New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-06-17

sheet. in report Of recent "gcneral meeting
of the citizens Of Roanoke County. Virginia,
on tho 9Th inst, avowcdly to consider "our
rotations to the negro population who have,
recently been declared free" This meeting
after due deliberatiop. unanimously agreed on
the following programme.
81 That in tho opinion of this meeting. the best and
most humane mode Of protecting the late slave pOpus
ton of the county from want and suffering and u pro
vent mischief is TO require them to remain at their
former homes and work thoy have hitherto done
that those capable of labor may sustain those who are
not this arrn cement continue until other and better
arrangements can be made If practicable. Should
of special qualities, it's arrangement and amount should
be left TO his former owner or employer
80 That we rW not Employ negro r'mot' me Fr'Nen
permission " hi' former orner; and shat any person
so employ negro, will regard IL as highly improper
and preudical the interest OF the community ana
tho good order OF society and thai ersry means ~ our
porer rH be used 20 return them 10 he'r jormr 0~h" W
employer.
80 That where negroes offer themselves for hire
with the consent Of Their former owner we recommend
that tho rate OF sry dollars bsp1id o. raS IN
addition to food for able coded iaoo''r' ana pro-
porti0r0ts priCe for inferior tdbcrers =, =, p
=" Cold charities" The World calls those OF
the ex.slaveholders for the Freedmen: and, GER.
tainly, that seems to be putting about as fine
point on the matter a. it will bear. First. they
are all required to remain with their old mas
tors, and "work as they have hitherto done, 30
that those capable of labor shall sustain those
who arc not"--that is to say, they are 10 DO IN
effect slaves as before; next, tho planters are
pledged to each other not to hire any negro who
has belonged to another; thirdly. anybody else
who may venture TO hire a Roanoke negro Is
deliberately advised that the operation Will not
be SAFE fourthly, when wages are paid the best
negroes are to have s. per month whereirom TO
clothe themselves and support their families
all but first-cass men to have still less, if any.
thing; though every ono knows that these e1'
masters formerly paid each other from Sl2 70
S25 per month for the hired labor of those same
negroes. And the correspondent who chronicles
these proceedings. adds that
"A number of those who Shareholders refuse To
euroy negrues and have driven many Of them of the
excuse being that they cannot feed them. This may be
irue in cases but In otaT- We suspect proceeds
from diferen: motives"
Yet these elected negroes. whom their late
masters will neither employ nor tolerate, are
not allowed to work for any one else without
written permission from those masters-which,
Of course, will not be given. Yet complaint IS
made that the negroes Congregate in cities
when they can find work and bread nowhere
else and Gen. Gregg officially proclaims TO
them that
Il, j, only ~ remaining tie plantations and work
ing that they oan hope 10 b. happy"
And the correspondent gives the Roanoke
planters his benodiction, As follows:
at is gratifying sign that some rcsl movement is
being sde bring In the thousand blaot wanderers
whose labor needed build fences ard reap the crops
and who II not included the fold will die by
hundreds next Winter beside pilasing. ThsrTsnsnf
fAai hired nsSoes o.eesr iar ornsd on" 10 al aA
becoming uory co.riHetnR.'
We should think il might be.
In simple truth, there is work enough a. the
South. and means Of paying fairly forit; but the
riU ia wanting. On every side, railroads,
bridges, roads, fences, buildings, &c. as vol IA
crops, demand instant attention. -Four times
the number Of labOrors now in tho South could
at once and for years be profit ably employed
there at an average compensation OF s. per day
the year round (tho laborer boarding himself, }
enhancing the value Of southern real estate by
at least 10 per cent Per annum. But the e1-
shareholders are sulky, savage, yenemous.
They arc on the plane of the boy, deservedly,
conclusiycly threshed by his schoolmate, yot
still able to say, II can't lick you; but can
make mouths at your sister," ChastiSing tho
Yankees hos proved too big job; but the ne
groes are powcrless and the patriarchs are
making them smart for their new freedom. The
Uorlds correspondent says:
THE physical prostra,ion OF tho South Ia reflected
in the mental. The feelings Of men who have before
lived in u1ury indoleuse and spendcr when reduced
a. rag. and beggary from the condition OF lords OF The
soil to penncss paupers may be imagined better tlaa
described But their poverty is noS the greatest Attic.
ton The failure Of their cause the hard necessity Of
accepting revolution they have been studously and
taught to dycad and oespi.s Is far more
depressing than simple poverty. The upper Glasses are
moody. silent, and sulleu."
They will gradually feel better; but mean
time they are starving good many of the poor
10 death quite needlessly. There would soon
be work and bread for Gil if each were only will.
ing TO live and let live.
THE COMING FOURTH.