Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-07-12

Correspondence Of the Union and AmeTican.I
GREEN HUI, Tenn, July II, 1866
Since the prosperity Of the State is 50 great
ly dependent on the growing crop, ] shall
first speak of that. Hitherto, perhaps, half
the labor on our farms was performed by
shares; but freedom, always associated in
the negros mind with the idea of exemp-
ton from labor, together with the expecta-
ton ofreceiving in town I" Two dollars day
and roast beef" to say nothing Of whisky
and tobacco ad E5itun, proved too strong for
the indolent disposition and barbaric tastes
Of the simple children Of HAM. An hegira
20 the African Mecca, Nashville, occur
red. which soon carried off three-fourths of
our blacks and we have now among us not
more than one-fourth of our negroes. Of
those who have remained, perhaps one-third
are permanently and proftably engaged
the remainder are lettering about and work
ing at occasional jobs, or capriciously
changing one employer for another.
So very uncertain is negro free-labor, that
our farmers are dispensing with it as rapidly
as they can, and another year, a still small
er number will be found in our fields. 1t
was generally supposed that the withdrawal
and decentralization of this large body of la
borers would very seriously injure our agri-'
cultural interests, but experience proves the
reverse. No longer relying on slave labor,
and fllly impressed with the necessity of in
dividual exertion, the whites have gone to
work en- uaasSe, and the consequence Is, we
have, this year, larger area in cultivation
than ever known, and our work is executed
in a more prompt, efficient and intelligent
manner These circumstances have further
developed and demonstrated the fact, that
our own white population is amply able to
cultivate our lands without the help of Sam
DO or the importations of emigrant societies.
Our interests direct that we continue to be,
as we have been, stock-ra;sing, provision
producing people. Directing our agricultu-
raj industry in this, its legitimate channel,
and we have, in this locality, labor enough
for our lands.
But apropOs, of the crop itself. Our wheat,
now being threshed, gives only half yield,
yet owing to the greater breadth sown, the
amount will be largely in excess of last
year. Oats now being harvested, are fair.
Cotton, planted with us more extensively
than before, is small and rather late, but the
fields are in fine condition and the plant
looks thrifty and luxurient. Our corn crop
is promising-it has been well cultivated,
is now "silking and tasseling," and the late
genial showers have imparteda richer green
and more thrifty appearance continue
ton of refreshing showers this month will
insure an abundant crop Of this most i'm
portant cereal.
had intended to notice our educational
progress, political feelings, our status in ref
erence to the proposed railroad through orr
country, &C., but know something of the
feelings with which editors regard long
winded, prosy correspondents therefore, I
forego the inhiction, this being sufficient to
meet the devils insatiate demand for
"more copy,"-or to light your pipe, while
you amuse yourself with the ass-tute lucu-
brations of 90 NJ" In behalf of a denizen
of the swamp, would ask if it is fact
that in a case of chill and fever an extract
from the ':P. and T." is equal to the Ex-
tract OF Cinchona Adieu,
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