New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1866-01-23
sOUTHERN VIEWS.
A Georgia Southron, partially reconstructed
writes from Milledgeville on the 9th inst. to tn
N. Y Times rs follows:

A Georgia Southron, partially reconstructed,
writes from Miledgeville on the 9th inst. to Thu
N. Y. Times as follows:
1.-THE negroes about this city expected to get o por
ton Of their old masters lands Disappointed in this
expectation. they now say they will be allowed to cote
Voting with them 10 synonymous with freedom IL we
Of the South be left alone to work out this problem
Of emancipation win do It, and the whole country
III be the gamer II the politicians North have II
heir way cotton sugar and rice will be in the market
one year from oday hundred per cent higher than at
present We know the negro character; and we can use
this knowledge for the benefit Of the whole country.
God grant we may be permitted to work out this prob
lem In our own way-at least, for one year."
Its unfortunate that those who so thoroughly
understand the negro character could not have
reSized, years ago, the inestimable truth that
the best and cheapest way to obtain Labor,
White or Black, is to hire it in the open market
and pay the market price for it. That simple
but precious truth, comprehended and taken to
heart, would have saved US billions worth Of
property and rivers of priceless blood.
This Southron further says:
1--WE MISUNDERSTANDING the assertions Of the
Radicals to the CONTEMPLATING to give the negroes
patent reason that hare other labor hand, and
there viii never be such another opportunity as we
have to make that or any other kind Of labor lucra
tive"
We concur in most Of the above, but think
il little too hard on the Southern Whites.
According to the census Of 1860, Georgia had a
total population Of 1,O57 1929, whereof but 462,.
232 were slaves. Making liberal allowance for
the then Free Blacks and the subsequent losses
by war, there must be at least Half Million
Whites in Georgia to-day; not 1O0, 900 of whom
are able to live honestly on their capital. If,
then, this ex.slaveholder means to insinuate
that all the 400, 900 Poor Whites in Georgia are
too proud and lazy to work for living, we beg
leave to dissent. We know that far too MANY
of them seem incurably indolent and vicious;
that they delight in hanging around groggeries
though their families lack bread, and cursing
the niggers" as idle, when those alone are at
work: but We are quite sure that all the Poor
Whites are not Of this bad school; and We ask
the planters to give them chance to prove It.
Let those extensive landholders for whom ne.
groes utterly refuse to work-and We know that
there are such-sdvertise for White cotton
hands, offering good wages and good treatment,
and giving preference to natives or long. time
residents of their own State, and they viii be
surprised BY the number ready and willing TO
take hold. This sending to Ireland or Germany
yea, even to New.York or Cincinnati
laborers is bosh-there is no need of Il. Offer
the Poor Whites chance to work on plants-
tons where no Blacks are employed as field.
hands. with all Iioper inducements, and we be.
lieve cotton canSe made as cheaply by their
labor as by Black, whether slave or free. Do
let us hear that somebody is proffering the Poor
Whites chance to better their condition.