Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1863-05-06
Fron the Nashville Union. 2}i.
Future Demand Tor Labor in the
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Some malignant partisaus in the North
/ are endeavoFing 20 work the minds Of ig-
| n Drant white lgborels to pitch of frenzy,
/ b. inducing them 10 believe the Admin
| istration IS endesyoring 10 bring black
| free labor IN competition with them. A
| more transparent imposition never vas
I p-aciiced hy lemtynEues. II !. the most
/ improbable ni Will snppg-itinn~; nay. II
/ i, not only improbable, EUt absolutely i'm
/ possible. 4 sJgtcious cntemporarv r.
marks that the de.tituti)n of the South,
| in consequence of the war, will require
/ the labor of more negroes than she ever
! possessed. To- repair damages. The farms
over vast portion of Virginia, Missouri,
Tenresse-, Kentucky. and other South
ern States, with dwelling houses, mills,
gins, fences, machinery. tools, rail roads,
ana other products of labor, have been
destroyed or impaired to such an extent
as to require the toll of years Ia restore
them. The South needs not only her
black laborers, but millions of white la
borers, TO enable her TO recover from the
shock of civil war. Unless the Southern
States offer large inducements for enter
prising emigrants TO transfer their labor
TO her department, she viii lag for CEN
tury behind other portions of this coun-
try. Slave labor will be p milestone
around her neck. She must cut herself
loose from this incubus and flourish un-
der the benign influence of voluntary re-
munerated labor. The old system of
things might serve the purposes and pock-
cts of few thousand planters, who would
be glad to amass fortunes at the expense
of the great majority of their fellow-citi-
Zens, but it will not answer the wants of
an impoverished people. The emlncipa-
ted negro will not go North where his la
Dor ia not wanted. He will stay here, rs
a matter of preference, until the influx of
white labor, like the advancing tide Of
the ocean. shall gradually displlco him
The partisans in the North who profess
to think that negroes will 60 there to
with white labor, are as ignorant
of the negro as are those persons in the
South, who pretend to believe that eman
cipation would be followed by insurrec
ton. Neither evil is possible. They ara
both the troubled dream of diseased fan !
cies, or, perhaps, in some cases. the bug /
bears of INSCRIPTIONS politicians, more !
desirous of getting Office than of consult !
ing for the welfare of the country. 1t !
will be impossible for the negro to go !
North while the demand for labor is so |
great in the South, even if he desired so,
as ne does not. And it will be equally |
for him to be idle If he /
should attempt TO he loafer upon the +,
he would soon be s0ipea OUT /
He has no alternative but labor. And !
we think it highly probable that he will ]
become a vastly improved laborer. from !
the day when such ruffians as Forrest can |
no longer seize his wife and children and
sell them on the block like mules or
horses. There will be no danger then Of
The negro would have no /
intolerable oppressor to rise against, and |
he would no longer brood over dark plots |
of arson, and midnight assassination, to
revenge himself for the cruel whipping of
his wife or the debauchery of his daughter. /
These, it seems to us, are the views of 4
common sense. But We cannot prevent .
silly and prejudiced people from harbor-
ing all sorts of gloomy apprehensions of
evil, in case of the emancipation of slaves,
any more than Robert Fulton could keep
the old keelboatman from going into a |,
frenzy, when he saw Fulton's steamboat
putting along the river. Sir" said the
excited boatman, your invention will
throw hundreds OF boatmen out of en-
No" said Fulton, ''it will
give work to a hundred fold their num-
Der at three times their present wages"
Fulton was right. But the conservatives
IF his day thought he was madman, who
would ruin the river trade.