The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1865-12-09

The New York World, of the list inst, has very
sensible editorial on the "Necd of the South" We
copy tho article entire.
THE NEED OF THE SOUTH.
We havo seen a letter from q very intelligent ex-
planter to friend in this city, in reference to the
probabilities of the carly resumption Of ordinary
work i'll the Southern States. In his Judgment, as
in ours the first great necessity, the second great
the intorest of whites and blacks to settle the in
tercourso between them and the relations between
employer and employed.
at this moment is Federal legislation, Neither
the planter nor tho negro IL taught or allowed to
rely upon himself. The Freednen's Bureau un-
dertakcs to adjust that which is incapable of nd-
justment, except by law greater than any law of
Congress- the law of supply and demand.
should cease to exist, and that tho negro should
DO "lord of himself" Whether that lordship shall
be q ''heritngo of woe" is. n matter which the
man does. One of tho small falacies of the Tri-
bune is to assume that the difficulty about willing
labor on the part Of the Negro is the neglect to to
the Free States which is hired, is hired by tho
year, and no farmer could afford to pay hands
eight months in tho year when laborers nre plenty
ers are i'll demand In harvest time the priee Of
q days labor is three times that of the average.
Fixity of labor is, therefore, essential. The
great trouble with tho planter is to have
constant labor i'll picking time. There it is
q question of ruin to be without it, No planter
will work plantation unless he can compel
labor at that period to fulfil its contract honestly.
Here there are two means keeping back large
portion OF tho wages accumulated so that the Ia
borer forfss Is them if he fails to fulfil his agree
police A man here must provide for winter, and
he must provide for summer. He freezes and he
burns. But in sem-tropical climate tho negro
for eight months does not burn, and need not la
Dor; he can live almost the life of savage. There
are, indeed, four cold months; but if twothirts of
the year farors sayagery, and only one-third civ-
to oai.l "a nSrb i.,I rr,
the day In q half or quarter civilized being. Our
State laws cnable the Northern farmer to enforce
the fnltillment OF contracts. That is about all the
Southern planter needs from his State. From the
tederal Government ho wants nothing.
The white man OF the United States is very
artificial bcinG.the creature of centuries of pro-
grcsslVc civilization. His wants and appetitcs arc
numerous, and he works to crafty tllcm Tho
original love of lazncss, inherent in all men, has
fcrent from black man South as horse from tho
wild ass. The first thing the negro should be told
is: We have made an experiment; we have, at an
enormous cost, giving You the opportunity of
showing whether you arc capable of becoming an
equal citizen of the United States. You must show
that you are; you can show that you are. AS for
the right OF suffrage, men generally did not pos
scss Il Ill New York; fifty years ago, scarcely i'll
any State of the Union. You not fitted for it;
you will not be fitted for it till Your intelligence,
s3mbrety sol and habits of industry are fixed facts.
All depends upon yourselves If you make rs dill
gent, industrious and sober population us the
white, you must, in time be equal with the white;
IL Hot, you Will uWlnule llkG the Indian tribes.
So long as the Northern white stands between
the black and the Southern white, so long there
will bo no harmony. There is a natural and mu-
tual feeling between the white and the black
there, which must be out, just like the feel
ing between the South and the rest Of the Union.
II the negro has been unjustly treated, rs he has
been continually told by the fanatics he must feel
injustice. II the white man has been deprived of
what he believed to be his property, he has con-
ssciousness OF being tho victim Of injustice, and
the exslave is the living reminder Of it. No legis-
lation, no reasoning, can efface either of those
feelings. Time will.
What is wanted for the negro and not lit 10
knowledge that the first law of labor is the law of
hberty-whch means liberty to hire and be hired
without congressional interference, and with 10
more State interference than the enforcement of
contracts.