The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1865-07-08
The Labor Ouestion.

not always been satisfactory, even IN coun.
tries where both time and experience have
aided n The solution of the pf0blem.A II Is
not surprising therefore that between for.
mer masters and bondmen all things are
as yet in very tied condition. While
in some instances white citizens are yet I'M
able to comprehendI the fact that there is
no more slavery, the great mass ofthe peO,'
pie are disposed 10 acquiesce in state of
things which seems to them to be an un-
mitigated evil. In some cases Southern
papers ask that the negro be compelled to
work, saying, Have we not already suffer-
ed enough T, 1t would not be unwise for
such ihquifers to reflect whether they may
not expect to suferastill more until they
are willing to admit the negro to equal laws,
just wages, and fair treatment. In some
few instances this seems to have been part
ly done and with, the happiest results. The
freemen, whenever be has been offered a
/ faiS chance, has manifestedia dispositioprto
work, and indeed, has met the, demands of
his situation much better thahfhis master.
The meagre accounts2we have from South
ern sources do not afford very satsfacto-
ny amount ofinformation, as they are contra
dictory, and evidently coloIed very much
according the former political ideas of
the writer. 'n0aq 2hi - t4 ~ . :eonh9ilG
In Virginia; we are told that the retGrn-
ed soldiers are going to work with will,
and that there is disposition generally
to makei terms with the freedmen. All
those formerly held as slaves in the region
below tide water have lefttheir homes, and
the entire region is almost deserted. Above
that line, although the negroes are unset
tied in theirInovel condition, they are yet
disposed to work. In Roanoke and Am
herst Counties, the farmers have passed
resolutions denopncing any: .onegwho shall
sell land to a Black man, or who Shall give
him employment without the consent Of his
former owner. Many such hard-headed,
iupracticable men, "whO never forget, and
whS never learn any thing" are crawling
back to their desolated homesteads, broken
in spirit soufed inftemper, but slow to be
wise. III SpEiiiia y
In the city of Richmond, little or moth
| ing has been done toward rebuilding the
burnt district, and very few laborers are
furnished with employment 4 A mistaken
idea as itothe value of real estate has also
forbidden Northern men to invest there. 4
Inthe Shenandoah Valley destitutioii pre-
Wills, Iut dDIS-UOulCu ut6 HOSIIy
gone, and the farmers not only complain of
their ruined possessions, but feel the sup
port of the aged and infrm dependents,
who were left, to be a grevious burden.
Near Charleston apprehension is express
ed lest the presence of black soldiers in
the interior should entice away the labor
ers. The planters desire to have the negro
compelled to keep his engagement for a
year, as they say the crops require contin-
uous labor On the other. hand, we are
told that forty thousand black people are
contentedly at-work for wages in the De-
partment of tha4South, and that nine thou.
| sand children are at school@in South Caro-
lima. The evident reluctance of the plan.
ter to enter into any, contract with the
freedman shows the difficulty with which be
adopts the theory that there are better in.
ducements to, industry than fear. Affairs
! in Georgia as may be seen by the views Of
the Macon Telegraph and Atlanta 1ntelli.
gencer, were not, at late dates satisfactory
to the conductors Of those papers. Desti-
tuition and want, fear Of what the enfran-
chised slave might do, or might not do, is
the burden of their story. 1t is said that
the commanding General Wilson, has 'ro-
dered all negroes without employment to
leave Macon The hand of provisional
governor is probably ueededto.bripgorde
out of chaos. r,i.f. 70 a,era.;t2
The Louisiana planters have been bafi1ed
in their attemps to raiseFa crop, as they
complain, by the movements Of the govern.
ment, but seem to manifest q good DISPOSE
tion to make the best of the new order oil
things, and the New Orleans Times says
that peace has brought" indications Of
happy activity" and is restoring plenty to
many poverty stricken homes, From the
State Of Mississippi, in many localities, both
classes of inhabitants have been long gone.
Lumber mills are destroyed, wharyes ruin.
ed, and utter agnationprevails. Through
out the South the' crops chiefly. planted
consists of corn, and that is said to show a
great want ofgepltiivatien sgsosgo
1t is worthy of notice that the cases Of
alleged misconduct among the freedmen
are very few. The general good behavior
Of the black people is worthy of all praise
and if the white Southern citizen is hal
as loyal, or half as DESTROYS to settle the
question on a just basis, the formidable diff
| fculties of the, Situation WILSON vanish.
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