The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1867-05-15
VOL. 2.

postpone the day of calm settling down.
It is impossible to regard the speech
making missions of Northern politicians
to the Southern negroes as anything but
injurious to them. 1t is, In fact, adding
the final blow to their ruin as people;
Unless they settle down to work. ana
take the position of laborers whose labor
is necessary, and must be cherished and
cared for, they will rapidly perish. The
suffrage is in danger of proving the de-
struction of the race. It would ordinarl-
ly take generation to learn the require.
ments of the new order of fittings. Where
the interests of employers are SO deeply in.
volved in the education of the employed,
the process or accommodation to the new
system might be much more rapid. But
the temptations to idlencss which political
speakers are offering them, are too strong
to be resisted by their feeble intellects,
and they are. easily led to ruin. They
would 90 much faster if the promises
were fulfilled. IF the lands were divided
among them, and they made to depend on
their own labor for the product of their
own farms, the race would melt away in
two or three generations.
The Southern negro is very much like
hot-house plant. He needs constant
care and advice. Exposure is dangerous
It. is astonishing to observe how many OF
them seem to be i'll, how few are free from
coughs and indications of disease. They
know nothing about taking care of them
selves They require advice, watching
and constant help. These are the gene
raj truths, while the exceptions serve by
contrast to make the common rule more
visible.
The future, therefore, looks doubtful to
the Southern people. There is reason to
fear that the negro race will disappear.
Already it is plain that it will not be able
to supply the demand for labor which is
sure to be made within few years. The
indications are that they will diminish
from year to year, while the demand will
increase in. more rapid ratio. Ii these
questions were left to the management Of
Southern men, they would be considered
with great care, and the utmost attention
would be paid to the comfort and we'll
being. of the freedmen. The best friends
they have in the world are Southern en-
ployers, and their worst enemies are those
who, however honestly, are seeking to di-
vert their attention from the primary
question of bread, and clothing, and shell
ter. to the work of governing great
nation. Unfit at present to govern them
selves, they. ought to be spared the mise
rable delusion of thinking they are fit to
make laws for the world or the greatest
nation in it. Tho direction of their minds
towards such subjects results in their
absolute destruction, physical as we'll as
moral.
There are many reasons for believing
that the tendency OF things in the South
is toward the breaking up OF the old sys-
tern oflarge plantations employing many
Lands. These will continue in some Sec
tions, because no other system can be
made to work successfully. But it will
not be strange if the general rule shall.
hereafter be more like that at Che North,
where the farmer cultivates small farm,
requiring but few hands Here comes in,
however, the question of emigration
whether it can be turned to the South,
and how. The worlds history has shown
that emigration does not tend to warm
climates. But here are inducements such
as were never before offered. A lard
onco teeming with abundance, rich
soil which rewards labor ten-fold, the
prospect of crops which are more valuable
than. mines of gold, the certainty that the
soil will yield support to, the laborer and
his family from the time that the seed
grows-these and other reasons may
tempt the emigrant.
But the people of the South must do
something to induce immigration, and one
of the finest things necessary is to per-
suade their railway companies to estab-
lsh second-clas through rates of fare at a
low tariff. The present rates are only
local, and very high. When we compare
the cost of going from New York to St.
Louis or Chicago with the cost Of going
as far Southwark, we see reasons why
the emigrant cannot now be induced to
try the latter.
There are fine openings for the organi-
zation OF emigrantcompanies in The South.
Large tracts of improved land can be
bought at low figure, and these lands
sold to emigrants in alternate sections
would at once become more valuable than
in The most prosperous days Of old.
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