The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1865-08-10

down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers
III steamboats,, to various points in
Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Lou
lslana and Arkansas, and to the inte-
rior OF Virginia, North Carolina and
South Carolina.
WHITE LAi'OIiEl:S SUpERSEDIN(; NEGRO
LABOR AT TIE SOUTH
Even with their Short experience up
to the present time, the planters find
that they can accomplish more with
ten white laborers than with forty
able-hmiicd negroes, and ut onc-tcntil
the expense with which they were for
mcTly bu..,icned. The example set hy
Gen. Howard III Maryland, of com
pelllng the planters to feed, clotEn and
support Tie aged and iniirm negroes,
and the young negro children left o..
th"lr hands by their runaway slaves.
under penalty of the contiscation OF
their entire estates, may be followed
by the military authorities III all the
Southern States. But that will only
Alenats: the feelings of the people from
the Government which permits such
acts, while it Will neither prevent the
supcrcrdure of n@gro labor bv white.
labor, nor hinder the certain ultimate
extinction OF the black race.
THE NEGRO INCAPABLE or PROFITABLE
VOLUNTARY LABOR:
In the meantime, it is not impossi-
ble that negro suffrage may be intro
duced to limited extent in some of
the Southern States, although it is
not probable that it will be. The
radicals are working day and night to
accomplish this, sending fresh men on
here every few days; and they may
possibly succeed in the next Congress
although l do not think that they will.
But us the negro race in Amclic, is
,.oomcd to certain ultimate extinction.
tins cannot, practically, amount to
much. The radicals who come here
pretend not to believe this. and assert
that there is q bright future before the
negroes i'll the South, because they
can be stimulated by the same no
tlveS that lmpcl white l,borcrs to pro
v'drncc and industry. [ did n.t sec
1t. Those who have read history
carefully know that it is not so. The
negro IS not impcllcd by the same
motives that influence Il white man.
The whole history of the negro race
shows that he is incapable either of
government or OF profitable vol,,n-
taiy tabor; and that, Left to himself.
lc has nl;,dc no advancement. either
III civilization, art or science.
TIE EXPERIMENT OF FREE BLACK LABOR
IN THE SOUTH y FAILURE.
Look at the native African tribes in
.\'rira. They are to-day Whit they
Wee tolr thousand Years ago. Nnn-
ming naked in the woods, they are
continually at war with each other, sell
ing th'ir captiv.'s rs Slaves and eating
their flesh. Where are The cities they
have built? Where are the books
they have written? Where their sci
cntitic Inventions? Where their mo-
numcnts and temples? They have
nonc-thcy have never had tncm. 1t
is not so with any other raca OF mcm
on The face of tic earth. Look ut
Haytl settled even by civilized ne
GrseS-a republic in nanc for the last
twenty-five years. The island is, ma
tur$l para,lisc-rroluction IS almost
spontlncous-yct the Havt;rn negro
OF to-day IS us crude rs he was twenty
two years ago, and III :: l;aye proven
themselves to be is ::.capable of inn
provcmcnt US the ne: v-mal,c freed
men OF the South. Free black labor
III the South will be found to be u
miserable failure, unless it is made
compulsory, and then it viii cease to
be free.
WHAT THE MAJOR-GrEEi;ALs ARE En-
rl:t'TED TO 20.
The Ma: :orGencr;,ls commanding
military departments Will have little
military duty to perform in most of
the States. Yet they I'LL have cnor-
mously large atails and large bodies of
troops under their orders They are
evidently expected to do something.
What is it? Can it be that the trle-
graphic order OF General Thomas, of
July II, in relation to h,hic,iS c0rI,us
in f1n ,f