The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1867-10-11

poor indeed. They met their difficulties
witna patient courage worthy of the high
est praise. Wathout Bselfp ityings they
bent their shoulders brhyefysto the burden
and .nanfullE tSwork. HnciRf the dam
agssestai4ed by their Iplantai fons was re-
! Reasonably hopeful of resSfs frosh the cnsu-
ing season. Ubhappily Tie second season
did not fully malize their hopes They
had stakedS slff On tfcr-eofton crops, and
neglected to plapt grain enough for the sue
ceeding yAar. I The consequences were
mournful. IN many places the amount of
cotton raised scarcely sufhced to pay the
cost OF labor and the price of implements
employed in cultivation, and, during the
last winter incredible dcstitutioh fell upon
the poor. The crop now coming to matur-
| ity was planted Id the midst of dearth, and
most of it is mortgaged 10 corn spectators
In advance Of its production Still the
prospect of the present cropis fair Before
the war it averaged 4, 000, 900 bales. The
yield this year will not be less, if fan, wea-.
ther continues, than from ?, 250, 600 to D.,
100000 bales. More grain, too, has been
raised than last year; so that, though a
great part of the price of what has been
produced will be Immediately consumed in
paying debts, contracted in producing it,
considerably less outlay will be necessary to
produce the crop of 1865 The country at
tlarge will be immensely uprofted by the
present crop, whichwill throw not much, if
any less than $50, 900 dollars into the
lap Of the nation, although Of the sum a
mere spittance will remain in Southern
hands. Another and another equally good
year must follow before Southern. men be-
gin to keep the wealth which is tie pro-
| duct of their industry. a' sA''.'9 s.'i''
But the financial future Of the South is
| bound up with her politics and the former
has been already sacrificed before the Mo-
lsloch oi political party, the. single object
OF whose being is to keep few, men, as we
lately said, in the enjoyment Of fat saler-
les, with stealings.' The corruptionand
decentralization of the cotton raising negro
population has now passed beyond all pre-
| vious conception, though it bids fair to be-
come so much worse that the culture of the
cotton plant in any systematic way must
speedily become impossible Already we
learn from private sources, in which we
have perfect confidence, that the negroes
everywhere go armed to the teeth; that
their nights are spent in secret political as
semblies, where the yiest of white men
inclte them to the most exaggerated bitter
ness against the planters, and, indeed,
against the whole white population that
they confidently look for speedy confisca-
ton of the landed property, to give to ev-
cry negro forty acres and mule" that
OF the plantation they are insolent and
menacing in their demeanor that the
planters are compelled for their own safety
to overlook and wink at the most fragrant
/ ldleness and dishonesty; that when
they threaten their delinquent labore,s
with election from their cabins or stoppage
OF ratlons, they themselves are threatened
IN reply with arson Or with personal vio-
lence +; and that neither negro or planter
looks upon the present state of affairs as
| one that can be permanent The truth is,
tlt cannot be permanent. No industry in
the world can be permanent under such dis
advantages. While Pennsylvania and New
England require not only stable govern
ment but an enormous bonus from the ma
| ton to enable them to sell their iron their
! manufactures to the people at a vastly
| greater price than we could buy them for
elsewhere, 1T is an outrage on common
sense thus by inhamatory legislation to de-
stroy an industry that brings nothing but
profit to the country, and that needs and
asks Tor no protection other than the same
laws that protect the people Of the
States at large. a continuance Of such
legislative national self destruction as now
prevails. may. not imposaibly result in uni
versal bankruptcy, and the reputation of
our public debt bat, at least, it cannot
fall to cause the total ruin of the acricul-
tural productlveness of the Southern States
1t IS necessary to the existence of industry
that the relations of the laborer to his EN-
ployer should be harmonized. Mr.. Wade s
late somersault shows how we should
shrink from the Inauguration of agrarian-
ism among ourselves. 97t Yet our legislation
IN the Southern States has precisely the
effect as if it had beea Deliberately planned
tor the disosganizng of all reasonable har
mony between the Southern laborer and
his employer; and the ignorant enthusiasm
Of the negroes has been reused by propaga-
ting such wild notions of agrarianism as
neither of the Gracchi ever dreamed of.
Once again, Voc victis Unless some sud-
den Inspiration of wisdom shall unexpected
ly possess the government, the South has
this year seen the best year it can hope for
through long space in the future But
We have said that the financial future Of the
South is bound up with the future OF her
politics. What, then, is the future she
has to look forward to? Let US see.
The plain meaning Of the pseudo recon
struction acts Of Congress, now being push
ed to their most mereiess contamination,
is simply: lst, 10 register the South, the
entire negro population and such whites as
may mite with them in supporting the
Radical party in Congress. %, To prohib-
it the registration of the vast majority of
the whites who have real interest in the
quiet and prosperity of the country. Sd,
10 submit to the voters of the States thus
registered the question whether they will
or will not hold convention for the re-
construction of their States under the Con-
gresslonal plan. Under this mode of
procedure, it may ,be,seen what a hope.
ful future lies before the South and the
whole country. Either the States will vote
for the convention or for mo convention
The white vote will be largely cast against
convention for the present military rule
| with all its disadvantages at least affords
protection, while reconstruction such as
| has been perpetrated Id the State of Ten