The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1865-06-14
Plantation Regulations.

regulations prescribed by Gen. Hurlbut foi,Sa
department IF the Gulf" and we can com -
no other conclusion but that, if these regulate,
he enforced in all the Southern States, the M
duction Of cotton and sugar is at an end ",
are i1 possession of no statistics showing n,
rates of hire paid TO factory hands in the Sorfb
and in England, but gentleman OF very erear
Intelligence has informed US that he wac, for
come years, connected with factory in Virginia
and was familiar with all it's practical workings
In this factory women we're paid So per month
and children 81 The very first class weave.
never received more than S. per month. TIE
operatives were supplied With unfinished tene-
snents and clothed and fed themselves Tbev
paid their owa medical bills, and time los,
through sickness was deducted We know tina,
the rates paid to factory hands North aud IN
Europe raust lie considerably less. The reru.
Iations Of General Hurlbut prescibe the follow
ing schedule
In addition 10 Just treatment, wholesome "a
tons, comfortable clothing, quarters, fuel and
medical attendance, aud the opportunity for in
srrnction Of children, the planter shall paw to
the lahoger as folloes; Male hauds-frst class
$40 Der month; second class, IS per moth
third elass, Sc per month Female hands-fst
class, So per month second class, S. per
mouth third class. SIS per month. BOYS, s.
per month giels 81 per month. In addition
to this the planter must pay 81 year poll tax
on each of the hands.
Ii will thus Ee seen that besides requiring The
negroes TO be furnished with food clothing fuel
and medical attendance actually higher rates of
compensation are prescribed for them than are
acquired by thu laboriug whites Of the North,
who support themselves If this policy be pur-
sued generally we may take It tor granted that
the negro has ceased TO be laborer /, is Ut
terly iHpossib!a to successfully raise cotton and
sugar on such terms. The laborer is too dear
to make it remuusrative, and We may assume,
under such STATE Of circumstances, that the
great staple productions Of the South will no
longer he raised The planters will necessarily
abandon their plantations and turn what little
capital they may have into other channels
Large bodies Of productive lands will be lett
waste aud will not pay their taxes An in
mense source Of revenue to the National and
State Governments will be DESTROYED Tie
planter will be unable to liquidate his home in
debtedness, and our merchants in town win be
unable to pay their Northern creditors Thus
over a hundred millions Of dollars owed to
Northern men sill be lost. Both sections will
be alike injured and eventually the North will
suffer more than the South. The mercantile
relations will, to great extent, be broken
Large selling ard commission houses that have
had life through the planting interests Of the
South will have. ceased to exist, and CONNER
cial ruin will stalk through the land,
Southern consumption has hitherto been lha
vitality Of Northern manufactures. The South
has paid for Nothern goods with her produr-
tons and furnished to Northern looms their
materials for fabrics. The moment the staples
Of the South ccase to be produced, the reeipso-
cal relation of the Two sections Instantly ceasr.
Northern manufactures will angush and die.
Having no home productions to exchange for
foreign goods, the South viii be compelled 10
manufacture for herself and when she tinds tue
System Of factory labor to be so much cheaper
than the enforced labor OF the blacks, under the
prescriptions oil the Notional Executive each
State will make herself independent of foreign
or Northern manufactured goods. Texas will
turn her attention to the culture of cereals and
from her immense capacity for such purpose,
and the comparative case of their cultivation,
will export -four and grain in very large guam
ttics Hitherto the Southern States have given
under their system of compulsory labor, their
entire attention to rearing their staples, and
have been markets for the wheat and grain Of
the North West Under such regulations as
we have been discussing the tables will be turn
ed, and the Southern States will enter into di-
rect competition with the cereal and wheat-ras-
ug States of the North-We est. Our -four stands
the test Of heat and transportation better than
that raised in more Northern ATTITUDES, and will
be CORRESPONDENCE in demand.
1t is well-attested faet-admitted by the
Yankees themselves--that negroes, as a class,
will not work unless compelled Ii the planters
are forced by system Of uuremunerative labor,
to abandon their plantations, the blacks will
cease to work Idle, lazy and thiftless, they
will be turned loose by thousands, to be support
ed by the public They have been proclaimed
free by the National authority. The Federal
government has undertaken to destroy their
former relations, and, of course, upon it will
deYolve the care and maintenance Of the black
race For this purpose the people Of the whole
country, North and South, viii have to contr-
butte. The alternative is for the black to
starve.
We think it susceptible of demonstration
that the failure to raise Southern staples, will
at once discover the business relations of the
North and the South The North will lose the
immense debt due to it By Southern merchants.
Its manufacturing interests will be destroyed
1t will lose its market for meat and -four and
in lieu thereof will have formidable competi-
ton. 1t will be called upon to furnish its pro
portion to support the idle blacks. Its com
mercial prosperity will be destroyed. The
South will be, for many years, in a state of an
archY and confusion, aud long time will have
( to elapse before its business relations can be
/ placed upon new basis Financial ruin will
I come 10 very MANY or her people We very