Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1865-08-29


EHreRANTs wrrH CArIrAL FOB THE SourH.
We read in tho New York Sur Of the 5th
instant;
aThe late rebel States and the Western
territories IRE tho only sections to which
we would recommend young men who
have plenty Of enterprise aud persever-
ance. The Western States have many at
fractions, but unmarried men who are not
afraid TO trough it," undoubtedly would
have better prospect for gaining u com
potency in tho sections first mentioned.
But is IL better at the present time to go to
the Southern States or TO the Western
Territoriest According to cur belief, a
young man who can command few hun
bred dollars Of capital will do better to
20 Southwark. And for these reasons !:
Money is remarkably scarce in the South
at the present time. Business ia clogged
for the want Of il; improvements are re-
tarded, agriculture languishes, and its
noed is severely felt In all departments of
trade. In consequence Of this condition,
and circumstances connected with the war,
land is very cheap, houses are cheap, and
o little money will go long way in start
ing q young man in business"
The above advice, as far as 1t regards
the South, is sustained by correct com
prehension of facts. While dreamers and
Bchemers are disputing over the remote
and problematical potentialities of this,
that, or another system of so-called resto-
ration for the South, she Is in danger Of
perishing from industrial and financial
inenition. The doctors crowd round her
with ominous zeal to exhibit their nos
trums, the very smell of some of which is
90, -, nkz,,,
ing Some say she wants still more blood
letting. Some say she wants purging, in
addition to the terrible lanceting and
leeching which have left hor so pale, wan
and languid. Some say she wants an
opiate sud lcng deep slumber. Others,
and they are not u few or weak as respects
the weight of their opinions, say she wants
stays and braces to support her weakened
frame while forced into the shape of o new
model of humanity. The idea of moral
straight jacket and the penal stocks also
enters into this benevolent plan.
All this while the patient needs only
wholesome food and to be lot alone.
"Throw physic to the dogs;" she is dying
of doctors.
IL will not do in the South to wait and
eco whit visionary or partisan expert
mentalists may make of the negro in the
industrial sphere. 1t would be fatal de-
fusion to identify the fortunes of the South
in the future with Is substantive reBtora-
tion Of the past. But there may be plenty
of new growth, and such as may possibly
prove M acceptable substitute for the old.
To promote that is the object of practical
wisdom and wise patriotism.
The negro may never be again the ehi-
cient plantation hand which he once was
The splendid fruits of the old plantation
system may live hereafter only in story.
The enthusiastic, feverish, frQnzied con-
centration OF the commercial and agricul-
tural mind on one or two great staples,
may no more DO Witnessed; and perhaps it
will be we'll If the South be secured here
after from such congestion of enterprise
and labor; for spasm is not strength, and
plethora attended with vertigo is not
health.
With less absorption in cotton and sugar
there may be large and useful variety Of
products, resulting, for the general popu-
lation, in . net aggregate Of wealth, COM
fort, and enjoyment not less, possibly
more, than was realized under the old
system.
But meantime the South, not in CON
dition, rs remarked, to hinge her imme-
diate welfare on the caprceH Of negro agi-
tation and the results Of doubtful or SIMS
ter experiments, is in instant want ot labor
and capital, and holds forth eloquent
promises of splendid reward for both.
Immigrant labor with capital wiR, of
course, reap speedier and larger profits;
but labor alone is assured Of welcome, OPP
portunity and satisfactory remuneration
for honest and intelligent industry =. NtsO
Orleans Bee.