New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-08-31
A PROBLEM.

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! What the New York Tribune calls an ''un.
solved problem, is the question whether tht
white people of the South will work. Thit
problem, in The opinion of the Tribune, sue
ceeds that other, but now solved problem
i evil the blacks work p The latter, the Tri
bune asserts, is no longer debatable. 1T /
answered in the. affirmative. Perhaps SC
But it is not answered in a manner to soly
the real problem which was, not whether c
II not the blacks would work, but whether 9
not they would work in that continuous an
Z ! effective manner which alone could rende
/. their labor of any value. For ourselves "
have never doubted that even this questio
!. would ultimately be decided affrmatiyelR-
only the pernicious influence of radieS not
sells could be nulifed. But one yRhder the
shown Eanything more than sgAiends, evil
inspirations Of bad teacherefs bureau, the
. counselors, and the fp%ay that gives much
: negroes do not laboaacitation Of prosperity.
hope for a speedse about wantonly killing
AS for the ptheir threats for fun, and shoot
them, cps way of diversion, in which the Tri-
ing tldulges, we can simply dismiss itas too
: bsfd for notice. Twice as many negroes have
roean killed in riots at the North as ever were
killed through popular violence at the South
AS to the other problem, suppose we answer
it by asking Mr.. Greeley one or two questions.
That gentleman says:
But I" will the Southern whites work ?. That i
q more difficult problem. As class. work is not
ID their line. They were not trained to II and
they don't like it They believe work a rood
thing for niggers, but bad for whites, especially
N !. the sunny South
3 Now the Southern blacks stand to Southern
society in precisely the relation, as to manual
labor, in which the Northern working people
stand to Northern society. The Southern
whites are to Southern society just what the
merchants, editors, doctors and other profess
sional men, and employers generally. are to
Northern society. Let US Just change the
application of the above sentences quoted
from the Tribune, and let them read thus .
g But will the Northern editors. doctors and
other professional men, and employers gener-
ally, work That is q more difficult question.
As class work is not in their line They
were not trained to it, and they don't like it.
They believe work good thing for draymen,
brick-layers, factory operatives and butcher
boys but bad for merchants, editors, clergy
men, Ct i'd ETC., especially in the frozen
North. 2
Is not this fair statement? Does it
involve any injustice towards the editors, doc
tors, merchants and employers generally of
the North? Suppose that, from some cause
or another, the laboring people of the North
were to quit work or suppose it to be feared
that they would quit work could we relv on
Mr.. Greeley to drive dray down South
street, Or on Mr.. Bryant to stand at the tail of
a plow, Or on Mr.. Stewart to sweep Broadway,
or on Nh. sprague to go out to days work in
d factory? Should we find the ninlble specrl-
lators Of the gold room suddenly converted
into industrious brieklayers or respectable
journeymen carpenters, on the merchants of
Broad street into Woodworking porters and
or the thousands Of exquisite youths
who parade Broadway and the Fifth avenue
into farm laborers? Have they been trained
to it? Do they like it? Would they do it?
But as to the South, we can assure Nh.
Greeley that the white people have, wherever
il is necessary, devoted themselves to work
with an energy and zeal which bid fair to
make up, in some degree, for deficiencies else
where. Throughout the country the planters
may be seen working in the fields, side by side
With the negroes, whilst the women give to |
domestic duties the time which their Northern
listers devote to gossip and hirtations The
mail planters and farmers work now as thew t
lways have worked, and the large planters,
= the alluEial districts perhaps do more actual
annual labor than any otherelass of employ
rs in the country. It is very true that many
Dung men who have been brought up. in the
owns, and educated with view to profess
ional on mercantile life, are out Of employ
tent but would not precisely the same be
rue Of the same class at the North, under
nailaf circumstances? We don't know that
le exquisites Of Broadway and Chestnut :
reefs take kindly to manual labor, and we
I'VE yet to hear that Northern editors, nler-
lantsb and factory owners have a passion for
ying bricks, driving drays, OF hoeing pota- /
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