The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-08-30

all the time New plays, II good, win do tho
same; and the managers of our thestres, II they
win keep that single fact in view, may gather
all the money that the people choose to spend
for entertainment, and may put out Of ight
entirely that sickly creature Of fashion and
false taste, the opera.
Our theatres, II the managers do their part
will this winter have an immense season. But
the theatres ought also to receive the attention
Of the public officers on some points. No one
should be allowed to have public theatrical (.
entertainment In any structure from which
every person In It cannot be let out in ton
minutes Tho means Of rapid exit should b
90 obvious that II would not need examination
to show It. II would be al tho better II II
were required that tho auditorium should b
constructed Of uncomfortable material Nor
should any manager Of theatre be allowed to
obstruct the passages of the establishment BY
filing them with additional seats Made all
right in these particulars, and managed with
energy and good sense, the theatres Of this
city would make the fortunes of their owners.
and would become also true temples Of art
in the development Of public taste, and they
would kill the opera altogether.
WHITE AND BLACK LABOR m THE SoUTH.-
We perceive that at different points from vir-
rinia to Texas there are movements afoot for
the introduction of white labor, under the i'm
preston that the emancipated slaves will not
work, and cannot be relied upon if they en-
gave TO 90 to work To considerable extent
this may be true; but still the question recurs,
what will become of these blacks If they be
not made in some way to support themselves'
They will necessarily, as iders and Migrants, be-
come heavy and dangerous burden upon
the community. The war in It's destruction OF
the able-boded white working men Of the South
has created vacuum which, TO ill, will require
some years Of immigration from the North and
from Europe, under the strongest inducements
In the meantime the urgent agricultural wants
of the Southern States, in the way Of labor, can
be met at once by the emancipated slaves, ana
those planters who are disposed in a liberal
spirit to adapt themselves TO the employment
| of their late slaves an freemen are pursuing
! their true policy. On the other hand, the
| planter who turns his niggers adrlft, under
! the idea that he can do better by the employ
ment of white laborers, is setting an example
which, if generally followed up, must inevitably,
from the pressure of hunger, drive the blacks to
systematic spoliations and scenes Of bloody
violence If the blacks are stupid and foolish
in their exaggerated notions of emancipation,
the intelligence Of their late masters must be
kindly used to enlighten them The two raQss,
! about half and half throughout the cotton
States, cannot exist together without harmony,
and the ignorant blacks, accustomed TO tho
guidance of the whites, still look to them for
instruction and employment The Freedmen's
! Bureau, established under the control Of The
army, are doing something to get the emanei-
pated blacks fairly TO work again; but these
bureaus are not equal to the task before them.
It is task which properly dev.olves upon The
late masters of these blacks They still have
their corn and cotton fields, and the laborera
needed to cultivate them are still at their COM
mand, and they must be sustained from the pro
ducts of the soil around them, whether they
cultivate it or not. The simple question before
the responsible Southern landholders ls this
Shall our liberated blacks support themselves
as our laborers, or be supported a. idlers
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