The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1865-05-27
What Shall we do With Them P

IF there be any manhood among the ex-save-
holders, we shall soon find it out. We mean
the manhood which cheerfully attacks the diff
culties of peace and wins victories not less re-
nowned than those of war. 1t is encouraging
to the North which is ready to do its full share,
and perhaps more, of the work to find man
like Gen. Johnston declaring that prominent gen.
.tlemen in the South "fully understand that the
institution has gone up, and will accommodate
themselves to the new organization" The SOON
er all Southern employers, whether gentlemen"
or not, understand {" the new organization y the
better for Southern production and prosperity.
For Gen. Johnston, not caring to exhibit him
self in the character of an infamed donkey, also
admitted that it would be more profitable to
hire free labor than to employ slave labor" 1t
almost takes away ones breath to notice how
miraculousy fast the truth travels when the roads
are moderately cleared from the rubbish of error.
Ten. years ago. planter Of Gen. Johnstons
mind in the premises would have been forced to
run for his life from his exasperated neighbors
bringing outithe feather-bags and tar-pots.
All the reclaimed Rebels, however, are not so
wise as Gen. Johnston One moody officer ex-
claimed in the hearing of our Raleigh cores
pondent, "Now you have freed them, we want
you to take Them" This is the very idiocy OF
political economy. A man with no better no.
ton of the principles Of production than this is
not fit to own a quarter ofan acre of land upon
the very extremity of Cape Cod. He might as
well ask us to take his muck-heaps, his plows,
horses, his oxen, his COWS and his cash. We
take it for granted that somebody must raise
corn cotton, tobacco and rice, for we do not be-
leve in the spontaneous growth Of these vegeta-
bes. Nv e have, all our lives, been told that the
blacks alone. are fit for this kind of work. At
any rate, they have done great deal of it under
the impetus of the whip; and Gen. Johnston
thinks theywill doa great deal more under the in
fuence of fair wages. We are really happy to
agree with the General. If he wishes TO make
himself useful he cannot too often impress his
views upon his fellow-citizens,i whose eyes are
only half opened. That simple truth which he
uttered in Raleigh is worth more, has more sense
in it, has more truth in it, has more salvation for
the South n it than all the tabular demonstra-
tons of De Bow, all the dogmas of Calhoun, all
the political theories of Davis, and all the false
and tawdry rhetoric of Southern stump orators
in general There are wonderful crops in those
little sentences. We will forgive Gea Johnston
great deal if he will go on saying them contin-
ually. Our only regret is that it required years
of war, with its waste, mortality and distress to
open the General mind to such wholesome con-
victions. Better late than never
No doubt there are great many worthless fell
lows, the spawn of the slave system, feeble-min-
ded and uncommonly lazy, sensual to the CEN
ter peripltetic nuisances, who will be every bu-
sy workers way, and will always be blind to the
beauties of the new system. Fortunately great
many of these /" gentlemen" have been removed
from above ground during the war, and, under
it dead, are now doing the State some service.
The penalty of views entertained by living loaf
erswllbc, nothing to eat, nothing to drink, moth
ing to smoke nothing to wear, and nothing TO
sleep on or under There are Yankee institu-
tons called sswork- houses provided for this
class, but we would not suggest such abode TO
such chevalers out at the elbows We leave
them to be disposed of by such sensible leading
citizens as Gen. Johnston.--N y. Tribune.