The daily Chattanooga rebel. [volume] (Griffin, Ga.) 1864-1865, 1864-11-23

OF the ydDAec plan Tor cultlFating pfautauons
In Louisiana bv FREQ labor Some time
ago a Planter published his experience 10
the Times and show J. that the experiment
was failure. that il resulted in loss 10 the
proprietor, and vas af no benefit to the labor
er-in sh5et, that the scheme could mover
succecd. To this conclusion exception was
taken by other writer's IN the papers, who.
however, vcse not planters. but probably
yankco abolition Office holders, hanging
about the nature Of the negro OF the cultiva-
Of sugar and cotton. They insisted that the
plan Of Compensated labor" as they called
it, wpuld succeed, mainly because. as they
said. It ought TO succeed. Then there mp
peared a Communication from Another
Planter" which l now have before me, whose
facts and conclusions / will condense into as
brief space as possible.
This writer saws lie has been planting cane
aud cotton on the plantation where be now
resides for thirty-seven years Before the
war the plantation, including negroes, stock
aud everything, would have sold for $3.50. 900
in cash. Its annual production was Fl m
six hundred 70 eleven hundred hogsheads of
sugar twelve hundred to TWENTY-FIVE hundred
barrels Of nlslasses, ard enough corn for the
use of the plantation.
Besides this. tho plantation was always
kept in good order By the working force on
il. The buildings. machinery. fences.
bitches. ETC.. were attended 70 by the labor
on tho place.
The number Of slaves. Of all Sorts old and
young, was over hundred. OF these, seven
ty-five or eighty were good field hands,
Such was his condition before the new
Yankee experience Of free labor was intro
duced. lie then proceedsto give his expert
cnce under the hitter
In October. 1862, he started to save his
sugar crop with all but six Of the usual
hands that cultivated it. Ike arrangement
he made with his negroes was that he was to
pay each Ia boring man one dollar per day
besides furnishing the usual food and cloth
ing; and women and children in proportion
/ lie had already provided wood enough TO
boil 500 hossheads Of sugar. The result was
less than one hundred hogsheads on a plan
tation that had for years averaged eight hun
fdrcd and fftyi
/ / should have mentioned that this planta-
tien Is in Lafourclre country, which has been
all the time in the Yankee lines
81 The above was the yield of the crop of
!. 1852. Tho year 1868 was begun, be says.
under favorable circumstances. The cane
fiourished. and very large breadth Of land
was planted The high price induced him
70 plant much larger surface than usual.
every available acre being put into cultlva-
ton. The crop was considered good for
{ eight hundred hogshcais at least. The re-
! silt was less than four hundred hogsheads.
notwithstanding forty white men we're hired
/ T. save the crop, and an expenditure OF g.;
! 000 for wood. il being impossible to get the
negroes to cut and haul the wood to tn. en-
( ginc house. The. crop, though. was the pro-
duet all bur So acres) of canc planted be-
/ fore tho change in the labor system.
This year l640 he planted 800 acres in
/ eptton- Tho WELD is about forty bales. or
! cora I'D says he will make about half enough
20 SUPPORT the place. and Of sugar he will be
i thaukthl IL he gets fifty hogsheads.
All 1hie time he has his full force Of ncs-
roes. except the SIX who ran OF to the yam
kee.. pkying them money wages. beside their
I foad 4 I'D clothing.
Nork than that, under tbs New system n
quote bis exect lnnguagel .-nof ditch has
been dug thei aid 1ixches and draining en-
malls are ali beng fast filled up with weeds.
knd grown Il - With bushes The fences a<e
ing u ruin. wifll no means Of preventing or
remedyiEg the evils, for ! cannot get half Ia
Dor enough performed to work the apology
fora crop as i should be worked
In addition. 1t is impossible to raisc cattle
or poultry. becauseit is stolen and eaten by
the negroes
Such is the planters experience OF. the
yankce system Of compensating free negro
LAT Or and Of the truth Of Il, there can be no
/ der the same circumstances. Will tell precise
" this same story. One general fact alone
will serve 10 upset all the yankee theories
on this subject-and this Is that last year
the entire sugar crop of Louisiana was less
than forty thousand hOgsheads.
The yankee knows nothing of the nature
Of the negro, AMI never will know. The ne
! gro will not work except under compnlsion.
/ Not even the pangs Of hunget viii drive him
-
sistence and Idle his time away. OF course
there are exceptions. but | speak of the gen.
efal rub
This PLANTER says that under the old sy<
aud takes his own time. Under the OLD sys.
TEN the sick were sent to the plantation hos
pital, Now. the sick all keep their0wn quar-
tiers. and it takes one well negro 20 nurse and
wait on every sick one. May Law UP Tor
days and we ks whom not SICK at all Hav-
+ ing no longer any AUTHORITY over them, they
do as they choose-and tho result is. that
out Of more than one> hundred negroes on
plantation, It Is Seldom. he sdys.i that, more
than sixty can be found at work and this,
too. when tlsef are paid for every day thay
work, and The pay withheld for every daS
they are idle.si
The whole experiment is miserable fail
urofy - anybody but a yankee might have
u toreseen. Gen. Banks, when heinaugufa;ed
it. promised the planters that in three years
time the plantations would produce three
times as nueh as under the old system. I'M
stead of that, less than three years have
shown that under the yankee plan the plan
tations have become bitterly worthless. and
do not pay expenses. It may we'll be doubt.
Ell, indeed, whether If this thing continues,
the negroes will produce enough to buy them
food enough to eat
A HoRRfBts Dsrp.-A horrible deed OF
currel in town yesterday. Two children