Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-10-26
THE FUTURE OF THE SOUTH.
A MOmentous Question for the
Whole Country.


With danger. The avowed plan is to exclude {
large portion OF the white men from the I
,allot-box, and to admit all the negroes -
This will, ifcarried out, give clear majority
o the negroes in every southern state except
Tennessee. The blacks being eligible to
,ffice, and having clear majority of voters,
will thus have control ofsocietyat the South.
1t is important that the people of this coun-
ry should understand, before they indorse
his scheme, what will be its inevitable con
sequences. This experiment of giving up
society to the control Of negroes has been
twice tried on pretty extensive scale, and
in both instances has resulted in ruin, and
only ruin.
Society, in all its moro valuable features,
has been nearly destroyed in the Island Of
llayti by giving it up to the control of the
blacks Those portions of the island for
merly devoted to agriculture, and which |
were in high state of cultivation, covered
with valuable crops and elegant country
houses, are now nearly all solitudes-the
forests returned. The descendants of the
blacks who formerly contributed by their
sbor to the prosperity Of the island and the
wealth of the world, now roam about, lazy,
ignorant barbarians not much elevated
above their ancestors in Africa, though less
,enterpriing and bloodthirsty-meane saw
ages, weakened by the few traces of civili-
zation which still hngcr among them. In
1889 the island had Il splendid commerce,
which has been under the rule of the negro,
almost annihilatcd. The former great sta
pies of coffee and sugar are no longer raised
in any considerable quantities. In 1906,
after the emancipation of the slaves, after
the decline ofiudustry commenced, and just
after bloody intestine war, over forty y-seven
and half millions Of pounds Of sugar were
exported. In 1925 but two thousand and
twenty pounds were exported. The differ
cncc was not consumed in the island. The
negroes have fallen into savage and not
luxurious habits and ceased to raise the
article Since 1925 there has been little i'm
provement The history of coffee, and other
staples best fitted for the soil and climate,
is similar.
Int themcantime, civil discord, bloodyrevo-
lutions, alternating with cruel despotisms,
have cursed and degraded this island, one
Of the most beautiful and naturally opuleni
of any in the world. The onl way in which
the negro rulers can keep their negro con
stituents in sulicction, is by a standing army
enormously large in proportion to the Who'll,
: population. The morals Of the people arc
bad. The expenditures of the government
4
vain negro assumed the title and functions
of emperor, and for time aired himself il
public, at stated periods, dressed in gaudy
uniform imported from Paris. His miser
able apology for government was at las
! overturned and the island again given owe
to civil war, which has hardly yet subsded
This decline from high state of CONNER
, cial prosperity to one Of poverty, disorder
and degradation, has been the work Of littl
more than half a century of purely blacl
rule. 1t originated underline cry Of "Lber
ty and Equality" echoed from Paris duriny
the French rcvouton-the same cry tha
now dcaicns us from the throats of the Radi
Gals, who are urging on their scheme o
, Atricanizing the South.
Notwithstanding the efforts of the earle
black rulers of the island the Ilaytien ncgr,
has never learned to submit himself to tn
restraints of regular industry. He is NOR
degraded than when slave. In climat
n adapted to his nuturc, with absolute contrc
of u large, beautiful and fertile island lyin
y near the high road of modern commerce
y and within the radius of our unparallele
y thrift and industry, with some Of the fines
natural productions which refined nation
C are always in need Of and eager to buy, an
!, in an age Of the world when the progrcssiv
: races are overrunning the earth with thei
II enterprises, this negro nation has relapse
to the verge Of'barbarism. The rcminscer
l. ccs Of bloody struggle for liberty, in whic
), they were triumphant, and the knowlede
a that the result Of their experiment mu,
u seriously affect the millions of their brett
rem throughout Africa and America, al
T. impotent to quicken the current of life
,l their sluggish veins.
/, The experiment with the negro in jana
ca, inaugurated end conducted under ii
n fostering care of the British aboIitionist
!. operating through their home goyernmen
#, has thus far proved disastrous.
The importation into England of the pri
-. cipal products ofJamaica had, down to lS5
- decreased as follows: Sugar had fallen q
! $50, ,2lS cwt. rum, j91 ,67S gallons coife
900, 435 lbs. cotton, ,O2l 1874 lbs. indig
Is 81, ,ol lbs. These articles embrace most
the great staples Of the island This emo
N nous decline is but that of the singleyear
tc 1885 compared with 1917.
II But it will be asked, has not industry be,
nc diverted into other channels, and other pr
ly ducts increased? The answer to this que
es crease has been in pimcnto and ginger-t,
Il articles which grow wild and require no
rs Dor except what is necessary to gather thcl
Ih The country is thus being given back to
le primcval state, and the spontaneous pl
ay ductonS of tho earth are returning in t
'ir places of those crops which can be rails
only by regular and intelligent labor Il
TO very soil keeps pace with the negro and |
he turns to its original wildncss.
ed The spirit of fanaticism and party is n,
nv struggling to throw the South into the sal
IS, condition as llayti and into worse CON
re- ton than Jamaica. 1t insists that the VIII
ty political and social organization in the /,
he rebel states shall be given up to the cont
is Of the negro. Different motives impel q
,ly ierent persons to join in this crusade
pregnant with disaster to the whole COZ
IL try. One clas4, crazod by what Halli
% calls Sucking the dregI of IL bcsotted fanu
.cs cism, ignorant of or disregarding the tel
en bic lessons of history, really suppose Il
or the negro has the same high capacities
,s. the white race, and will carry forward
hos ciety with the same success. Another cl
ia are animated by a desire of revenge NJ
nd the South for its rebellion, by reducing
in to state Of ruin aud helpless degradati
\ third class, the corrupt followers ofgr
political armies, who gather plunder q
CD strip the dead are anxious to secure
S 'o' vote of the negro in future political ca
ss,| paigns.
1t becomes Il matter of Stupendous
49,, portancc to the people Of the whole coun
Nv Nv to arrest this mad scheme, which seeks to
ou ~, stroy society at the South, and thus incre
'ci the already heavy burdens of the No