Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1865-08-03
THE NEGROES.

Governor Johnson Is more just TO the freedmen
than most men in the South, and puts to shame
those creatures in the North who deli sht in ira
Oh C ne them He administers rebuke, also, to
Sc who sCek to ue slavery on prefer C, q a.
negroes won't work except by comaul>ion. We
CO men the following extract o his speech, to
our CONSERVATIVE r'a 'ers espec ally.
81 have heard complaints on this point, fellow
citizens that in passing from the state in which
we have been into the new order of things a great
mluy difficulties and Inconvenience will arise
Nothing else could have been expected. Ii is said
the negroes will straggle through the country,
commit dcpredations, many of them be impudent
All this my be true. Bat for the purpose oil rec
tfyng these evils. we must have legislature that
will make laws to punish them. and punish them
severely, for the commi ssion of crime. That is
your remedy; planning will not do any good -
And not only that, but it is claimed by some that
the negroes will not work. know that those who
have been driven off the farms do not work, be-
Cause they have no opportunity of working. and
some Of them will not work where they have
not been driven off the farms. For
this latter class, the Legislature must make laws
declaring them yagrants, and punishng them as
such The negro will not work! How do you
know they will mott / saw them working very
well in New York, and other places where have
been.
II is true they sometimes commit crimes in
those places, and they are punished for it. They
must work --they can wOrk-they must either
work or perish. What is the dficulty7 Do not
the people have to work in Germany, in France,
in New York. in Ohio7 What is the reason they
will not work7 1 tell you they will work; and I
which they are surrounded, no people ever behaved
better than, they have done. Those who tell you
that they will not work have hopes of continuing
their contrel and dominion over them. They will
work under contracts hire, and If they fall they
become vagrants and may be punished
or exiled, as the laws Of the State may direct
Let the Legislature meet and pass the necessary
laws needfui for their regulation, and everything
will move smoothly on. Let them be emplo ed
by men Of humanity, and have fair compensation
given them and in my judgment, no difficulty will
lie in the way"
We have made large extracts from this earnest
and practical speech. but resist the impulse
10 90 ON, ard give our readers the plain language
in which he admonishes the people of Georgia that
they and the rest Of the South responsible for
the ruin which has proved SO disastrous to their
interests and humbng TO their pride; his invitation
to them to grapple the seeming difficulties in the
path of progress his predictions Of glorious and
prosperous future, under the benign influence ol
liberty, and his severe but courteous condemnation
of the vile arrogance sf slavery, which sealed the
lips of all directors by the violence osmobs:
"We have lost our capital in negro property -
| 1t is gone We are reduced as a people to bank
rsptcy. We have been 10 affiuence, and our richie:
have 6own away. But who is to blame! From
what source came this result7 IL was war OF ou'
ovl seeking, and such has been the result of it,
We made the war. As a southern man an
bound TO say. and history will say, We fred the frs
| gun, the rusplt of which has been a war Of gigan
tic. huge proportions. We have been impoverish
ed by our folly. and such will ever be the result
stupeedoas Sslly.
But while ] say these things On this point,