New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-10-19
1MMIeRAr1oN vs.. COOLIES.

OF blab clStSS OF laDoreTS hlluM14 do SoV4Ao9' ~
may be urged in opposition to our views that
the system of freed labor which has followed
emancipation has essentially failed, from q
| combination of causes beyond the reach of
any remedies which our people could apply;
| and that it is therefore necessity to look to
some other source of supply for labor as al
means of preventing our country from retro
grading in civilization and prosperity. 1t is
unhappily true that Generalization has be-
come so general amongst the freedmen that
their capacity for good has been very seriously
diminished. They now contribute but
small portion of the wealth which their labor
formerly brought to the country. Under the
vicious system adopted by Congress we ap-
prehend that they will next year contribute
still less. They understand only so much OF
the radical doctrine as to induce them to
believe that liberty means license and that
freedom means exemption from work, Under
a different system we believe that very diff
ferent results might have followed. We think
their freedom might have been secured, and
that they might at the same time have been
made much happier than they now fare, and
have contributed much more to the prosperity
of the country We do not think that they
are either competent to govern the country,
or that they are proper instruments to be used
in holding us in subiection to the will of a
dominant faction. But they have been en-
ployed in the latter capacity, and contron-
ing faction is urging that they shall virtually
control the government of the country.
It becomes us to regard facts as they are ];
and to theorize on the past only in so far as it
may lead us to some practical good in the fu-
ture 1t matters little at present that diff
ferent policy might have resulted in q better
organization of labor. We have to contend
with the existing fact of its disorganization ;
and the problem presented for our solution is
to ameliorate the faulty system as far as it is
in our power to improve it.
The introduction Of fresh subject Of con
tention in the form of cooie labor, will not
solve the problem. If the African be enfran-
chised, the enfranchisement Of the Asiatic
would soon follow, and the mongrel races will
rule in the fair regions Of the South. To in
troduce the Asiatic is to welcome into our
midst another enemy of the white race. 1t is
to bring another Greek horse within the walls
of Troy.
The emancipated African already amongst
us, we cannot control, either for the good of
so ciety at large or for his own benefit. He is
the ward of the general government, the pet
of philanthropy and the subject of the freed
mems bureau We must take him as he has
been fashioned by his new friends, with all his
new pretensions, with his contempt of work
and his aspirations for the ballot He might
be made useful member of society, but his
selfstyled friends aseem bent upon making
him its scourge. Our policy should be SO
shaped as to prevent such misfortune and
we think that the practical solution Of the
problem consists in inviting and in encourage
ing immigration mot the immigration of the
coo1ie, or the African, or the Indian, but the
immigration of white men.
1t is needless to say that the climate is not
adapted to white immigration, for white men,
by millions, already live and prosper in the
South. Let the inducement be sufficient and
multitudes will follow their interests and
identify themselves with the country in which
they find agreeable homes. The sailor, the
merchant, the clerk, the printer, the me-
chanic, the capitalist, who meets demand in
New Orleans for his services or an opportu-
nifty for profitable Investment encounters the
dangers of its climate at the most unwhole-
some seasons. Make it to the interest of the
New Englander to locate on the fertile lands
of the great valley, and he will abandon his
granite hills without regret, and contribute
to the prosperity OF country whose fertile
lands will richly reward his persevering en-
ergy. His heart too will expand beyond the
marrow valleys which were previously the
limit Of his thoughts and when he beholds
our inland sea he will think there are other
rivers than the Mefrimac, and when he looks
upon the fleets which are employed in the
commerce of our States he will believe there
have been other vessels than the Mayfower.
For time the absence of his abundant crop
Of granite boulders for fencing in his fields
may cause him to sigh for the splendors of
Plymouth Rock, but the luxrriant soil which
will yield SO bountiful a return to his labor
will soon cause him to wish that the great
''blarney-stoneH had been blown into the sea.
Let sufficient inducement be offered and i'm
migration will soon cause our land to bloom
in more than its former glory.
We grant that the disturbed political con
dihon Of the country renders it difficult to
overcome the objections which have been
urged BY many who are disposed to make
their homes in the South. A people who en-
joy where they now are the full rights ofrep-
Iresentation, are not eager to cast their for
tunes with people whose voice is not heard
in the public councils. But this difficulty
will disappear in time. Faction may rule for
a day or for a year, but its very violence will
dig the grave in which its remains Will be
buried. In the meantime let us encourage
white immigration in the interests of the
white race.
tits forour large landed proprietors to set
the example The day has past for success
fully cultivating those large plantations which
We're once the boast of the South. The
scarcity, as well as the disorganization of
labor renders the attempt improbable, if not
ruinous. One year of disaster will overwheIm
the large proprietor in irretrieyable ruin.
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