New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-09-06

| viii try the experiment. We have II. !" thee 'ei
years had less than One Hundred 4 .aouSan'
Whites in this City who are without prop cr'y
yet who manage somehow to Lively gan
bling, pilfering, swindling, keeping hauntS OF
vicious resort receiving stolen goods, and
serving in one grade or another of the quarter
master and commisSary departments of the
grand army of Satan. There is prejudice oil
color in that service, but no absolute exclusion;
and we must expect to see it recruited BY
Blacks who, so long as they were slaves, were
more usefully and creditably employed.
We must not forget that work is, with most
people, only choice Of evils They would pre-
fer idleness but for the fact that this involves
hunger and rags; and they prefer work with
food and shelter, to idleness without. Take
away the pecuniary or equivalent Involvement,
and how many of our White artisans or labor
ers would 90 to work tomorrow
We assume that there are negroes who won't
work, since we know Whites of that disposition.
ANY one of wide observation and experience
can recall at least one White who, though poor
as Lazarus, has not done one honest days work
per week for the last ten years, yet who has
begged or stolen sort Of living, and who is
noisily hostile to Emancipation, because Mig
gers can't take care of themselves" Some,
doubtless, cannot; others will not.
We lately invited any and every hearty, old
time Abolitionist, who has tried to prosecute
any industrial enterprise by negro labor, and
been bafiled by the refusal Of the Blacks to
work, to favor us with his experience for the IN
struction and guidance Of others. We presume
there must be instances of this, though we
never yet heard Of one. We will consider the
first that may reach US.
Meantime, the following, from one who
planted ten years as Shareholder, is pertinent.
1t is the letter of a planter in the parish Of
Iberville, Louisiana, to tho New Orleans Freed
mems Association, and reads:
GENTLEMEN: am planter oftwelve years experience
this year / am working twelve hands, six men and SIX
women; my aborers TO get one fourth OF the net
proceeds OF the crop. They have full understanding
Of the interests in the said crops. Our contract was
made the ls Of February last and the result so far
is a complete success. We have to-day IS arpents oil
cotton; IS arpens Of sugar cane; rs arpens OF corn
all in perfect condition. don't mention the vegetable
crops.
| Under the old system, 10 arpents TO the hand was
considered fair result and than three onrths OF
the plantations failed 10 come TO that standard.
My laborers are all good people, behaving well.
having good sense they are honest and true
to their family. Beside the crop in common they have
raised for their private account small crops OF corn ana
vegetables; they have poultry, &c. OF their own.
Not a single difficulty has occurred among them since
they have agreed to work my farm.
mus the whole labor problem solved. Deal Justly;
give the freedmen some interest in their work and
there viii be no trouble In this 80 per cent NOR
Of ground Is cultivated than the same number OF hands
cultivated under the old system and the probability
that the planter will make that per cent more. IL Is
probably best to peg away" at the old Shareholders
TIL they conclude to deal Justly and thus fight out on
that line" II is nothing but sheer uglncss on their
part that all the trouble and inficts all the dis
tress upon the freedmen.
Perhaps this is fortunate experience; yet
we are confident that most Of those who go TO
work in the right spirit, understanding their
business, and resolved to live and let live, y
can match il. Let us hear.