Clarksville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1865-1867, 1865-09-15
WHITE LABOR.


We publish, this week. On editorial II the New
York Fsr'. on the subject Of white hsser for the
sossh, and, ia connection with q, Nhe card Of NJ.
Butt Hewson Rers' Estate SCENT, New York city,
who proposes to furnish ouch labor to al applicants
NJ. Hewscn is well known to many in this vScn-
~, Is a reliable gentleman, and all who make APP
piicaiion to him, may do SO with confidence in his
integrity.
| But, in making this announcement, we muss not
| be understood as endorsing the propriety Of the
suggestion so often made, that white labor e n,
Thing for the sonth II is an experiment yet TO be
made, and much may be said on both sides of the
question. In the North, where thousands upon
thousands acknowledge negro equality, in theory,
mixed labor has proved TO be anything but product
i've Of social harmony, and IL the difference Of race
be the cnnse 81 dlscord there, wha, must be the
result hercl But waving this serious objection to
mixed labor, for the present We are of the opinion
that the black Is sufficient for the tll,ge Of the
South. We have some three millions Of negroes
in our midst, and they forbidden to 60 NORTH
lis The only rational answer But 1t Is objected
that work, they win not. To great extent, the
objection is well founded They will not work
steadily, nor where their labor is most needed, 80
long ms there military garrsons scattered over
the country, around Will, they can congregatc in
idleness, filth and disease. Remove these garri-
sons, and with them the underlined charm which
attracts without beneftting the poor creatures and
they WILL OF once, see the necessity for exertiou
and will go to work with better spirit and stick
to it the closely because there will be no point
of attraction around which they can play the idle
and vicious losfer; the towns will be emptied OF
superintendent labor material, and the country will
find its wants more nearly supplied.
But, We shall be told that il these garrsons be
removed, the poor negro will be subjected to the
eruelties Of his former master, and to general
SYSTEM Of wrong and oppression. This objection
supposes q want Of humanity, integrity and good
faith in the people Of the South which has no foun
dation in truth, and is based solely upon the vile
misrepresentation OF Black Republican agents in
the South, aided by few original or turn-coat I'm
ion men who want a military force to shield them
from public contempt, and protect them whilst they
are making money and getting into high places
There is no unkind feeling, on the part of tn,
whites, against the blacks. We do not blame bu
pity them. They pre- the creatures-tbe vietims-
of mistaken kindness and fanatic blindness ant
many of the evils which a sudden change ha
brought upon them, can soonest be remedied by tn,
Withdrawal Of governmental interference in thei
behalf This is ou honest conviction, and we ar,
lopposcd TO the introduction of white labor from
any quarter until an opportunity is afforded fo'
testing the efficiency and suficency of black labor
The negroes are here and if they are not employed
as laborers they must become burden and u ours,
for which determination is the only remedy.