Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1865-10-14
The Future Of, the Emancipated Negro.


The food tide of emigration which oop,s
stantly rolls from Europe to America, says the
Louisville Courier, will press the negro before,
it as it did the Indian. The surplus popula-
tion Of Northern towns also will pour ipto the
South. The poor will come in seatch of labor,
those of small capital will come to better their
condition and the capitalist will come to in
vest. In a few years our population will be.
trebled and white labor will abound.
4. The negroes will move southward, until
within thirty years they will be as scarce here
as they are in tho Northern States now. And
why? Because the Southern people will be
unkinl and preiudiced against them No.
But because now that they are free, we shall
become as careless about them as the North
men are, and when we find it to our interest
to employ whites to perform the menial SER
vice they have been performing, with an eye
to self-intercst, we shall not be slow to doit.
If pressed back it will not be the Southern,
but the Northern people and Europe that will
do it. They will leave because the superior
and more energetic whites will take their
places; and as they own no part Of the soil,
;so9n .lsay y, oannnt find employment. thsY
will begin to disappear. The negro prospered
physically and increased in number as a slave;,
but with this, tide of white emigration press
ing forward as the result of his being freed,
VIC do not believe he can now.
Already we hear that the intelligence Offices
will be able to furnish white servants for fam
lilies who wish them, in North Carolina, and
no doubt by the first of January nexti it will
be as easy to. get any kind of white /" hclp"
that may be desired, in that State, as in Balti-
more or New York And when this becomes
to be the case, and the people who have to
hire, find that one Irish or German woman
,can do the labor Of two negro women, like the,
people Of the North they will give the prefer
ence. If the negro is driven out, as we be-.
licvc he will be ultimately, it will not be on
account of persecution by the former owners,
but by the food eff emigration which, had
pressed slavery before it. before the war began,
from Massachusetts to Maryland.
If the negro, would remain here as an ipfe-
rior, not demanutoo much, and perform 'fot
reasonable compensation the labor the country
mustehave, ne might stay this volume of inn
migration to some extent; but if he listens to
the few fanatics who. preach political and 50.
cial equality to him, and aspires to govern,
rather than be governed, the tide will press
forward and cngulph him. Leave, finally, to
make room for the firm tread of the white
man, we Believe he must, but he may prolong
his stay by good behatiorand industry The
same Anglo-Saxon that has pressed him out
of the Northern States is now applying for
that place he has hitherto occupied here, and
unless he can render his labor as valuable and,
his presence as acceptable to the owners ofithe
soil as the more energetic pale-face, he may
take up his bed and walk. ;..s as
Intelligent negroes will do we'll to consider
these things Y
ONE Of the evidences Of the sad decay Of
correct and moral sentiment jn this country is
to be seen in the largo number of divorces
granted by the courts, and the disgraceful
means rcsorted to procure then1a@ sA New
York contemporary states that a's divorce lawr
yer" Of that city has made forty thousand
dollars in fifteen months by managing such
cases thats340 divorces have been granted
BY. the Supreme Court during the3past year,
and that they are going on at 9 rate Of about
q dozen a week, .%a L. 4 n y! M 554. l9,
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