The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-04-23
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Future Dema' d for labor in the
south.

Future Dsma, d for labor in the
south.
Some malignant pariisans in the North
are endesyoring to work the minds Of
ignorant white labOrers 70 a pitch OF
frenzy, by inducing them 10 believe the
Admini abstraction 10 endeavoring 10 bring
black free labor into competition with
them. A more transparent imposition
never was practiced by d%emagogues. Il
is the most improbable of all wild sup
positions nay, il is not only improba-
BILE, but absolutely impossible. A sega
cious contemporary remarks that the des-
~titution OF the South, 10 consequences OF
the war, will require the lab OF more
negroes than she ever possessed, 20 repair
damages. The farms over a vast por-
ton Of Virginia, Missouri, Tennessee,
Kentucky, and other Southern States,
with DIV cling. house,, mil 8, gins, fenc's
machinery, tools railroads, and othe'
products of labor, have been destroyed
or impaired TO such an extent as to re-
quire the toll Of years TO resiore them.
The South needs not only her black la
borers, but millions Of white laborers, to
enable her TO recover from the shock "
civil war. Unless the Southern States
offer largo in dncemenis for %enterprisiug
Immigrants TO transfer their labor TO her
de partment, she will lag for a century
behind other portions Of this country.
Slave labor will be a mill around
her neck. She must cut herself loose
from this incubus and flourish under the
benign influence Of voluntary, remune-
rated labor. The old system of things
might serve the purposes, and pockets Of
q few thousand planters, who would be
glad to amass fortunes at Che expense Of
the great majority Of their fellow oiti-
gems, but IL will not answer the wants Of
an impoverished people The enamel
pated negro will not go North where his
labor is not wanted. lie will stay here,
as a matter Of preference, until the influx
of white labor, like the advancing tide
Of the ocean, shall gradually displace
him, The pArtisans in the North, who
profess TO think that negroes will go
there to compete with white labor, are as
ignorant of the negro, as are those per-
sons in the South, who pretend to believe
that emancipation would be followed by
instruction. Neither evil is possible
They are both the troubled dream Of dis
Cased f%ancies; or perhaps, in some cases
the bugbears of ~unscrupulous politicians,
more DESTROYS of getting Office than Of
consulting for the welfare Of the country.
II viii be impossible for the negro TO 90
North, while the demand for labor is SO
g~reatin the South, even if he desired TO,
as he does not. And it will be equally
should attempt 10 be o lOafer upon the
community, he would soon be ,0iped 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 r%ufians as FoRsEsI
can no longer seize his wife and children
and sell them GA the block like mules OF
horses. There will be no dang r then o
insurrection. The negro would nave u,
intOlersble oppressor TO rise against, and
he would no longer brood over dark plot.
of arson, aud midnight assassination, {,
revenge himself for ;he cruel : h;ppius
OF his wife or the debauch4ry of hi.
daughter. These, it seems TO US, are the
views Of common sense. Bat we cannot
prevent silly and pr,judiced people fcon
hArboring ali sorts OF gloomy apprehen
sions of evil, in CAGE OF the emaneipa,i ot
Of slaves, any more thau RoneRr FuLroN
Gould Keep the old keel-boa,-man lrom
going Into a frenzy, when he saw Full
ros's steamboat pulling along the river
''Sir," said the excited boatman, "you.
invention will throw hundreds Of boat,
men out Of employment" No." sal,
FuLToS, "it will give work to a hundred
fold their number at three times thei
present wages" FULToN was right. Blu.
the conservatives Of his day thought h,
was a madman, who would ruin the rive
trade.