The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-12-02
Our Want.


disappeared. A changed condition OF labor,
brought about by emancipation, has by
itself effected a complete revolution OF
our entire industrial system. The abo-
lition of slavery has not lost the labor
of the former slave to the State; 1t
has only changed its form and placed 1t on
a different basis. The capital invested in
that class of property is lost to the former
owners; but it will, we believe, in the end,
when the disenthralled race rises to the full
dignity of its new found position, and be-
comes accustomed to the independent labor.
thought and care necessary for success among
men proye an incalculable addition to the
working capital of the State; for q brawny
arm, directed by the independent and ener-
octic will of an intelligent freeman, will ac-'
compIish vastly more than tae same muscle
would under the crack of the drivers whip.
Years may be required to educate the freed
man up to the highest appreciation or his
position. and render him as energetic and
proyident as he might have been had he
never been subject to the control and pro
tected by the caren of a master.
In order to stimulate the energy and quick
en- the ambition and excite the competition
and educate the economy of the laborer, he
needs to see examples of successful industry
illustrated before his eyes. A practical IL
lustration of the go-it-alone spirit needs to be
exhibited for his benefit in every community
of the State. Small farming, or the. celti-
walton of small quantity OF weli-tilied
ground by every man, will undoubtedly tend
more to the general alhappiness and prospect
tv. and result in greater production Of the
fruits of the soil, than any other system. But
this is a new and almost an UnkHown prac-
tiee in those regions of country where
before the war we had no farmers but only
planters. who owned many slaves, worked
large plantations, and made the small farmer
appear almost contemplate and unworthy
of notice. That old system of planting is
almost destroyed by this revolution in the
condition of labor. For the sake of human
.ity. for the sake of the laborr himself, iOr
the sake of the planter even, and also for
the sake of the actual prodactiveness of the
State, we hope nothing akin to it may ever
again flourish upon our soil. .iy..sa sssf
A better system must take its place. But
who will teach US how TO make a fortune from
an acre? Who will show US how farming
can be made most profitable We have few
people who know how to do it. Conse-
quently we must go abroad to find them
The German, coming from the yine-clad
hills of the Rhine and the Elbe, with his
thrifty husbandry, his rigid eceneny. to-
gether with his devotion to Republican lib
ertv. can teach us more how to make our fer
tile fields blossom Ike the rose, than any one
else The hardy Yankee, coming from the
bleak hills of the distant North, where he
often has to carve out the rocks from his ma
tive hills, and export the ice from his frozen
streams, to obtain livelihood, can teach us
much economy and give usian inspiring ex-
ample of industry, enterprise and energy.
Most of these men are educated aborers
themselves and the natural friends and al
lies of the laborer of the South Therefore
every means should be used TO induce them
to come among US as teachers. ,i =, .o-l
The great majority of both these classes
come with capital to invest in hand, houses,
railroads, and in the employment Of men to
assist their enterprises If 100000 of those
people could be induced te come here,
bringing $500 each, whic!, is low estimate,
for many of them would bring vastly more
than that sum, the total amount of live capi-
tai added to the property of the State would
be S50,0eo,0oo. At least half of tasat s5e,-
90o,000 would be paid at once to the pre-
sent land owners for their land and other
property; and this would give the planters,
many of whom are now living upon desolate
ana uncultiyated plantations, tae means of
putting their remaining acres in a better
state OF ofcultivation So that it wonld prove
an inestimable benefit to them, as well as to
the poor laborers, to haze great influx of
immigration and capital to the State. ~
Then let US welcome every industrious i'm
migrant who comes among us, welcome
every German who will teach the poor far