The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1868-01-16
II Poor Negro.

The negro is so ignorant, so far below
The white race in all that constitutes a
capable Of self government!
True, when we reflect upon the AFRO
gance with which he went up to the
and voted to deprive white
men Of liberty-voted in the selfish in
solely Of corrupt dcmagogues
who were struggling for power--yoted
to enslave the very men who made his
slavery instrumental in placing him
above the negro in his native country;
when we reflect upon the willingness
or case with which he became n tool in
the hands of infamous white men, and
joined Loyal Leagues which were in
stituted for purposes more hellish than
ever entered the brains of the French
demagogues, or so-called philanthro-
pists who intigated the st. Domln
90 Massacre. or the brain Of John
Brown of this country, and which
Leagues still threaten to bring about
Domingo crimes in the South; when
such reflection enters our brain it is
human nature for US to say that the ne
gro deserves all that he is suffering or
may have to suffer. Justice would
seem to demand a retaliation upon them.
But pity for their ignorance pleads in
their behalf, in proportion as we must
loathe the base wrethes who haye ma
nipulatcd them into an antagonism to
their former masters from whom they
were taken in q manner not essentially
different from highway robbery,
But, let all this 60. We say-Poor
Negro! There comes Il wall Of dis.
tress from the whole South, telling us
of idle and starving negroes. Freedom
has proved y curse to them. 1t might
not have done 50 had the Jacobins, the
R%obespierres, the James Oges, of the
land allowed the negro to worh instead
of arraying him against his former mas
ter, and taking him out of the corn field
and cotton patch into the field Of poll
tics and constitution making. In per,
feet keeping with the ignorance which
led the enfranchiscd negroes ofSt. Do
mingo, under the infamous phVantAro-
py Of France and England, to murder
all the whites of that most beautiful
country on the globe, and erase it from
the list Of civilized countries, bringing
starvation to themselves and reducing
its immense exports TO nothing, which
under the control of white men mou
ted to millions upon millions every
year; in keeping with such natural bar
barism of those brothers the negro Of
the South to ,day is only removed from
utter degradation and savageism be-
cause he was aslaye to the noblest type
of the human race. And ruin stares
him grimly in the face. In Alabama,
we learn from private sources and from
our exchanges, that hundreds Of plan
tations will be idle this year. Only a
few farmers are preparing to make a
crop. Thousands Of negroes are idle
and can find no work to do. We know
of two or three men-One q resident Of
Winchester-who have returned from
Alabama whittier they went to raise
cotton. They say We are doing we'll
bad of as we are--to what they are do
ing in the cotton States, where the ne
groes are in a majority. Wherever the
white race is in the majority there is
more prosperity. This proves itself
the superiority of the people whom the
Radicals have handed over bound, un
to the negro rule. The Columbus (Ga.)
Enquirer says: "If planters through
out the South are manifesting the same
hardness and indifference about enga-
ging negro laborers for the lnext year
as is displayed by those in this section
(says the Columbus Enquirer, and the
same remarks are applicable to Mont
gomery,) the business may be reported
as exceedingly languid and dull. AT
this time last year, and during the
Christmas week of 1865, q freedman
could not pass through our streets with
out being asked every few yards of his
progress if he "wantcd to hire plan,
tiers or their agents stood at the corn
ers and entered into lively competi-
ton for the service of the freedmen
But now nothing Of this sort is seen.
Negroes DESTROYS of hiring are to be
seen congregated in much smaller III
Der than usual, but planters to engage
them are seldom to be found. We I'M
derstand that the wages contracted for
are not more than half the sums agreed
upon for this year, and that nearly all
the planters are greatly diminishing
their force. Low as are the wages for
which the freedmen can he engaged,
the demand is notnear equal to the sup
ply of labor"
No wonder correspondents ofNorth-
crn newspapers represent the negroes
as in O worse condition than under the
old slave regime. Whoever heard of
an idle or drunken negro, or a starving
one, when they we're slaves. They were
taken care of, and were a source ofim-
-~oo,o royapuo 70 tho pOyarnmnnt tbo