Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-03-22

S0uth had yletdeu, not 10 pefHt1 AZ 70
.,sturn into the Union, not to conciliate
Its leaders, its men of character and in
auence. As only an ~inexcusable stupid
ity could imagine that the Southern
people were base enough to be bought by
a cheap amnesty of the mass, too nu-
merous to be hung OF plundered and by
sacrificing on the unholy affairs Of the
yietor's vengeance, the leaders whom it
loved ~andrevered, or sven OF when it
had complained and with whom been
disconnected ; so only an in~conceivable
poverty Of honorable feeling and manly
sympathy eoSild have offered it such a
bride.
Nor could anything less than faulty
have imagined that the Southern people
would submit with entire resignation
and in entire good humor to the emanei-
patton by force of those slaves that con-
stituted so vast a wealth, and on whose
labour the material prosperity of the
South depended. We do not think that
the Poles love the Russians. We are
sure that the last descendant of the
Carthigenians hated Rome. NAPOLEON
overran and ~subjugated Spain, but 10
sEPH did not die in peaceful possession
of the Spanish throne. To set the
negroes free was like finging millions
upon millions of gold into the voraclous
Atlantic. The negro freedman is worse
than worthless; the negro voter will be
a pest, and make the country a lazsretto.
The annihilation Of slavery will prove as
great an injury to the North as to the
South. for it is the humiliation of an
immense amount of productive labour,
and an immense addition to the common
stock of pauperism and vice.
1t is a great mistake to imagine that
the slave-owners alone were benefited
by the labour of the African, directed
by a superior intelligence. The negro
was intended to toll, and SO to be, as so
only he could be, Of use and profit on
earth. Those who owned nc slaves
never wanted for work, were the slaves
neither of the mine OF the loom, voted
as they saw fit, never wanted for food,
nor saw their wives stitching shirts at a
few coppers each for Jews, and Yankees
worse thar Jews, OIL their daughters
prostituting themselves for bread. They
paid no poor-rates; for there were no
paupers. The master vas compelled by
law to feed and clothe even his infirm
and worthless slaves. There were no
beggars, no alms-houses, 10 asyla for
reforming Magdalens. The houses of
prostitution even in the cities, there
we're none in the towns were peOpled
with girls not born in the South.
The great problem of civilization is,
how to so reconcile labour and capital,
that the work of a man shall always be
worth food, clothing, shelterand warmth,
for himself, and for those who are de-
pendent upon him for support. II is the
question of questions, surprising all
others in interest and Importance that
on which the fate of all Republics and
Monarchies will be found to depend the
question of salvation or damnatiOn Of
nations; whether human labOur shall
be worth life to all human creatures, to
the man and the woman, the strong and
the weak, the well and the sick, the
helpless infant, and the old in the feeble
ness of decrepitude.
Alone, of all countries in the world,
the slsve-holding American States had
solved that problem. 1t is q fearful one,
even where, as in England, the poor and
the rich, the employer and the ~labourer,
are Of one race and colour, and the SYM
pathies that belong to these tend to har-
monize the rich, and to soften the ada
mant of selfishness. 1t is incomparably
more to be dreaded, where the labourers
are of another and inferior race, barba-
rians whose civilization is but skin-deep,
of a different colour, and between whom
and the white race ~fanatieism aud folly
are creating a hostility and a hate that
can only end with the determination of
one rae or the other.
Yet never, until the North invaded
and ravsged the South, and armed the
and every day and on every acre
its armies or robbers marched or
set at defiance all the laws of
humanity and deeency alike, did any
human being in the South want for food,
clothing, shelter and. warmth, except
in its cities, paupers came from
or from the States whose people
deemed it their mission to curse the ne
gro with emancipation.
Even amid the multiplied and long
continued Internal horrors Of the war,
none Of the labourers or Of the infants or
aged Of their race wanted for food. We
we're in the South during the whole war,
and in July, 1866, in the city Of New
York, for the first time after the war be-
gan, we saw a man begging. There
never yet was a time in the South, when
he labour of a negro was not worth &Sl
i9od and clothing. I
Slavery separated less families, also,
than poverty does Is the single city Of
New York it aused infinitely less pros
than the indiscriminate pigging
of white and black in lodging
houses and other kennels and dens of
hat immaculate city, or sp~iritualism,
ree-love, and passional attraction in
loly and virtuous New England. 1t
produced no infanticides and supported
30 sbortionists; it bred up 10 thieves
aad burglars, it maintained no aims
it hired out no white paupers to
he highest bidder.
GURTH was very glad to be made a
reedman, because he still remained one
4 CEDRIc's household. If the freedom
,ffered him had been bat freedom to
tarve, the freedom Of the Irish cotter or
weaver or New York street.
weeper, he would perhapsh have preferred
o retain his collar.
Northern philanthrophy, in violently
free the negroes, and w%reRching
sunder all the ties Of sympathy and
ommon interest and old association that
ound master and slave together, offers
be former n a premium for inhu-
No one ever finds that q hired
.orse drives too free. 1t is hereafter for
be interest of employers to work negroes
p into sugar, cotton and rice. A pre-
mum OF profit and per cent. is offered
selfshness and greed. Thousands of
he DEVILS agents from the Northern
tates, buying coniscated lands, will
be engaged in grinding up freed
len into these cash-producing products (
T agriculture. No longer, in a house, s
old, will four, five, OF six women be
in doing the work Of a single l
-ish or German girl in a New York
otel. Under a Yankee owner, it will
1t be considered sufficient, on a planta-
for three negro men to do the work
one white man each eating, mean L
lille, twice the ratiOns of a soldier.
All that is henceforwsrd at an end. $
be North, intermeddling in that which
no wise concerned il, has relieved the d
,uth Of all the difficulties connected a
it'll the increase Of its slaves, that
waited It in the future. 1t has relieved v
OF all obligation to care for the young {,
ID the aged, the helpless and the sick.
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