Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-10-12
RI. NOSES TOTHE CSI0RED PEOPLi
OF GEORGIA.

! Under the foregoing heading, we no.
| tice in the Columbus Enquirer Of the 22d
/ instant, an address Of Coz. R . o. Noses %
! the cOlOred people Of this state written
at the solicitation" says .5- writer,
/ /" OF some cOlOTed persons with whom /
! have conversed upon tin duties Of the
/ hour, and how they should ba performed
/ by the cOlOred people - and 'I0m which
/ we make the following extract, COM
meuding it to the attention Of the col
ored people in the vicinity:
/ The negro is suddenly made free-the
! whole rule Of life is reversed with him /;
| his comforts now depend on the labor Of
/ his hands; if be works faithfully, his
comforts will be many; il he works little,
| his comforts will he few. Upon his labor
! depends the care he will have in sick
/ ness-the provision be viii have in age.
| All these fscts and duties sre suddenly
| thrust upon him, and he has to IaeeJ
/ them with the education Of q lifetime
! driving him in exactly the opposite d.
! rection. Is it wonderful thst the negro
should not learn in a day what the white
man has taken a lifetime to acquire Is
| il strange that he should cling to bis
habits Of ease, and not learn in a day to
/ love and seek labor rs a means
| wheTeWith to invest himself with
( the comforts OF life? Is it re-
markable that he shOHld be lazy
under the same circumstances that would
make white man laZy2 I think not.
l think the wonder u that they are
| learning the lesson so soon as they do
that they are 50 rapidly acquiring indus
/ trious habits DESPITE the baleful iutiu-
ences with which radical emisssrIes have
| surrounded them.
! The first social duty Of the negro is to
seek labor, work faithfully, fulfill his
! contracts, and cultivate the good will
and kind feelings of bis former master,
| the laudhOlder of the country, to whom
I he must look for employment, for his
/ people are sn agricultural people, and
| the great majority of them must live by
| agricultural labor.
| He should do this to increase his COM
| forts, educate his children, and provide
| for sickness and old age. he must learn
| To live ia his children, and hope to see
| them derive the benefits to arise from
| his labor and frugsiity. He is rapidly
acquiring knowledge OF these things,
and if not turned aside ty foolish aspira-
tions after political power, or mischiev-
Gus notions Of acquiring by robbery, un-
| der the name Of contiscsuOn, land and
vfoperty which he can never possess ex-
| cept by the labor Of his hands, he will
have an opportunity in a few years Of
| showing that the iCye or ease is not pecu-
| liar to the negro, aud that the love of Ia
| Dor for the increased comforts which
! labor will command is common to both
| races, the great difference in the relative
| industry OF the races being a difference
! Of education, which the black man is
rapidly overcoming, and not, as is gen
/ orally supposed, a difference Of color
only.
| IN concluding this letter, let me advise
| YOU to shun the stranger who has no in
| terest in the land, and is thrusting him
| self between you and your former
master for his own selfish purposes and
not for your good. Cultiyste good feel
ings with those you have known GlEsys,
sBl who must live and die with you in
our southern land.
Remember yuur homes and our homes
are together, the graves Of your children
and our children Eest beneath the same
sod. Our Georgia is your Georgia orr
prosperity l. your prosperity. You are
3 part OF the state, and Georgia cannot
be a rich "a happy state for the white man,
ualess it il also a rich and happy state for
the negroes. Our interest are the same. II
our crops are good your wages are good
II our crops are bad your wages are low.
II corn is low for the white man it is
low for the black. II bread is scarce
and high foe the white man, it is scarce
and high for the black man. If you are
industrious and frHgRl, and 5ue white
man is industrious and Irugll. the state
and ali who live in it will bf prosperous
and happy but if we guSrT9i suOng
ourselves and lay waste, iGseness viii
beget bad passions, bsd passions viii be-
get strife, strife will make as lift our
hsnds against each other, and Georgia
will weep for the madness Of her chill