Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-06-11
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Esw OslxANs. June ], 1857.
huron rAyr~ronr 0ExeGnAr
Travel II AS present day 10 20 rapid that
re often compute distance By hours instead
4 miles but one il tossed 10 quickly from
ows TO Louisiana. from chilling spring to
uxuriaat summer, that might say thai
be time from oysters TO strawberries was
went flour hcu-- for week ago could |
,ct wsrm in no oihss way than ~ taking |
stew" AZ Mrs Atkins, while Two DAYS \
lfter cooled n with the Aforesaid delcc,> |
Ible edible roses and iced cream.
In vain this year hare We in Davenport
'ung Come, gentle spsinr. -ethsrisl mild
hess, cvms ;"-spsirg didn .ons sgcntiy,"i
md " sthsrial mildness" Vas joke, and we
= didn't Gee g." Surely The "sweet new |
pear. delaying long," delayed 80 lopg that
" could belisve. viii Paddy. 0ts "this |
rear nsg ueu)dn'b eoos tin Joas."
Bus shseeh In eur Northern homs winter
IL lsng stosy, and " breathe coal smoke,
Wheo here svssg bresss walts swsst PER-
fame, ws enjoy h'sseiaGe den,ed oas ssasts
en- hsslhsen, fos vhils time aad change and
decay wsias - lines uSsa - shsssts Aud
lives Of ~, yet almost nothing ID known u
The north Of the foslosn ind hcpsssss copdi-
ton Of shis portion q ~ .5sush.
6sastAiss ysu know u the ssvsess Of
war, and much you can Imagine Of the i'm
poverjshed condition 81 this people. their
fortunes waaasd, their lands and hoses des>
poiled, their satiss power - agricuitusssss
annihilatsd BY tn emancipation act.
From the pstriavchal condition, when
each master waa onarch of his realm, when
one head governed. planned, protected.
msde and executed laws for all the jewellers
upon his plantation, to the present state
when each man is king TO govern himself.
aud MT tho same time Is only an individual
member Of society, the change is stsr,lingy
great. Each plantation WAS little woTid
by itself, and the people lived not IN towns
and neighborhoods tending to mutual sup
port and growth by . mutual aepedoencs
spon each ether, but every proprietor WAS
independent and isolated. you came into
his house IL was ~ . guest and not - >
mel & hbor.or brother. The hospitality Of
which the South was - lavish and - proud
was the hospitality Of prince. Far be 1t
for one Who hss enjoyed IL 90 largely 70
depreciate 10. but We should look truthfaily
and iuteliigently at things that No may
rightly Judge them. IL Vas . god>send 10
Q Southern planter TO have visitors for much
Of the enjoyment Of large posssssions. A
noble mansion, great retinus Of servants,
bountiful stable, costly plate and brilliant
equippags depends upon some one being
thsrs 70 80 Il. George Frsncss Train .encs
remarked 70 me /" wheh went to the Duke
Of Devsnshise's, his losdship should have
thanked me for coming. ios how greatly
would the value Of HE 0egnineent estate b.
Diminished IL the lsoeor people. who make
up the world, had not been permitted u see
and to enjoy and envy
snd ninety.nioe out Of every hundrsd ass
bankrupt
War, famine and p sstilsncs, hivs swept
over him. Accustomed 10 the system Of
compulsory labor he 10 . movies 70 central
remunsratsd labor. and even II no under.
stood Il, the material 10 lacking or many
planters who have honestly paid, housed
and fed their men, know Of no one who
has obtained from them much nors than.
half the amount Of labor they formerly
psrforraed. Az slaves they were rarely
oves worked fer u ~ = bod policy for
planter 10 ovsstask hiA dawes a his hssssa.
The negro 10 naturally lazy, and 30 Is
every other man. The more common sense
we have the more readily we admit the ne>
csssity Of our ewn individual exsrtion. =
But he who Was little while ago slave Ia
child In these things, and like child he
begins work eagerly, and whsn fatigue
comes. abandons il. Al the North il an
employer discharges or LOSES a laboler, he
can at once make his place coed. Not so
here the cotton and sugar crop is the bus
iness Of the entire year, ard once begun,
must be maintained by the same number OF
hands. II sickness, or death or any other
cause dinnishcs that number, like por.
pov.icn Of tic tho work begun must be
abandoned. and this may explain TO same
why the South means that her system Of
laoor is disorganixed. Those Who imagine
that this people are ali wrong, that they hate
the negro and refuse to give him fair trial
are altogether mistaken. Carlyle says that
one crop usvss fails. and that is the crop Of
fools. Fools are plenty here 90 every where,
but oil ere ass fools. Some men here arr
just and noble.-just to the negro and to
themselves. A stern necessity hes made
some "a, and have wondered q and ada
'nissd the energy aad tatienee u the plant
erseof Louisiana, who. last year, hoping
almost against hope, valianty co,ieav osed
TO work out this problem Of labor, excepting
the new conditions forced upon them By their
own wrong doinge
The year 1866 IL witness 10 . heroic
struggle against tremendous obstacies.--
The ievees, formerly continuing the river to
its course and saying To the mighty course.
thus far shalt thou go aud no far her," had
through the war, been neglected. Nature
and man had destroyed some. Without
money, without credit, Louisiana raised two
millions Of dollars and expended this sum
in repairing the vast damages. but this
vas alter the tremendous floods, which, a
year ago. broke through the levees and laid
hundreds OF thousands Of acres under a
waste OF waters After this almost paralyz-
ing calamity, the great tracts were replan,>
ed. wet and unpropiious season follow
ed, yet on the first Of September, the crops
promised well. Ten dsys after, the army
worm,-t scourge Of the South, -destroy.
I'd ninsteen>twentIsths Of the crop, and last
years planting was total failure.
This year, with an undsunted energy. the
lands were plowed aud planted, January.
February aud March icing most favorable
in weather and absence Of FROST !
Az carly ss March 18th, the planting Of
cotton commenced, but on the 2Sth the
levees gave way before she unprecedented
rise Of the Mississippi.
Great SHOWS, sudden melting and costin,
ued heavy seina, bed accumulated fearful
voleme q waters, causing sixty feet ria in
Oaise Ind the1vast destrucsipe southsof That
Petnl The high water marks Of 1888 aud
1852 were covered. This terrible torrent
rolled on for thousand miles, accommodating
force and volume from the swollen riyers
That empty into the lower Mississippi. = |
Millions Of acfes vses evsSfloasd. The dig
tress. the lose 1t ssosk, che lsss Of huuSsu |
life 10 insalculsbls. Tees Of Thousands have |
lest evesythinRs IL enc Of tAres plaatations |
in which yeuf e6srespoudsns had naas ina |
vesemsnts. which will doubtless prove paiu. |
fully ''pssmaosnt," Of eight lheusand eerse. |
not o0e w. vleibts. OH mules wese tskec
uight miIss Ne plAs6 u u01ea Aafkssne |
being covered how, could No ask our cows
10 give milt when " ia thsdf % water
The depth u Ne Hcol o. tAis plsntatiea
varied from four 70 ten feet. In two months
the abatement 10 emily about two feet
Ceaselseely pDDs the torrent through Ar
whicA is over mile in extsna-
All prospect fct any further work On th;s
place this year is abandoned, So suddenlv
did tha uatov v.ssa TIA \