New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-01-08
VOLUME XIV.
Nep Orleans 4ailg Grestert,
MONDAY MORNING, JANUARY 8, 1866.
soUTHEREN NECESSITIES.

SpccCncs; sic wants money HHu lnultS' NlFc Hti
plenty OF money and mules, and she will get along
| very we'll" In one sense, the gentleman was per-
fectly right. lie did not, perhaps mean that the
South needs nothing but money and mules to ena
bic her to reach the summit Of earthly prosperity,
and the acme of human bliss but simply that as
her calamitics are material and physical at least
| those of her caIanitie5 which cutable, so her
needs and herremedes must be material and physi-
caIlikewise Hence "money and mnles'' may be
considered general expression for those things of
which we atthe South are now in want foEt the pur-
pose of reorganizing our industrial System and
regaining our wanted prosperity.
We have already shown that capital TO set tlfe
springs of industry in motion is absolutely. neces
gary. TO be sure we have received a large sum
! in return for the cotton which we had on hand at
the close Of The war; but thatsumF Fas by no means
more than enough to supply our current necesBi-
| ties, and TO pay off portion of our obligations.
! We want good deal more capital to enable us to
begin business again, with fair prospect Of sue
cess. But as the North and, in fact the whole
world, is so vitality interested in obtaining our
great staples, and as agricultural in the South
| promises, iof time to be more profitable than any
| other investment, we presume that there WILL be
no lack of pecuniary facilities. Companies are
already in process of formation, for the purpose Of
working Southern lands under purchase, or lease
or in partnership with the proprietors. The sharp
instinct Of the money owners will soon teach them
that their best prospect of large profit is to he
found in enterprises Of this sort. Consequently
there can be little doubt that the stock of these
agricultural companies will be eagerly taken up in
the Northern cities
But We have one or two other needs which are
pressingly felt throughout the South. One Of
In. IL sTt11 fi.n+ laE- hn
promptly provided for, nothing will remain for us
in the immediate future but disaster and ruin.
Without labor all the wealth of Pactolian streams,
converted into infinite greenbacks, would be pow
erless to wiring from the earth its treasured store
of riches. Beneath the surface Of our lands vast
and untouched mines lie hidden from the day.
We have an immense area of virgin soil yet un-
broken by the plow. The fertile bosom of the
earth needs only the hand of labor to bloom into
all the opnlence of cotton and sugar and tobacco.
But the hand Of labor is withheld The ores must
lie hidden in the mines the Virgin soil must remain
untouched by the plow, the bosom OF the earth
must still fold in its close embrace its potential
cotton and sugar and tobacco, until We find means
to avail ourselves of this tantalzing plethora OF
wealth. What makes the situation all the more
annoying is that we have actually among us the
labor which would suffice for all our purposes. We
have negro population, used to work, constituting
indeed our laboring class, which has in times past,
assisted us in producing those crops which gave to
the South so enviable and conspicuous position
among agricultural communities. The negroes are
still here; but, in spite of all entreaties
in spite of the inducements of high wages
good food and comfortable lodging, and
Sufficient clothing; in spite of the most ample guar
antees of kind treatment and protection, they re-
fuse to make any contracts for the current year
They prefer to live from hand to mouth, taking nc
heed of the future, and Crowding into the cities
and towns, where they live, for the present, in
ideness and where, for the future, they must live
in misery.
+. This sad result would have been avoided had
the minds of those simple and ignorant creatures
not been exalted by false hopes, and misled by
false friends They are still dreaming that some
impossible revolution is in preparation for them by
which they will be relieved forever from the neces
sity of labor and permitted to pass their lives ii
luxury and ease. But sucha state of things canno
last. The people of the South are not prepared tt
be utterly ruined. They have not lost their encrg!
= or their hope. If the negroes who constitute tn
natural working population, will not do the dut,
which is allotted to them-the duty which is don
cheerfully by white people in other communities
quickly too. If the Northern people, therefore
desire to see the industry of the South resusci
tated-if they want to partake of that opulen
banquet which Southern resources offer to til
world, they must not only send us money an
mules" but that labor which alone will max
- money and mules available. At least the
must cease those agitations which drive the NJ
groes to idleness, and assist us in making them Sc
}1,ott only bnnh n eNiStoQGC
or of any existence at all, is in performing thei
part of the work of our socety-thatis to say, til
manual labor.
At the present moment we are suffering even fc
domestic servants. The trials of New Ior
housekeeper are heavenly enjoyments compare
be with what the mistress of a Southern family no
d has to endure. In some cases the old kindly rel;
ls ton between the family and the servants has bee
maintained but, as general thing, it is absoutel
R impossible to procure any sort of trustworth
BOT household assistance. A months service, even
the most irregular kind, is rarely obtained no
be from any negro. Servants seem to think that OF
of the greatest privileges of their new found fre
dom is that of changing places. 1t is not uncon
mon for them to leave family to the pleasures
- an uncooked dinner, or the delights of unwashe
clothes. They regard their services so much
! the light of favor to the employer that they r.
. sent commands, or even suggestions as an insu
~ and an outrage. Never, we imagine, in the hi
~ tory of the civilized world, has o whole peop
been so much annoyed and bedeviled as IL
Southern people by the total deficiency of tn
which is called help at the North. OF cour
there is remedy for this, but it is rather slow
coming The remedy consists in that influx of d
mestcs from other countries which may reaso
ore ably be anticipated as soon as the inordinate
or mands of this country are known. Good servan
-, we sigh for, and so do our wives. Good seryan
we must have or our tempers will so to irretrie
ter, able rack and run and every woman in the Sou
be converted into Mrs. Caudle, which calami
O"0 may Heaven avert
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