American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1865-11-08

Our supplies of food and clothing are not
quite exhausted, and hence we have not
been reached by famine. But when you
come to look closely into the condition of
the people, especially with reference to
the future, the prospect is dark and for
bidding indeed. If there was work for
everybody to do there would be no diff
Guilty about it 1t is mistake to suppose
that the Southern people are ashamde to
work
"Let US look into the matter closely.
Suppose man is a preacher; will be-
gin with divinity first He can preach
still where his church is left standing !;
but his congregation have not the money
to pay him Sl00 Il quarter, where formerly
they paid him $500 Suppose he is a
lawyer; in the first place there is no law,
as there never is where there is no bust
ness; and if there was, his clients cannot
pay him any money The same is the
case with the physician. People getsick
as usual, and they send for their doctor,
but they cannot pay him money foN his
services. Suppose he is a merchant, his
bushel Of 'Codfederate' paper left on his
hands won't bay goods in the Northern
cities; and if he could get goods on cred
| it. his old customers have no money to
/ buy with. Suppose heis a school-teach-
er, the parents Of children cannot pay
for their schooling. Suppose he is a car
penter, there are no houses being built
! Suppose he Is tailor or a shoemaker, or
a saddier; everybody is accommodating and
trying tormake every article Of old cloth
ingOr of other domestic uses lost as long
as possible. And yet every one Of these
men has his family to support. How is
it with the farmer? Formerly he had
his regular income from what he made to
SELL If he had no money, he could get
credit until he could dispose ofhis forth
coming crop; now his resources are gone.
His slaves have left him, or if ttey re-
main, it is to do not tmorG than half work /,
raising bare supply ef. corn; for there is
no cotton, tobacco, rice, sugar, &c, (the'
articles which formerly brought money in
the country. and thus went iuto all the
channels of circulation,) being gone
Consequently he cannot promise to pay
money positively at given time, even il
there was any one to loan it to him
Banks cannot go into operation for the
purpose of aiding and sustaining credit
first, because there is no capital on which
to base them; and secondly the borrow
ers would haveno reliance on their abili-
ty to meet the payments when due
Therefore, what sort of work can all
these classes Of people go to? They
can erect manufacturing establishments
and 90 to manufacturing, because that re-
yuires capital, and they have none. The
same of mining; the same of eommerce.
To build vessels requires money, and also
skill in these peculiar branches Of labor,
which must come from abroad. After
weighing these considerations, what then,
would Sho man say who supposed he had
disposed of the difficulty by saying, 'let
everybody 60 to work 2 Would he say,
let everybody go to work in the fields,
raising corn, cotton, tobacco, &C.? The
only reply to that suggestion is this: sup
pose the very state of things | have de-
scribed as existing here in the South
were, by some great reyulsion, to sudden
ly take place in the State OF Pennsylva-
nsa, or New York would any sensible
aud rejecting man, in either State, sug-
gost as a remedy for the evil, let every
body go to work in cultivating the soil?'"
We beg the Northern people to con-
slider these truths when they are asked to
contribute of their plenty to the relief
of Southern need. There is friehtful
alnohnt of suffering at the South, espec-
tally among the widows and orphans Of
those who lost their lives in the War
Food is scarce, while almost everything
else is still scarcer Millions are hungry
and ragged who would gladly work for
what they need. But they have little
or no capacity for earning money, and
there is very little of nancy or moneys
worth to be earned. There should be
generous contributions from the North
the coming Winter to keep the Southern
people from suffering severely for the
barest necessaries of life"
But when Mr.. Raynor comes to speak
of the Southern Blacks, who were recent
ly his slaves and those of his neighbors.
he forgets all he has said of the impossi-
bility Of finding work--or rather, pay for
work-and accuses them of all manner
of reckless and unmitigated idleness.-
Though nobody has money or food to
spare for labor, and they have no land. he
blames them for not being constantly and
proftably employed Though he consid
ers Slavery a curse, and says Ono dohbt
truly that his negroes were never any
profit to him, he holds that the South has,
lost 81, 900, 600, 600 by Emancipation.-
Though a humane and considerate mas
ter, who always regarded Slavery as an.
evil--that is, for the Whites-all his old
prejudice is aroused by seeing himself
surrounded by free negroes and he wants
them driven from the country before he
can again feel at home in it. On this
point, he says:
In this State, public opinion is unan-
imous in favor of the separation of the
White and Black races and | learn that
the same view is gaining strength rapidly
all over the South. You may RELY on it.
the two races cannot co-exst in the same
country where there is anything like the