Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1866-04-15
PUBLIC LANDS N THE SOUTH.

PUBLIC LANDS IN THE SOUTH
Professor DRAPER, 8 nan Of high repUrs
a. a physioIogist in the North, not long
since put forth q work in which he as
pires 10 construct q " CIVIL Policy for
America, which Of course is racy Of the
soil and saturated with the present gov
erumental ideas Of his section, s. well a.
with tie notions prevalent there Of the
superlative energy and superiority Of the
people Of the Northern States over al
others, especially those whom they, a
wear ago, overcsme in the final
trial Of battle, It is the con-
clus.on Of this eminent physiolo-
glst termed s0eioIogisL that it has be
come the duty Of the Northern section
To govern men and guide the state,
in all matters that affect US Of the South,
IL legislate for Us, to think FOR Us,snd 70
act for Us. moreover, in such wise, a. 20
lift US I'D somewhat near the height Of
their own exalted civilization. One can
scarcely glance over, in these days, any
product Of the Northern mind, without
seeing some o~ut-cropping Of this same
sslf-complacent spirit, which, origina-
ting IN New England, has permeated
the whole region beyond the Susque-
hsnna Just now it appears In
plans for the disposition Of the pub
lie lands in the Southern SJares
the amountof which, Eastern journalists
have been a. the pains 70 ascertain and
publish to their readers, as follows: In
Alabams, 6.7S2,059 acres Louisiana
e.Z28lO2; In Florida, 1882 795 acres IN
Mississippi, Zoo, 756, and in Arkansas
a22s.OI8-ln all, q total Of nearly twenty
nine millions Of acres, opens they
sllege-for settlement and early conver-
sion into cotton fields. Congress is, there
sore, called upon TO pass some bill that
shall facilitate the settlement Of these
lands, BY their early survey and sub-di-
vision into small tracts.
There Is q Hlndoo Proverb to the ef-
feet b a o may steep a dogs tail in oil
and bind It with 3 linths, yet the crook or
curl In it viii remain unchanged. Thus
It certaiuly IL with these people, who by
no process whatsoever, can be brought to
los sight Of the negro IN conneE-
ion with any matter Ia the
Southern States. Hence as was
20 10 expected, the southern negro
d % be provided with h0mesteads q OF
these public lands, which are 70 be held
Nc before his eyes as a bait to seiuce him
from the employment Of bic former mas
Ter, AID 10 induce him to set up as an
i-udependent agriculJUralzt on his own
accouul To encourage the negro to be-
cosne landowners, our Northern breth-
rem fancy to be a wise policy.
Il SQUARES, al least, with their
special z crotchet5. That is all
they heed, aud 90 they ignore the results
Of somewhat similar plans elsewhere, as
In Jamaica where the negroes nearly all,
forsook the sugar Plantations % De-
took themselves %. petty pImento
patches" Doubtless we shall see the
requisite Congressional action. In fact, a
leading radical has come forward with his
bill which in due season, at the behest Of
THADEUs STEvENs-autocrat Of the Jac0-
bips-wil be made a law. For this
Southern planters may as well be pre-
nared as another serious obstacle in their
vysv. Their best plan viii be to counter
oot IT. effects as far as possible by judi
cIous conduct towards the negroes
and such provisions for them upon
the plantation as should make II PLAIN to
the negro's comprehension that be has
nothing to gain by quitting a comfortable
bomeforapreearious venture. Wekno"
now difficult it viii be to make the igno-
- HACK fully understand this but the
go should be madei in slpossible cases
end 10 every possible extent