The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1868-01-09
Landlcss Freedmen.

8 Landlcss Freedmen.
+. 1T is understood that the planters II
the Southern States are not only orga
nizing to regulate the rates Of wages tc
be paid freedmen the coming year, bu
to prevent them from acquiring land
The members of the organizations ir
the different States pledge themselves
not to sell lands to the blacks, and, II
possible, to prevent such sales by 9th
ers who may decline to join the organ
cations"
The above assertion is taken from
the leading editorial column Of the
Cincinnati Commercial, which journal
accompanies the assertion with jere-
miad over the wrongs and expressions
ofthe poor negro. U. IN such stuff as
this the Radical partyis fed and kept
alive.
The Cincinnati Commercial, one OF
the ablest and best conducted journals
of the whole county, with an exchange
list embracing papers published in cv
cry section of The South, should have
&C mpanled an assertion so graveS
with proof Of some kind to support it.
The general expression, "it is under
stood," does not meet the case. II the
Commercial has been made to under-
stand nat such things have occurred
or are occurring in the South, as are
mentioned in the article which we have
quoted, We can only say upon positive
knowledge that it has been most eyre
giously hoaxcd. 1t is true that there
have been some meetings. Of plan CTS
consult us to the b. Il means ofpro-
curio'; and managing labor. The fail
IRE of cropa, the high wages hereto
fore given, Land the active participation
Of TO laborers in the politics Of the
cor Try have rendered such step up.
on ;eir pa,t absolutely necessary.
But If any effort has been made, any
~ IS given not TO sell lands to ne
- able and willing to purchase
en-, we have failed in daily perusal
o. a'' Of tue leading Southern newspa-
+ rs to find any mention ofthem. The
: l,h is, that lends are plenty and cheap
- all purchasers, who may come with
- 4 or subs initial credit. There is
ot negro from IIarpers Ferry, Vir-
{, "a, u SAN Antonio, Texas, who
)uot find plenty of white men ready
sell him land for money, or ev" ap-
provcu sccuriti'7.
The Commercial may just as we'll IN
derst nd fac rs fanc,es, aud for t.
benefit, we will say that there is not
one negro out Of thousand in the
South who is able to purchase either,
for cash or ona credit, land enough to
bury him in. Though they have recei-
we'd, during the past two years, higher
wages than are given to any unskiled
laborers on the face Of the earth, few
very few Of them, now at the close of
the Christmas holidays, have money
sufficient to buy pair Of shoes, or a
plug of tobacco. A large portion Of
their earnings have been gathered in
and squandered by worthless adventu-
rers from Ohio and elsewhere, who un-
der the guise of disinterested friend
ship, have robbed the negro of his
wages and his vote.
Intoxicated by these thieves aud
they have assumed self. J
Importance entirely foreign to their
and in place of desiring pur. I
,hase land, they now declare their in 9
ention oftaking it by force from those .
. whom it righuully belongs. Those !
Who propose to perform even a small t
Of labor, have placed such a 8
idiculous high estimate upon their
that the planters of the South,
by the idleness aud theiv Il
'g oftheir hired hands, and the bur- +
ensomc taxation of tue Radical Con- b
ress have beccn compelled as a mat 6
'r ofsafely and self-protection to con- l.,
llt together, not about tue disposa! II
flands to negroes, but as to the amour. is
t wages that could be paid to those Al
hO will work, and how to defend
lemselves and their property from the
epredations of the idle, vicious, and "
hose who have imbibed the danger M
us and agrarian sentiments of Beni. ol
Jade, of Ohio. If they had been left d'
themselves and their only friends, pl
le white men of the South, a,-,cr their til
nancipation, the negroes would, after "t
little season of idleness, have become
happy, contcnted and thrifty popula-
on. The best and smartcst of them in
ould soon have become prosperous to
nants or owners Of small farms. But to
@ cmissares aud adventures of that
'rty, endorsed aud suppol I'd by the 49,
have done the business N
+ the negro. Their infamous teach. I(
g, Loyal League bands, elections IN
ID conventions, have rendered the ne.
oes a very foolish, thri lless and dan. wi
rous population. an
Ii the Commercial really thinks buck ia
ygers are roaming about this coun. fr
7, with pockets crammod with cash. 20
eking in vain for some white man to SC
Il them plantations for greenbacks til
d up during two years Of freedom
suggest that it advise the farmers :,
Ohio to put their lands on tho mar. ~ II,
t, and, through the columns of the -, -,
numerical, to invite to Ohio the inn. y;
snse amount Of capital which is kept CI
'm investment in the South by the f. f.
eJudice or i'll will of tho Southern bc
anters against the wealthy and sable III
nj hunters Colam6us Ga.) San. TN
A PREvESTIvE.-A gentleman OF St.
'uis sends the following communica.
IN to one Of the papers there. We au