Charles City intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) 1864-1866, 1864-06-16

Church party who owned the create
, portion of the soil and wealth of tn
country, and who used their wealt
: and power to Cypress the people. Tn
!, Liberals finally wrested this wealt
from the Church party, and used
, for tho benefit of, the State, and th
Power now ruling that country ha
, not yet deemed it prudent to restor
it. The fate of Mexico shows how in
possible it is to maintain a permanen
republican Government over the few
selfish, proud aristocrats who own tn
soil and wealth of the country, evel
without the demoralizing and aggra
waiting evils of slavery. -.--..
Who does not believe that If th'
landed proprietors who own the grea
body of the English soil could upol
some principle of justice be induced
to share it with the homeless and land
fess class there, much of the misery
want, and degradation that now afllictt
great portion Of that people would
be averted, and the greatness and glo
ry of the kingdom thereby advanced
In prosperous State labor must
not only be free, but the cultivator Of
the soil must have a proprietary right
in the soil itself. In the rebcllious
States the Shareholders not only owned
the soil but the labor that titled it
Labor thus degraded became dishon.
-orable. Here the poverty of the many
with its evils of want, of ignorance
and dependence, was to be found side
by side with the excessive wealth and
opulence of the few. The poor whites
ignorant Of the blessings of free Gov.
ernment, yielded their assent the first
moment the shareholders, their mas.
ters, sought to overthrow it. The
words of General Marion, himself a
southernor, written to Baron De Kalb,
present picture Of the lower class OF
whites in all the southern States
Speaking of Carolina, he says:
{" The people form two classes; the rich
and the poor. The poor are very poor the
rich, who have slaves to do all their work
give them no employment the little they
get is laid out In brandy, not in books ant
newspapers hence they know nothing of thu
blessings of our country or of the dangers
which threaten it enjoying none of the bene
fits of a free government they cannot appre
ciate its blessings and feel no interest In fight
ing for its preservation" 'as
This is a truthful picture Of tn,
South to-day. The wealthy and intel
ligent few have controlled and direct
ed the poor and ignorant many, ant
have thus led them into the vortex o
revolution, causeless as it is wicked
We must conquer the oppressors o.
this people. Their oppressors con
quered, the Government should ex
tend to them its fostering care ane
protection; should encourage labo
and protect all in the enjoyment of it
fruits. We must restore the grea
body Of that people by the establish
ment in those States of free SCHOOL,
and free churches. This can only b,
done successfully by division of thu
large estates, now abandoned. int
small farms, which shall be titled by
their owners. This division is alst
necessary to eradicate slavery. Thu
nature of that institution is to Absorb
all within its reach. Experience has
demonstrated that the small farmer
and in turn the small planter, wa,
compelled to give way to his more
powerful and more aristOcratic neigh
Dor, who prospered upon the labor o
his slaves, until all the valuable landl
of the South were owned by compare
lively few persons. If these esta
ties are not divided in the renovation
of that region, they will soon be take
up under our tax and confiscatio
laws by a class of cormorants VIII,
will swarm thither, hoping to amas.
fortunes by system of wagcs-slavery
as much to be deplored as chattel
slavery. This class will seek to take
advantage of the ignorant slave sud
denly made free, and will require OF
him excessive labor, with inadequate
compensation. tt8e la.
Experience has already shown that
negroes suffer as much under avari-
cious lessees who are determined to
suddenly amass wealth by raising cot
ton as they did under former masters
This evil of land monopoly and spec
ulation has become SO great in Louis
lana that General Banks was compel.
led recently to issue an order suspend
ing all sales of real estate in the Gull
department belonging to rebels. In
that department reliable authority
states that the system of leasing
lands adopted is but feeble substitn
te for the barbarism Of slavery J; TEN
porary, hope, but il persisted in
and continued for any great length o
time, the dominion of the northern
specnlator over the freedmen will b.
as complete and more cruel than sla
very itself, which in some degree anne
liorates the condition of its victims
through the interest Of the tyrant, VIII,
wishes to preserve the health of tn
slave that he may con.inue to exac
from him unreqnited labor. All effort
to destroy the Institution of SLAYER,
will be futile X General Order No. %
Of February 3 last, relating to tn
treatment of freedmen in the Gnif dc
partmen.. is to become the permanen
policy of the Government.
Shall we establish in this Repnbli
q system of serfdom at the very tim
when the Gear Of Russia is emancipa
ting the serfs in all his dominions iron
the power of their feudal lords, an,
granting them absolute possession
and ownership of the soil they hav,
cultivated and continue to cultivate
We hail with JOY this act Of q monarch
which raises millions to the condition
of freedom, and empowers q populou
people to enter upon the road Of pro
grcss. Let US at least keep pac
with Russia in our treatment Of thos
who labor. ] hope that the bureau O
emancipation will soon be organizes
and that it may remedy these evils
But no permanent cure can be effect
ed except by the adoption of SOM
permanent system looking to the divi
sion Of these immense estates anon;
those who till them, and who by ever,
rule of justice are entitled to the fruit
Of their labor