The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-01-16

But the real reconstruction Is proceeding at
the South-this OF Washington being only the
shadow. From every side we bail evidences OF
a growing accord between the whites and blacks,
based on o CONSTITUENCIES that their interests are
not antagonistic but identical. 1t is morally GER
tain that all the fair TO middling cotton that can
be grown in 1866 pey be sold at 25 to 80 cents
per pound IN gold, which affords net profit of
Is to 20 cents. In other words, the labor of each
able-bodied, experienced field-hand will produce,
on the average, at least $500 worth of cotton;
while the cost of hiring and feeding such field
hand will not average $3.50. Assuming that there
are to-day one million negroes in the South who
can be hired to make cotton tand there are more
than one million, but not all full hands, the profit
on their labor for the current year will be
$3.50, 600. Now there are many penniless ruff
fans and rowdies at the South, but they have not
full sway there; while the more intelligent, re-
putable, property holding class have all deep
stake in the establishment OF mutual confidence
and goodwill between whites and blacks And
this work, with some local Interruptions, is
rapidly proceeding, .,-. ID.
We have received copy of the regulations
framed and adopted by the planters of Monroe
county Alabama, for the government of their
dealings with the freedmen; and they evince
humanity and consideration which were signally
wanting in those framed last spring by the land
holders of several sections of old Virginia. They
might be improved; but considering that their
authors were till lately shareholders, and are
dealing with those who we're then their slaves,
they are even commendable.
The Legislature of Tennessee we are assured,
will review its unwise action of last year and
| accord to the freedmen every civil right-such
as to sue in courts, hold lands, give testimony,
&e., &c. And other Southern Legislatures will
| follow in the footsteps of this one. .r ..Il4
Washington letters state that General Howard
is In the receipt of letters from his subordinates
| in the Freedmens Bureau throughout the South,
| showing an improved state OF feeling between
eX-masters and freedmen, and justlfying san
gune hopes for the future. Hiring is brisk; and
few blacks persist in idleness when offered pay
for work. One of the dispatches says;--
"The Freedmens Bureau is in receipt of a large
number of reports from the South howing that the
negroes are commencing the new year in q satlstac
tory manner General Wayne writes from Alabama
that general improvement continues to be manifest
The demand for labor still exceeds the supply and
freedmen show marked preference for living with
state. those planters who i'll treated the freedmen
last year find 1t almost impossible to labor
during this, and some have been compelled to aban-
con their farms in consequence"
| 1t is this latter class who get up negro insur-
rections on paper, and raise the reports that
negroes will not work. The fact is, they refuse
| TO work for those only whom they know as cruel
and dishonest-and these are, after ALL but a
fraction. We have met scores of eX-slaveholders
OF late, and every one of them had found il easy
to hire all the labor he wanted-generally that
OF his former slaves7at satisfactory prices. And
| every one of them obtained from his freedmen
as much work as he required.
Let the South have time to realize fully that
tlavery is dead beyond the hope OF resurrection,
and she will come out all right. What she
mainly needs are time, patience, and hearty good
will.