous to suppose that We Northerners
can improve on system Of labor which men
fully as wise as we are, living lifetime in, con-
slider ia the main correct.
No intelligent S9afheFner has ever claimed
perfection for their form Of society. On the
contrary, there are fssiUres of it which they
would gladly ses modified, If the insane zeal0ts
OF En9 N0LIl WQUlA Nsaft tIc4 ALold 4olE
enough 20 make the experiments with proper
care and caution. They have only claimed for
it that, fundamentally, the domestic and subor-
dinate relation OF the negro, as existing among
them was right, the best for both races; and
this very intelligent N0rsherneF, who under
stands the character Of the negro, must ae
knowledge TO be correct. The statement Of the
Tlptss that negroes are 40wned Ike eaitle,r is
ridiculous, and we are sure its editor cannot
fail to know it is SO. Persons can kill their
cattle aud eat them OF feed their fsh-ponds
with thsm, just as ihs old Romans did with
their slaves, but the laws Of the Southern States
protects the life Of ghe 'sslave" negro Just as
rgdly as itdoes ihs life of the white man.
Negro services are sold il the South, lust as
the services OF APPRENTICES are here, but the
| law gives the planter no power over the body OF
the negro. There has been vast amount OF
Trash and falsehood eiIeulssed over the North
/ to intiams the peepla against the South, and
tEese faiseh00ds of the Taass are some Of them.
I'll reluctant tribute e the justice Of the sys
tenn Of negro labor, as It exists at ths South,
when the very papers calling sor freedom to
the slave" declare that tae negro MAST DO ..eem-
PEELED to work il any event, which Is al the
South has ever done. Il the condition Of the
negroes win be benefited BY changing then