Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-04-30
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was quite evident TO all thinking men
not blinded by fanaticisna or aiiiicteC
with monomonia, hat the experimen
was a most hazardous and doubtful on
for the welfare OF the emaneipated race
For the most part used only to the man
ual labor of cultivating the soil, utterl.
without education or that information
which in its stead, gathered by expe
renee, fits a man to exercise intelli
gently the rights of a freeman, havinI
for the most part lived remote from
towns, and knowing nothing Of tn
world, utterly u~nacquainted with tn
simplest principles Of government, law
political science, trade, finance or poiitl
cal economy, IS entirely without eyel
the rudiments Of any useful knowleds
as so many children, used all their live
to the despotic control Of a single VIII
and their religion merely a modification
Of pagan approximation, without thu
slightest idea of duties to society and thu
county, and little Of those which mar
riage and psrentage impose upor
the freeman, they were mort
likely to find freedom a eurs'
than e blessing. Like children
| they needed q transition state Of appren.
ticeship or wsrd1hip, TO teach them By
degrees how to use without abusing tbs
freedom to which they were unaeeus.
| toned. and which could not but dazzle
and bewlIder them, as the sunlight daz-
| zles one, blind from his birth, and sud
denly gifted with the q Of sight.
Liberty is a blessing to those only who
are fitted to use it with good sense and
Judgment. To the slaves suddenly set
free in large numbers, it lean license
and release from even sanitary and law
full restraint and control. The sudden
bestowal of fortune beyond his needs
upon a poor and ignorant man, almost
invariably pIurges him into a sea OF
1 folIies, extravagances, dissipation and
vice, 0 ending il his ruin. Power
suddenly conferred on SANCHO PANzA
or SLY the tinker is ludicrously abused.
The slave becomes drunk and insane
with his newly acquired freedom, as the
Neapolitan fisherman, MAsANIELAo,
did with power, his cruslties and freaks
o. folly soon making his death a neees-
sity. What would be the consequence
if all the boys over fifteen years Of age,
in a crest city like New York, were
suddenly emancipated from all parental
control, and flung into the great vortex
Of life to struggle for themselves 1t
would be vice, debauchery, misery and
swift ruin. The negro, emancipated,
needs a contol ike that of the parent or
guardian and this truth the Govern
meut recognized, when, without con
stitutional power to do so, it established
over the freedmen the guardianship,
control and protection Of a Bureau, and
so made them wards OF the Nation. In
fortunately, the mismansgement Of that
Bureau has made it q curse rather than
a blessing, except in limited eXtents Of
country, and these far apart. Its officers
have not understood its mission.
The negro must always he q labourer.
The race, as a whole, has not The capac-
ity or the intellect to be anything more.
Very few Of them can ever become even
skilful artizans. Their true destiny is to
cultivate the soil and 1t is fortunate FOR
themselves that it is 50, for in that alone
they can be useful and independent.
Whether as landowners OF hired labour-
ers, they may, in pursuing this healthful
and benencant occupation, be good citi-
zens, accumulate means, live in comfort
and content, and contribute to the
prosperity Of their States. For it
is in agriculture that States find
their truest and most endur-
ing prosperity, snd Hen find content
and the blessings Of an industrious life
It is the destiny Of the mass Of mankind
to earn their food by the sweat Of their
foreheads, and the lsbour OF their hands
and they are fortunate and blest il they
can find work to do, and fair wages, and
can by constant toll ecure for them
selves and those dependent on them the
ordinary comforts of life.
The negro, in Asng respects q child
and enamored Of his new-found liberty,
naturally wishes to enjoy it. He does
not know that be has only exchanged
one form Of slavery for another, and
that he is not emaneipated from the do
Of necessity, or even from that
Of the will Of bis employer. He does
not feel Lis freedom, if be has TO toll as
he did when . slave AM Is y general
rule be must work harder ana more
steadily, TO live, than he did then. La
oour is always the slave of capital and
is generally rapacious and cruel,
Or at least hesrtless and Indifferent as to
the welfare and comfort Of its hirelings.
1t is not important to the employer, as it
was to the n-aas6sl, that the negro should
recover when sick, or be able TO wofK.7
n one dies, be does not lose his value.
he has only to &fe another. II negro
letSheir children die for want of
'are, it IS 10 !oss 70 him. He hires the
.sbourer, uses him, and pays him and
that his interest in him ends.
To make freedom OF any value to the
the first necessity wa to create
or him the family relations, and the
attractions and magical sympathies OF
Iome, to keep from him all temptations
idleneas and vagabondage, and the
ongings for constant change. For the
is Of q tickle nature, and likes
o change bis employer often, and
as little attachment to places, sud
title care about those things that make
ome attractive. No decisive hopes Of
life without labor should have been
ED out to hin, or Of becoming rich
exertioa. He is not inclined to
-ork steadily, he does not see far enough
to be prudent and thoughtful.
Lis sudden investiture with freedom
and bewildered snd unsettled
inn and the first duty Of his s~elf-con-
guardians was to persuade him
} laoour steadily aud patiently, as the
mployment Of his whole life, and so to
lake himself valuable to capital and the
To DO anything more to IN
title him was not only miserable policy,
ut q great cruelty and wrong. To offer
inn irresistible inducements to quit the
'untry and infest the towns and cities, {
a month here and a month
lere, and to craze his poor added brain
filing it with ideas Of his own import s
ice as the bestower Of place, rank and !
ficers, was, both for its effects on the (
'untry and IN the Ethiopian himself, a
without p~slliation or excuse. I
The sudden emancipation of the slaves !
IS likely TO prove the greatest crime of I
the ages. It was very doubtful :
neither this consequence could be pre-
.nted, by any exercise Of wisdom or
y appliances of legislation possible in
Republic. 1t might have been, by the 4
Enlistment Of an Imperial Govern
ant, like that Of the Car, in which one =
II should secure the freedmen the
hts Of freemen, as these are enjoyed
MoBarchies, and at the same time
0uld repress all tendency to license.