The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1865-11-01
How cur Agriculture nav be Restork.

how 0uI Ag1lGu1tlI6 iAdJ u AsSSsSLf f.
Under the above head, the New Orleans Picayuf, Of
the 18th uit., has some weltimed suggestions, Which
accord with our views After giving suconct account
of the deplorabe condition Of agricultural interests,
and the consequences likely to result therefro uuess
some new system be inaugurated, the editor uttFly
discreds the idea that our lands cannot be made vapa
Bile without save-labor which is impossbilty.
The Picavune believes there is not Of ourbot
tom lands which cannot be made to produce four orYe
hundred dollars per year. without the aid Of slaye9or
and discourses thus on the subject;
ave believe that these lands be made to prodee
large returns BY free labor. By white labor and by lie
labor Of freed blacks What is needed is a systemic
organise and put into operation the labor which maybe
embarked in this field and the capital to start and as
tain it until its fruits can be realised.
eve are at present without this system and tbs
capital.
eve have had many plans and schemes TO render or
only agricultural labor available, but they have ben
the experiments Of politicians and theorists, withqt
knowledge Of people the condition of the county
or the real character Of the colored Iaborers Thir
plans, even if theoretically sound and sensible haze
been thwared il this State BY the constant changes ad
decentralization Of the negroes produced by the nterF
ence Of the agents Of the reedmens bureau-which 4
reference has led the negroes believe that they nay
violate their contracts leave the plantations, and
any thing they ike with impunity and safety Thor
employers have means Of coercing or compelling
them discharge their duties and fulfill their contract
Without security, news capital will embark in tP
culture Of the staples and the old planters are all to
heavily in debt destitute ofmeans, enable them
operate in their line on ever SO small scale.
"The negroes, thus rendered unreliable and unavail;
bic for the cultivation Of the plantations may in time
brought, by their necessities to do some work; and
there is much hope of anyo governmental or legisa
tive measures being enacted to that end we be-
eve that our only hope rests upon natural causes an
the logic Of events, to cur fields from desolato
abandonment, and our agriculture from exhaustion
Those canses and events to whichour rejecting arl
practical property owners look for relief and restor
ton of prosperity and production are the introd-
ton and systemisation on large SCALE Of immigrant
industry and labor. Il is believed thati large cls
Of the sturdy and hcnest laborrs the old country en-
be induced to emigrate and settle rich ans,
they would not only cultivate them most successfully
and proftably, but might by their example, inducehe
negroes to work faithfully
ITO secure this new class Of laborcrs il viii be noes
sary for the land owners to divide and subdivdc the
present uuwieIdly estates into farms and to sell Grease
them on the most favorable terms It is beevedo be
quite practicable to diae the business Of making ugar
from curating the cane, so that the mill ownrs or
essees could either buy the from the farmes or
grind it on terms similar to those which exist in nGth
ern ATTITUDES between the miller and tie grainorO
ducers Its believed by many sensible and pracoble
persons, that planters having large bodies of Ind,
would find it to their interest to sell portions of her
lands at very low rates to immigrant laborers ofthe
class described as their cultivation would great in
crease the value of the lands retained by the proprietor
f. by arrangements Of this character, large clss of
white cultivators could be induced to to hesouth
and to occupy and cultivate the lands the problem,
now so difficult to solve to the disposition ancman
agement Of the colored laborer would be slved
They would then no longer monopose this Industry;
they would then dictate terms and be relieved all
wholesome restraints of competition. The influences
which compel the white to labor keep his nth
to be sober and industrious, would then reach and
stimulate tie colored man. 1t would then be firIy
tested if he can in a state offreedom maintain andake
care Of himself and become a useful and productive
member Of society
GAN of us are interested in the satisfactory solution
of this question Those who ePresent that peope
our planters whose welfare and subsistence depeu
upon the industry and fidelity Of the only laborers the
have not disposed to facilitate and promote in
every way they can the welfare the improvement and
or misguided zealots, who have truth, reason or
probability to justify their opinions or impuations,-
No people have so great an interest in Will 60 far,
to realise and ensure the success Of the experiment
render these people capable of fulfilling the duties offs
moral industrial and productive class as the owners Of
the lands the south. They only doubt whether that
great object be done under the present system,
rather want Of all SYSTEM BY which this class pet
ted and pampered into disgust for the only kind Of
labor that can save country from desoation and
poverty and themselves from misery vagaboudism and
hopeless demoralsation Nothing, it is believed, will
20 farther to arrest aud this evil influence than
the introduction of large force of white laborers and
small farmers and to that end planters and all 9th
ers interested in the welfare Of the south should direct
their energies intelligence and all their resources in
vng in that behalf foreign and northern capital which
cannot be more proftaby employed than in this simple
and practicable mode Of redeeming and reinvgoratng
the most lucrative agriculture which can tempt capital
or industry
CoaE HONE IF you WANT TO BE PARDoNEp--The New
Orleans True Delta of the oath ult, says We see it
mentioned that some American gentlemen now in
France who had identified themselves with the cause
Of the late Conederacy and had taken an active part as
agents Of the government thereof, being DESTROYS to
take the oath of allegiance and reinsate themselves in
all the rights of citizens wrote to that effect to the di
pomatc and consular agents Of the United States in
France The government at Washington has, however,
decided that ull American citizens compromised BY the
late warmust home take the oath of allegiance,
<e~----
CoLoRED 0RpHASs-We publish below an order from
Gen Fullerton to the effect that negro orphans now
by the T. s. government will be bound out
as apprentices to good aud responsible persons. We
print the order think another step in the right
direction
HEADQUARTERS BUREAU OF REFUGEES,
AYR " 4B4N s 9S5E nJ J. 1895 .
Notice-Whereas the United States government is
for thn nrnhnns of freedman in