Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1865-12-07
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and aptitude which a stranger can only OBJ
tain by experience. tits, therefore, of ths
first importance that such policy should
be adopted as will enable the farmers and
planters to employ the negro, and that be
should remain cheerful and contented.
But there isanother consideration prompt.
ing us to legislate humanely and justly fol-
the negro. He has been born and reared
among rs, and while he has, unfortunately,
qualities that stamp his inferiority to the
white man, he possesses others that invite
our respect As class, during the war,
their loyalty to their owners and to society
was worthy of the highest commentator.
In no single instance, even where the slave
population preponderated over the whites
as an hundred to one, was there an outbreak
or insurrection. With full knowledge
On their part of the nature of the contest,
and the deep personal interest they had in
its issue, is it not wonderful that they quiet.
ly pursued their labor, aud mainly produced
the supplies that fed our armies? If there
be reason to complain that the negro has
been emancipated, in derogation of the
right aud interest of the owner, such COM
plant cannot be lodged against him what
ever of i'll feeling exists in the minds of
former owners for the present state of af.
fairs, it is not just that it should be visited
on him. Interest and humanity require us to
treat him kindly, and to elevate him, NOR:
ally and intellectually; it will make him a
better laborer, neighbor and man. Sudden
ly relieved from the restraints of the servile
condition in which he was born and reared,
his ignorance can excite no surprise; nor
can we hope that he will eschew vice and
crime. If be is to live in our midst, none
are so deeply interested in enlightening and
elevating him as ourselves
The Constitution of the United States
recognized property in slaves, aud an ap-
preparation was made by Congress to indem.
Nifty slave owners, in the District of Colum.
bia, when slavery was abolished there in
1851. therefore cherish the hope that
Congress, will, as soon as the public debt is
provided for, make some just and equitable
arrangement, to make the citizens Of the
South some compensation for the slaves
manumitted BY the United States authori-
ties ~
The pursuits of South Carolina have not
heretofore been sufficiently diversified. Ag.
riculture was the great business of the
State. The mechanic, the manufactures,
and the artisan have not been encouraged
to migrate hither and the native population
have not embarked In these employuents
The result has been that most of the pro.
ceeds of the two great staple crops--cotton
and rice-have been expended without the
limits of the State, in purchasing such ne.
cesssry articles as should have been fabrica
ted or manufactured within our borders
Every facility and encouragement should
be given by the State Government and by
the people, to immigrants from the North
and from Europe, so that this great defcien-
cy in skilled labor may at an early day, be
supplied. Under our former system of la.
Dor, Immigration was discountenanced from
an apprehension that the immigrants, when
they located In the country, would prove
hostile and dangerous to the institution of
slavery from want of knowledge and sym.
pathy in it. The great change in the con.
dition of the negroes has removed this OBJ
jection, aud the material prosperity of the
State imperatively demands great increase
of agricultural and skilled mechanical la
Dor. -
The present is most suspicious time for
embarking in manufacturing pursuits. The
high tariffs which is likely to be continued
for many years without material reduction,
promises such protection to this interest as
will enable every branch Of manufactures to
be developed. The extensive water.power
in the central, Northern and Western por..
tions of the State-the salubriousness of
the climate-the equable temperature
the facilities for transportation over the
railroads penetrating every section of the
State, invite capitalists at home and abroad,
to invest their money in these enterprises
promising such handsome remuuerating re.
wards. Companies are already being or.
ganized to negotiate the selling aud pur-
chasing of lands and manufacturing sites,
and wherever citizen owns water-power
aud is unable to improve it with his own
means, let him invite his peighbors to form
a company and if that fails, invite stran-
gers; and if that fails, let him sell to those
who will improve and develop it.
By well directed enterprise and energy
every water power in the State, in few
brief years, will be decorated with manu-
factory or a machine shop. The accumu-
lation of capital and the great Influx of
population it will bring will stimulate in
duatry. The farmer haVinga home market
can diversity his labor and make it more
profitable. Activity will be impaired to
their owners, fostered and protected as they
will be for many years by high protective
tariffs. A harmonious combination of az.
riculture, commerce and manufactures--
and al of them are inviting in this State
will bring US wealth and prosperity. We
can then build up school houses and church.
es and colleges, and make new Carolina NOT
unworthy of the fame and renown of old
Carolina.
Our first great want is enterprise and in.
dustry-if we will them we command them.
Our next great want is skilled labor-this
must come from the North and from Eu.
rope it will not come if We do not invite
it and extend the hand of friendship to the
immigrant. If he is looked upon with