Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-02-21

All t3ldt IL DeluS now eudCttu. w NJuS
crew In power seems unreal. The detsr-
mination of the Jaeobins to Afrieaniza
the South will have It's way for time,
and all that brutality and ignorance can
do TO destroy the country and humiliste
those who are its rightful citizens, will be
done. Every nation has had its periods
Of insanity. But the mania will pass
away, and reason after a time regain
her empire, and the detestation Of the
civilized world will make eternalIy infs.
nous the names of the miscreants who
are foremost in the hideous work. The
South is not irrevoeRbly devoted to bar
barism and fstiehism. Tie New Orleans
Crescent truthfnlly says:
In the struggle in which the white
Population are engaged the victory is to
the hopeful and patient. As surely as the
heaven shall endure, and the earth shall
net fail them, they may 1--we down the
Pernicious effects OF malevolsnee and
misfortune which are now combined
against them. As certainly as nature
mas made them q superior race, their
superiority, intellectual, moral and ply
sieal, VIII tell in the final Issue, and
make these States, which foul and un-
natural conspiracy aims TO convert into
an African base OF 40 Asiatie despotisua,
q white mans country, dedicated to
civilization and progress, and not to re-
Progression and ruin.
aThtse views, the necessary conclusions
from iDdisputsble q priOTi premises. are
confirmed by accommodating facts OF ex-
peFieBee. Among such facts letft suffice
here TO meAtlon q few. The negroes of
the South have manifested, since they
were emSncipated, a rowing disposition
and an lnaptltude for settled life and n
dustry They have, esPeeisliy, shown
no eagerness to become landed proprie-
tors with permanent homes in the rich
agricultural districts Of the South. Their
habits are such as to go against their
natural increase, as well as against their
acquisition and preservation Of wealth.
The Freedmen's Bureau, instead Of
correcting, has tended to confirm
these habit. IL has only de-
bauched aDd pauperized them. II
has transferred the care of them from
private control to Government tutelage,
but not the work which formerly paid
for their subsistence. 1t will pFove ulti-
mately to have been the most destructive
Of al the engines Of the spurious philan-
thr0py to whose deadly nercies the
freedmen are doomed. The lying stats
tics Of reconstruction regis'gies and cleo
ton returns afford, Of course, no indi-
cation Of the decrease or the exodus Of
tue black population. In estimating
either the one or the other, tits Necessary
at present 30 rely upon ocular evidence, |
or upon unofficial testimony, such, for
example, as the subjoined statements OF
a Mississippi paper, the Aberdeen E.c-
dnaiyleT:
t'It is with pleasure that we state that
Mississippi is rapidly losing the negro
majority that ensbied the convention TO
prevail at the late election. Not rain
passes up the Mobile and Odio railroad
but bears many Of them 10 Tennessee
and Alabama, while we learn that they
are leaving the counties on the Missis-
sippi river by every steamer passing up
to Missouri, Illinois and the other States
of the great West. We wish the de-
parting blacks all possible prosperity in
their new homes, and congratulate our
people on their loss. Those who profess
TO know inform US that the decrease in
Monroe since the middle of Novem Der is |
not less than three or four hundred
theu nave as many left as we require"
The Crescent urges the AgTieulturists
of the South to "stick to the country
and cling to their homes, resolved TO
make living there, in spite OF the gangs
ofvagabonds and depredators with which
bureaucratic charity may cause their
to be infested"
Our planters must cease TO expect to
make fortunes by planting, and be con-
tent TO support Themselves and their
families by the cultivation Of so much
land only as they can manage. They
must, as far as possible, dispense with
negro labour. Necessity is compelling
them to sl this for few OF them viii be
able hereafter to do more than work q
limited number Of acres. The cultiva-
ton of cotton viii ruin all who engage
in it, relying on free-negro Iabour. The
Crescent says:
Let the whites determine, by watch
fulness, by pluck, by mutual assistance,
to make idle wards of the Bureau pay
dearly for their stolen meat and bread,
and the latter Will be forced to one OF
these aIteruatives-hOuest work for 6
living, or emigration to where they hope
to find better chances for ps8psrs and
pilfsrers. There is no danger that, under
the policy above advised, Southern agri-
culture viii lose any laborers whose
presence is desirable. On the other hand,
the more the emigration on the part of
the blacks, the gIeater will be the in
ducements to whiJs immigration. Moth
ing could cause so great a-rush OF whites
from the North and from Europe into the
agricultural districts of the South, as the
news that the mass Of the blacks were
leaving these districts, Well, this will
at length prove to be, not mere hypothe-
sis, but history; and the South, having
emerged from the political and social
perils that now beset her, will possess at
once the finest agricultural domain on
the face OF the earth, and landed pre-
prietary unsurpassed for independence
and power anywhere or in any age.