The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1865-10-04
The Future of the Enaneipatei Negro.

The food tide of emigration which constantly
rolls from Europe to America, says the Loyis.
riKs Courier will prces the negro before i, as it
did the Indian. The surplus population Of Nor
them towns also will pour into the South. The
poor will come in search Of labor, those Of small
capital will come to Setter their condition and
the capitalist will come to invest. IN few years
our population will be trebled and white labor
will abound: ~, F.. 49,. 3. -, =
The. negroes will move southward, Until with
in thirty years they will be as scarce here as
they are in the Northern States now. And Why?
Because the Southern people will he unkind and
preiudiced against them ? No. But because now
that they are free, We shall become as careless
about them as the Northmen are, and when re
End it to our interest to employ whites 10 per-
form the mcnial service they have been perform.
ing, with anpye to selfinterest, we shall not be
slow TO do it. II pressed back, it viii not he the
Southern, bat the Nouttern people and Europe
that viii do it. They will leave because tire su;
periorand more energetic whites will take their
places and as they ow:! no part Of the soil, as
soon as they cannot.6rd employment, they viii
begin TO disappear. The negro prospercd ply
sicaly and increased in number as slave; but.
with this tide OF white emigration pressing for
HEardas the result Of his beiRg freed, We 10 not
believe hecan now. = = -'-s ..s.z.zs - z =
Already we hear that the intelligence Offices
WILDE ab!a to furnish white servants for fam
iHes Who wish them, in North Carolina, and no
doubt by the first of January nextit will be as
easy to set any kind Of white 'help"that may be
desired, in that State, as in Baltimore or New
York. And when this becomes to be. the case,
and the people who have to hire, . find that one
Irish or German woman cam 20 the labor of two
negro women, like the people Of the North they
will give the preference. If the negro driven
out, as we believe he will be ultimately, it will
not be on account of persecution blythe former
owners, but by the food Of emigration which
had passed slavery before it, before the var be-
Gan, from Massachusetts to Maryland.
If the negro would remain lere IS an inferior,
not demand too much. and perferm1for reason
able comp, nsatien the labour the country must
have, he might stay this volume of immigration :,
to some eXte.lt: but If he listens to the few IA
natics who preach political and social equality TO
him, and aspires TO govern, rather than be gov
erned, The tide will press forward aud engulph
him. Leave, finally, to make room for the firm
tread Of the white man, We believe he must but
he may prolong his st.y by good behavior and
industry. The same Apg.o Saxon that has
pressed him out of the Northern States is! now
appIyi for that place he has hitherto occupied
here, and unless he can render his labor as yalu-
able and his presence acceptable the owners
OF the soil as the more energetic pale-face, hei
may take up:his bed and walk. -, ~
lntell gent negroes VIII do we'll to- consider
these things.
Ciyi! authority is 4 IT established il Charleston