The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-01-21

failure to substantiate their vile ISLANDERS
| is terrible rcbuke to the insolence of the
honest among them. Nothing under Hea-
ven can convince the certain few, who
were most prominent in accusing us of
cruelty IN trading in human beings for the
benefit of their labor. These are the iden-
tlcal men who hired three hundred thou
sand able-bodied negro men, at eleven
dollars per month, and 4 promise of some
amount in the shape Of bounty, as their
substitutes in the desperate charges upon
our works during the war.
L again insist that we can rely upon the
kind feelings of our servants. We have
had too much experience of this to doubt
it. We must belive it, and act up to that
belief. Seek their confidence, and show
them III every way that we have their real
interests at heart. We have the opportu-
nifty such as no strangers can ever enjoy
OF influencing them, and l know you will
continue to exert it for their benefit. Re
member, the more you elevate these peo-
pie, the better for both parties. just as
you progress, so they will be found follow
ing you. 1 again repeat, that they are
more improved than any other class OF
held-laborcrs i'll the world. Don't indulge
the mistaken notion of exchanging for
white labor. In the first place, as Il rene
dy to meet our immediate wants, the plan
Is lmpracticable; and if this was not the
case, in my opinion, it would be at any
tlmc very much to our disadvantage. On
this subject, | would wish t. " L word or
two. The want in our sLrply Of black
labor tor our fields, may some day make
TINS chanSe necessary; but the vacancy
must be the result of natural causes. We
should be careful not to force it. In fact,
we ought to do all in orr power 20 prevent
1T. The labor which would be furnished
us would be found totally dlstastefui to
US. They would be merely the scum of
Europe, thrown off by the process Of puri-
tication, which seems never to cease over
there. We would simply be filling the
country with ignorant, 1awless, infidel
scamps, who would turn everything up side
down, and who, after few months resi-
dence, would join the radical party, vote
for all their abomnable measures, and
make the place too hot to hold us both.
L have seen enough of this class tramping
over our fair fields at the South, and
would rather not meet them there again,
II even armed with nothing more formitla-
bic than hoe. In the large cities, they
Will, OF course, find place and an occupa-
ton, and will gradually eXpel the blacks.
before the War. For myself, l never wish
to see them taking the places of my SER
, wants, and 1t would take L good deal to
convince me that, for our purpose as labor
crs Ill tfc fields, any Europeans are su oe-
rior. And this would always be the case,
devised which would include that degree
OF protection for them which formed so
prominent feature in our former institu-
ton, and which, hope, will still be found
practicable i'll our changed relations with
the blacks. better class of whites is also
spoken or. These you cannot afford to
hire. They are clever, honest and indus
trlous; but they have expensive ideas, and
will only come when they can hire farms
The land about us here will require too
much outlay to make short leases profit
able, and we will be obliged to be satisfied
with long leases, which, though in England
are understood and can be relied upon, yet
IN this Democratic country, would cause
| difficulties i'll collecting rents, and we
would have endless trouble and perhaps
| loss.
Some advocate cutting up our lands and
selling them, but, In my opinion, we would
! profit less by this than we expect. But
worse than all, it would introduce among
us those busy-boGy and wonderfully phi
lanthropic Scotch and English farmers,
who would consider it their mission to be
our teachers In agriculture, vel! as in
everything else, and who expect to displace
and push aside the small farmers Of the
South, who are nati-c to the soil, and at
whom they have always been Snecring.
| IheSe-knOwn abroad as "the poor white
men of the South'-are by us regconized
as the class who in the war pursued pa
tTlotlc course, so unexpected to our enc
mics, and which, so long as their distin-
| Sulshed services are remembered, must
make us keenly alive to their interests IN
the future. ! dout want these people to
be forced to go away from us. They have
been true once, and will be 80 again; they
have, with everything to lose and nothing
to gain, followed lis to the field. | cannot
desert them now, and 1 will labor most
earnestly for their benefit, and hope
they will live and multiply, to furnish for
their country's service another army OF
patriots and heroes. The English have
war, protesting to admire and encourage
! horror at even our acquaintance when I'M
fortunate. 1t is they who, by sharp stroke
of diplomacy, in the shape of thwart OF
their much dreaded recognition, forced
from the late President of the United
States his Emancipation Proclamation the
necessity of which, in his public capacity
he might have seen, but from it's probable
consequences upon our helpless families
during the war, his kind nature must have
shrunk. The English, evidently, have
always confounded the Southern gentleman
with the jamaica planter, and our previous
system of labor with their own in the West
Indies, which was ruinous to both master
and slave. And nothing seems to deligh
them more than their anticipation that the
same results will follow from emancipation
with us as upon their own now unprotitablt
and turbulent island. But tell you gen
tlemen, they are doomed to disappoint
ment. We do not fear such results, ant
we hope for very different reward fol
our treatment of our servants. They will