New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-08-29
WHITE LABOR AT THE SOUTH
COTTON IN 1865.

300. 900 bales at this port and New-OrleaAS
only with As. 900 at Mobile, the quantity on
the market must be fully 800 900 bales; and, lift
be Gas appcarS) still coming in at the rate oil 3d.
900 bales per week. there can hardly be less than
One Million bales to-day in the country, worth,
where it lies, not less than $3.50, 0O0 900 in gold
and of still greater value at Liverpool. We
shall probably export enough of this to give us
at least f15, 600 900 sterling to draw against,
which is no small item.
As vet. the Southern Railroads are mainly
unrepaired the Southern rivers steambOatlcsS
or too low to be navigated, so that much OF this
Cotton nav be kept back till November: but it
is all good as the Wheat" and more likely
to rule higher in price than lower in Liverpool
six months hence.
For, while the old stock proves larger than
was estimated the growing crop cannot exceed
One Million bales, and is more likely TO fall
below that mark Texas may have half crop;
but the Dissemination of Southern labor Is so
complete, while the collapse of the Rebellion
occurred 30 late in the season, that the one
planted is very small. The South will make
Corn and Pork enough for her own subsistence;
but hel export staples will this year be grown
so meagerly that they cannot fail to advance IN
price Cotton may be lower next month or
next Fall than it is to-day; but we are conf
dent that it will rule higher in Liverpool next
March than it does to-day.
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consider the prospect, and judge whether money
or brains can be employed more advantageousiy
than in growing Cotton. Good plantations,
convenient to railroads or nayigable streams,
can be bought in abundance for so to 800
per acre; and it is no longer necessary to in
vest twice as much in labor as you pay for
land. There are laborers in full supply; never
yet having received any wages, they can be
hired at reasonable rates; and, if treated hu-
namely and as men, they are as docile and
cheerful workers as can anywhere be found.
And. while we hear from good many ex-
shareholders who complain that Z" free niggcrs
won't work" or can't be depended on. we
have never yet seen or heard of a Northern
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the labor he wanted, at reasonable rates, and
whenever he needed it. If there is an eXcep-
ton to this rule, we will gladly hear of it,.
Does any one know an instance wherein a
Northern "nigger-worShiper" had to give up
a Southern plantation or other business enter
prise. mainly because "nigger-labor can't be
depended on?" Please all speak at once
The Herald has q letter from Baton Rouge,
La, of the 18th inst, which says
There several men from the Free States settling
here but il requires general immigration TO affect
the opinions and policy Of the State to any extent II
is only necessary to know the advantages Offering
themselves to FreeState men to induce immigration
sufficient Lands. good tabe cotton and sugar lands
are cheap and labor will be cheap for man knorH
among The negroes as Yankee. They beere in Yankees
Then ,eiU 20 their bottom dollar on them. And notwth
standing the numerous complaints circulated 10 the
effect that they leave their places Of work out of pure
lazness then ,oiH pork steadily If treated right. and
thew believe that Yankee will treat them right They
canno, comprehend that he is of the same make as
'Secesh and they stick to him."
We fear that these simple, ignorant souls
are sometimes taken in by their belief III
Yankees, for some of them are not worthy
of it. But the fact that any one who will treat
negroes as men, and deal honestly with them,
can get enough Of them to work, is undenabe.
They refuse to work only where they are paid
mainly in cowhide, applied not to their feet but
TO their backs, by men who hold that a
"nigger" can't possibly take care of himself
without a master to spend his earnings and
make him know his place
We say. then, to men OF means and intelli-
gence, Gold-mines may be rich-we have some
letters from Nevada affirming astounding new
discoveries to print so soon as we can make
room for them-but we believe no mines on
earth ever paid SO well in the average as the
Cotton lands of the South, lskillfully farmed,
with adequate capital will do for the next two
or three years. And, as for rude manual Labor,
you can get enough Of it at fair prices wherever
you need it, prorided the Freedmen's Bureau
shall be satisfied that you surely can and will
pay for it.
But some write us from the.South that they
want White labor; and there are probably some
large landholders who must have that or none;
since the negroes cherish unpleasant remem.
brances of their past tyrannies, perfdies and
,ruelties. We have been written to inquring
rs to the parts of Europe from which White
abor can best be procured. To all inquirers
We say. You need not 60 to Europe; there is
llways Labor in abundance to be had in this
Nd other Atlantic cities. Aud 1t is sure to be |