Abbeville press. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1860-1869, 1866-07-06

they had died eff like sheep with the mur.
rain. But remaining on the plantations,
as heretofore, and employed for wages,
they were docilo and provocative people,
altogether differing from the Indians, and
not likely TO die out like the latter. Their
labor was needed. ard though they could
not multiply SO fast in freedom as under
their wholesome restraints, he saw no good
argument for their dying out.
In ten years, or perhaps less, the South
will have recovered the -pccuniary losses OF
the war. 1t has but littlo capital in manu-
! factories. Its capital was in land and ne
groes. Tho land remains productive as ev.
er. The negro remains, but their labor
has TO be paid for. Before tho war there
had been 1000: O:oooncgroes, average value,
$500 each, or total value, two thousand
millions Of dollars. This was all gone,
and the interest upon it, which had been
the profits OF tho negro's labor in ex-
cess of his cost for food, clothing and med
cines. Still their labor remains; and with
this and such European labor as will be
imported, such Northern labor as must
flow South, the profits Of the Southern
staples will not be long in restoring mate
rial prosperity. =.
In bis freedom, Incapable of being made
to labor at all, The negro will not average
moro than six bales a year; but as the
price of cotton has more than doubled, and
is not likely to recede, even this will yield
an enormous profit. Six bales, Of 400
pounds each, will be worth 5000 at twenty
five cents per pound, while the cost of this
species of labor will be about $3.50 year
per hand found-.a profit Of cetainly not
less than $500 a year on each black labor.
or employed. =.
Tho land will not pass to any grca. e1-
tent from it's former proprietors. They
| will lease it for a few years to men with
capital, and then resume working it them
selves; or sell portions of it with same OBJ.
ject, not materially decreasing their own
possessions. When the country is quiet,
and profits of the crop come 10 be. known,
there will be rush souihward from the
sterile New England regions and from Eu-
rope, only cqualIed by that to California on
the discovery Of gold Men will not stny
IN the MOUNTAINS of Vermont and New
Hampshire cultivating little farms Of FROM
fifty to hundred acres, only yielding thi \
some few hundreds a year profit for, inject
SAINT toll, when the rich lands of the South.
under skies as warm and blue as those Of
Italy, and with an atmosphere as exhilara-
ting as that OF France, are thrown open at
from dollar and half to three dollars
per acre. Tho water power of the South
will be brought into use by this new immi.
grafton and manufactures win spring in all
directions. E - -
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HIS TREATMENT OF PRISONERS. .,
Mr.. Davis remarked that when his tray
Of breakfast had been brought in one
morning he overheard some soldiers, in the.
guard:room outside commenting on the
food given our prisoners during the late
war, TO hold him responsible for this was
worse than absprd-criminally false: For
the last Two years Of. the, war, Lees army.
had never more than half and was oftener:
on quarter rations Of rusty BACON aud:
cern. 1t was yet worse with other sonth-
ern armies when. operating IN a country;
which had been camp aigned over anytime.
.Shsaas4 with a front: Of, thirty OF: forty
tpelless Heaking into a new country; found
30 siodbie in procuring food but had he
baid any where, even for. a single week;
msa atasSsdss Marching every day,
Aeh SSa INV SECTION, and left be-
'asisma sazsips Eldefness. - J
gusess1 Northrop, his ,Commissarys Gem
HHsas A gsp.sea,saa With;
dSGsil af,aafs a
&c s ss!ia 4 9ksss'
EsIssking,at NORTH feaHy Deaf .IS
HSpt Him. Even General :othsr-i,71
aRso moderate and conservative, was id: /
hanjoin this injurious clamor. There.
ip. , tho Copfederacy,. :.But no;
gs collection, the holders hiding
the:e currency lad beeoms depiacaa
il colIeeted, then 'oamss fhs daiiffi
;ia ttansporta ation, . Theihst tffaisdAds,
y ear:saxed, and ,tbe, Iol9ipg :stsek eksseoni
shts They could mot fssa their own