Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1865-08-17
WHIYE Us. BLacK LABOR The

WHITE VS.. BLACK LABOR The
Interests Of tie Planter and The
Negro IndissoluMs.-The interests
of the black and white races Of the
South are sindissoluble. The one
race cannot prosper unless the other
prospers also. Than. the Southern
whites no other people in the world
so fully appreciate the many good
points in the character OF the CO.
lored man; no other people have
a kinder feeling--in mltltitudes Of
cases amounting to sincere afec-
tion--fora the negro; no other class
are more deeply interested in pro-
noting his happiness and material
well-being. The best friend of the
negro is he. who best understands
him. lie always receives his worst
treatment from strangers. The riots
which we hear Of now, occur between
the Northern soldiers and the blacks.
These convictions are rapidly per-
vading the Southern community,
and good and capable men are earn
estly considering how best to pro-
mote the present and permanent in-
terests of the freed race. The opinion
IFS gaining ground that this viii
make the best peasant race any
country ever possessed; and that as
the negro has, by contract with civ.
ilization, gradually become elevated,
from the idle chattering savage Of
the Gold Coast to the Intelligent and
laborious colored man which we now
see him; so, in his new condition of
freedom, he may be. still elevated
gradually from the best peasant in
the world, in many cases to a thriv-
ing, industrious, order-loving and
useful citizen. 1t is certainly the
interest of the white Southern race
to contribute all in their power to the
intellectual, moral and material i'm
provement of the colored race.
No man of right feeling, and Of
clear discernment, no statesman of
enlarged policy or comprehensive
vision, can. contemplate with any
pleasure-with anything but hor-
ror-- the prospect of the gradual ex-
termination Of the colored race 1t
would be lasting disgrace to the
white race of the South, if, even now,
when they are relieved from indi-
yidual responsibility for its welfare,
they, as a society, should suffer a
race which they have protected and
profited by so many centuries to per-
ish from neglect, unthrift, want and
twice. We boldly proclaim that it is
not the desire Of the former slave
holding population, at least of Vir-
GINA, that such a. fate should over
take this hitherto faithful people.
They desire, on the contrary, that
these people shall prosper and i'm
prove in condition and they would
consider it disgrace to Southern
society if this parasite community,
endowed with so many excellent ca
liabilities, should dwindle and perish
under the blasting influence Of our
own contact--a as they are reported
to have done under the hand of new
and false friends in Louisiana.
The agricultural people Of Vir-
ginia disayow all such feelings to-
ward the Negro. They mean to do
all in their power to help and pros
per him in The world. They mean
to keep watch over his false friends,
many Of whom come to deceive, mis-
lead, and ruin him, either through
design, or mistaken zeal in his be-
half, or ignorance of his real require
Unconstitutional Republic.