Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-10-25

Under this caption the Louisville Journal dis
cusses the question Of negro labor. the necessity
OF compelling the Freedmen not only to work
10 procure their own subsistence but contribute
alike with the balance Of the industry Of the
country TO The wants aud support Of the Govern
msnt. With tho grea. mass of the emancipsted
blacks nothing bu. force. the most stringent re-
gulations rigidly enforced, will accomplish the
end. They will not work voluntarily. This has
been demonstrated. They prefer idleness to any
effort 10 procure their support by their own labor.
The great body look to the Government for sup
~sistence. They are impressed with the idea that
liberty means freedom from labor. And this
idea is strengthened by constitutional Incidence
and a dependence upon L superior race. Ii is a
mistake when il is supposed that the people of
the South desire TO withhold from .he Freedman
his legal rights and the protection of law. With
them the great anxiety il 10 ascertain whether
the emsncipated negro will labor and provide
for themselves the same as the laboring men of
the North. They are not only willing to
give them work, but at a just compensation.
But the obligations are not all on one side La
Dor cannot be made profitable or remunerativc
unless the labOrer iulflls his duty to the en-
ployer. This is now the problem with the
Southern people: How can the negro be com
PEELED to work. Unless they can be. the black
population in the South IL worse than useless /.
They become 4 burden, instead of contributing to
the general welfare. The Louisville Journal takes
the ground that the negro must work" and as
it il a question which will force itself upon the
attention Of the country. we reproduce lie views
upon the subject. which are alike sensible and
practical. II says:
Our dispatches say that General GRKaoHr in
Texas aud General FuLLEsroN in Louisiana have
issued circulars for general distribution in those
States, the chief object Of which Is to inform the
freedmen that they must work General Fisk
has been e1erting himself in Alabama and Ten
nessee in the same direction.
1T appears that in some portions of the South
freedmen have refused to enter into contracts
extending beyond Christmas. in the idea that the
ment will about that time present them
all with farms, agricultural implements. seeds.
aud probably With cattle, horses, carriages
mules. etc.
The colored people who entertain notions OF
this kind are those whom the radical politicians
of the country wish To enfranchise instantsue
ously and universally. These negro IDEAS de-
velop how we'll qualified The freedmen are to be
invested with q portion of the governing power
of the country, and they are rather impressive
commentaries upon the radical wish aforesaid.
TL--o,t1 croura1 togetker epa r,,,er-
plated in juxtsxposition.
The absurd notion that the Government will
present the freedmen with well-stocked farms,
etc. has been put into their hsads by white men.
Ar Officer of high rank in the United States SER
vice. who has bad good opportunities for knoS-
ing. told us az much not many weeks ago in our
Office. Being naturally credulous. the negroes
have. it appears, caught at the idea, and seem
disposed, TO a considerable event, to act upon il,
hence the efforts Of the officers OF the Freedmcn's
Bureau TO disabuse their minds and to impress
upon them the truth that freedom doesn't mean
idleness or the right 20 live either a. the er-
pense of the General or any State Government.
THE great difficulty. now that the restraints OF
slavery have been renewed from the negro, will
-se TO make him work aud nsin,ain himself This
he must be made TO 90. Nobody can be sup
ported in Idleness in this country. IL il land OF
freedom, but that doesn't mean freedom from
labor. There is no emancipation from that,
and. if there could be, il would be new curse
. second fall Of man Industry is The gres,
primal source not merely Of competence and in
dependence. no; merely OF self respect and man
hood aud womanhood, bat also OF heallh and in
tesrity, of every manly and womanly virtue
grace and adjournment IL is the strength and
glory not less of individual families than of that
gres, aggregation of families and persons which
forms the State, and which Is everything that
there is Of the living. breathing Republic which
IL no, inauimste and soulless.
There never was a. hour when labor was IN
greater demand than al this time. The sirength
Of the country for the last four or Eve yesrs has
bsse chiefly devoted 10 destruction and mutual
paralysis That period has passed. aud ,he bG-
sinsss now IS recuperation. IL Is work, work,
work. e~very~hsrs. IL 10 labor with pay. and
good psy The cry is for laborers The soil