Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-04-05
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only means of attaining truth. 1t will
do US no harm to read what thoughtful
men think, no matter where they live,
0 or how little we may agree with them
; WATERLoo, March l6, 1867.
q Dear NJ: The APPEAL is much the
5 best paper i have yet seen from Mem
phis. The man who writes on the labor
question is for leveling the negro down
instead of encouraging him to rise, but
B he has authority for IL in the doings OF
Q your Presbyterian council which has
! refused the priests Office TO the educated
] christian negro. l have the Southern
Citltir0tOr sent me from Athens. Some
OF its plsnteF correspondents boast of
! training their own hands to labor, and
bringing up their sons to recognize the
dignity of labor they say that by
! working with their hired negroes,
they get twice the work done
they did formerly. But they pay
good wages to encourage them, and they
begin already to see through the transit
tion state. The south must now begin
to eivilize and encourage the negroes so
as to control their votes when the fran
chise reaches them, as 1t must then by
good management the south will have a
political strength and influence in con-
gress that it never had before. But agri-
culture, industry and cotton growing
will do more to lift up the south TO a
commanding position than any political
management; let every planter put his
own shoulder 70 the plOw, and train his
boys to the same, and be will grow more
cotton with oue-fOurth the hands than
he did formerly. / see by your APPEAL
that one planter paid out $500 a week to
hired freedmen who paid out the same
to his store for provisions, clothing, etc.
A farmer in Wisconsin put in go acres
Of wheat this fall with only the
help Of his two sons but he
had gang-plow, two east-steel
plOws to one frame, drawn by four
horses. The south must also make
improved machinery and save super
numerary help. Cotton will not
exhaust the land if the seed and
stems are plowed in, as the cotton wood
is nearly all carbon, which the carbonic
acid of the air supplies. The cake, after
the oil is pressed out, if fed to animals
makes as rioh manure as guano the oil
is only carbon, and of no manural ben
eft. Your political papers are wrong in
I diseouraging cotton growing. 1t Is the
only paying crop. Without il the south
would only become like old Virginia, a
/ bog -and-hOminy eating people, OF no
more account than Jamaica and san
/ Domingo. The more sugar and Gotten
/ you sell the richer you grow, and the
more practical power aud consequence /
YOU will have at Washington. Hake the
most YOU can of the negro, and his
instincts viii teach him TO vote for his
practical friends, and the radicals viii be
( distanced.
Blessed will be the planter who makes
himself master Of the situation end be-
comes his own Overseer, stimulating his
own sons and the few freedmen he hires
by the power OF his own example. he /
will come out of the transition state
richer in prospective real wealth than he |
went in, glorying in his own efficiency
and consequent regpectabiilty. Instead /
Of grumbiing aud beWalling his present /
trials, which are, il rightly improved, to |
make 2 man Of him, he ought 20 thank 1
God that he is not s northern radical, |
spoiled by worldly success and political 1
party corruptI0ns. It does me good to /
read the correspondence Of so many /
planters who now contend for the /
dfgnff9j of tabor, and boast how /
much they de with their own 4
hands. The planters wife also boasts 4
Of her prowess in the kitchen, where she /
once had halg q dozen -time-serving |
wenches, she now gets slong better with
old aunty alone, and saves 2 heap OF
groceries in the bargain. Ii negro
steals, it is better to feed him and SET
him to work under yOufJ)wn direction
than to shoot him the Experiment. has
been tried by our farmers here on the
Virginia negro with great success.
Slavery Is responsible for his propensity
to steal good usage aud christian ad-
vice made an honest man Of him. Our
farmers think negr5 labor is more relis-
ble than Irish, Il they are not deprived
of wenches, as the lack Of Gill makes
black Jack lonesome and uneasy.
The Augusta C5rOHicle says wisely,
80 If we are wise and remain united, the
black element ia our midst will be as
CLAW in the hands of the potter, snd the
radical eaissaries aided by our OWL mean
whites will be pOwesless."
The Charlottesville C5r0Hicl5 says there
is a silver lining to the darkest cloud If
we will but improve it; it is no longer
useless, blt il will enlighten and direct
US how 10 overcome the ills that sur
round Us.
Il seems to be the general opinion
among the knowing ones, that while the
south is, by virtue of long suffering, I'M
proving in industry and economy, to the
benefit Of the health Of bOtE sopl and
body. the north and great west is demOr- /
allied by financial and commercial sue
cess that q great monetary revolution IS
al hand. Great failures among eastern
and banks, and tBe col
lapse Of trade at the west are but pre-
rursers Of the evil to come. The great ,
far west is doing all it can to keep up
the bubuie, end to prevent any approXl- |
nation 20 the return Of Q sound currency !
but the further the evil day Ia put ott the !
greater will be the revolution. Before ,
We can return 70 specie payment grand
crash to lower the prices OF commodities
rents, etc, must take place, 1
and thousands Of people Who are now
living by their wits must 90 TO work and
plant corn and cotton. During the war cur
lealers made profit on the continued /
rise in the price of goods, then the enor- '
nous bOunties paid for soldiers made ]
money plenty as chips aud set every beg
gar on horseback; but that Is all over |
now; and one Of our largest and most
.uccessful dealers in groceries and pro- 8
visions said to me to-day that he had 20 I
i've not on his profits, but on the Interest
IF his capital; and he feared that the
'Omiug deterioration in the value Of his
arge stock Of goods on hand would eat G
Ip the profits. In the young western 5
tates there is great complaint OF the de-
line IN trade many ueaitfs are hc0 q,
loing enough 20 pay their enormous |
ents. But the young live on hope and
hey all think that the opening Of navi-
ration is 10 revive trade, and the coming
wheat croOp viii enrich them all.
The Milwaukee fund raised in Wiscon- .
in, for the soldiers home at Milwaukee, L
3 nearly 500 600. which goes to erect
he building in that vicinity. Last year J.
he women hired the building in the
,ity-a very improper place, as soldiers, 9
wen when crippled, like to run wild and i
get drunk to the scandal Of good society.
some have lost both arms, some both I
egs, and many have the seal of death
lpOn them. But none Of them slander {
he poor south. They admit that no /
jeOple under the sun ever fought so q
lard, or shed blood ard treasure so freely
or liberty, as the south did for slavery,
md now they should have all our en- {
,ouragement and support to aid them TO i
)sss through the transition state from '
.lavery and the opposition 20 the glori- ,
lus use Of their own hands and to the
ealization of the respecta5ility Of effi-
.ieRt all producing white labor.