New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-05-24
SOUTHERN LABOR.


amid their ashes and ruins. Fields untitled;
farmers without Animal or seed; million
willows aud orphans furnishing III rags; whoic
COMMITTEES v..,-efrom 1T least half the buildings
have been burned; the charred remnants oi
mills. factories and workshops almost every
VIII, re; rivers without steamboats, and railroads
without bridge3--suoh IS the south to-day
And. when it is indispensable. not to the pros
merit, hui TO the very existence of her people.
that tue South shall for the present be Il hive oil
industry end prcduction--cyery one working
with hoe aud spade, or even with bare hands OF
n bit Of Single, to get something planted
toward a crop this season, the cry " raised that
LG6or is scarce at the Souil--that tie Poor
Whites lack the habit OF industry, while the
Blacks identify freedom with idleness- 20
that the more energetic planters talk OF sending
North for German or other foreign-born laborers
to help them in their urgent need.
This representation, We are sure does MUS
tico TO both classes Cf the Southern Poor. The
rural Whites are not, indeed, habituated -
persistent, energetic labor. Living on the
wooded outskirts of great mons plantations,
hunting, fishing, with COW rurnng at large,
ana pig ditto; often buying Of Aegro,' for
a song products stolen from their masters
stores; making an odd - to $40 occasionally
by tracking out and hunting down a fugitive
slave, there are good many Whites at the
South 20 whom steady daily labor does not seem
natural, and who would rather live by almost
anything else. The Blacks, on The other hand,
are Injured TO labor, but are naturally fearful
that they will be reduced again to bondage.
Dstrust is the slaves first lesson; he is early
taught 20 regard the master race as his enemies
and opprossors, and to put sinister eonSiruc-
ton on their every act and word. Sanbo has a
painful recollection that he was till yesterday a
slaves to-day, he is free; but how Is II az to to-
morrow Old Ma,sa admits (rather sulkily)
that he is now free, the Yankee soldiers being at
hand: but next Fall they VIII 6e gone; and
how shall he be assured that MasSa viii then
pay him the wages he now promises May be
not give him a savage Jogging instead, telling
him TO 90 back 10 his work and never speak Of
freedom ana wages again OF he will catch
another and severeri Herein the negro argues
logically from all the premises within
his reach. He naturally says, Better go
hungry and ragged till the Main Question is set
tied, oan but starve at the worst, and, ii
must Gle, will at least die free" Hence, We
have widely differed from most Of our friends IN
preierring to close the Rebellion by treaty or
capitulatiOn, rather than by its unconditional
overthrow; for il seemed to us Of the highest
consequence that the freedom Of the Blacks
should be placed under the guarantee of an ex-
plict compact to which representatives Of their
late masters were subscribing parties. large
majority, however, have thought otherwise
and the r view has prevailed.
We hear that many Of the Blacks, thoroughly
distrustilg their old masters, place all conf
dence in the Yankees who have recently come
among them, and viii work for these on almost
any terms We regret this; for while many Of
these Yankees will Justify that confidence,
others will grossly abuse 1t. NevEngland pro-
duces many o dob st specimens Of the human
race, and, along with these, some Of the very
beings that ever stood on two legs
cunning, rapacious. hypocritical, ever ready to
skin flint with borrowed knife and make OOr
others) soup out Of the pee;ngs. This class
soon become too well known at home" run
out" as the phrase is-when they wander all
over the earth. snufiling and swindling, to tho
injury and shame of the land that bore them
and cast them out. Now let it be generally
by the ignorant Blacks Of the
South that Yankee, because Yankee, is
necessarily their friend, ard this unclcan brood
will oyersprcad The South like locusts. starting
schools and prayer meetings, at every cross
roads, getting hold Of abandoned or confiscated
plantations and hiring laborers right and left,
cutting timber here, trying out tar and tur.
pentinc there, and growing corn. cotton, rice
and sugar which they will have sold at the
earliest day and yun away with the proceeds,
leaving the negroes in rags and foOdless, with
Winter Just coming on. Trust thyself" is the
very first maxim to be impressed on tho ignor-
ant Blacks; take no mans fair words as sub
staltal verities, but. insist on being paid as
you go.
Cash Payment-so much for so much-we
beg the new Superintendent Of Frcedmen's AZ
lairs to make this the tombstone Of all pro-
LESSONS. No one has moral right to ask these
ragged, hungry beings to wait till the crop is
sold for their pay. To do this is to share oil the
risks Of cultivation, and why should they share
The risk who arc not 10 share the profit They