New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-04-16


hood, dignity, aud power; mysterious
something that enlarges and ennobles, while
| the 0pDnslte cOntri C +, belittles and bemeans
a mys eriOus something that hus converted
the European sert of fifty years ago, then
far mere degraded than the American freed
| men, into the terror Uf kings aud princes.
| The pussps~ion of the soil, my culOred
friends, In this Southern country is great,
social, and political furce which your oppu.
] n hts p, rfectly understand, and which, now
| that they have been fpiled in keeping from
| you the ballet and the rights of citizen
ship, they will employ against you to
the uitrrn' ST. That, gentlemen, is
| the last ditch of the confederate cause.
| They will dght it out on thut line ii it
| takes them all summer But 40 great so
clti revolution is complete that does not
| affect the pussps~iUn of the soil Our South
rru planters, therefore, must make prepara-
ton to get rid of their surplus, uuCuittVatpd
acres,as the gr' Dutch TX oh lders IL New
York was Compelled 10 do, cuerctd by legia-
l4tive action If &C ,sary Int not by con
hscatipn. The forced sale of every plantu-
tIon in Louisiana would add but Il small
sum To the federal treasury, aud he who
eau not earn money e. buy land at its pres
eIt cheap rate does not deserve 30 possess
any.
know an enterprising planter, who at
the Snd uf tie war swOre tho would have
nothing more to do with negroes, and VINO
at gieHt tr uDle and expense Procured o
lot Of Grrmaus-hardy industrious mer,
who under any other circumstances would
have done spendidiy. For few days Jhry
got along tOlerably under the old negro
driving owner. As the planter rode over to
his neighbor for "how'dyn aud gtass of
whisky, he said it really seemed Ike the
good old times. But the Dutchmcn couldn't
stand the lefty n-mea.bacou.Iud.mO-
l4S-aa fyr s,fo I pt,tli yl4
1t was too much like the picayuur, ,seVrn-by-
Line Kingdoms OF Germany. So one bright
| morning Hans picked up his traps and
came away To the city where he could get
sour kr0ut and lager. The planter then
Procured gang Of Chinamen, patient, hard
working fellows, ready to do any tiug from
| tending baby to running steam engine,
needing for subsistence but Il htlln rice,
catfish, aud Mississippi water, ard submit
ting from the servie habits of pga to the
worst of TT, atment But even these China
men couldn't stand the thing, and Hop
Chang, Cnl-IIi and Ching.Whapg, and all
The rest of the pigtail celestlals followed
/ Hans To the city. The planter had to
hire freedmen NJ last to help him ont of th.
grass at "a dollar per day.
Sevcnth-Not only that The spirit of
slavery Is keeping nearly all Improvements
out OF the South. The old planters, who
once declared that white man could not
work M the open air ia Louisiana, still say
pracNcHlly, that cotton and sugar can OILY
/ oa crown ID thc state, ana Cnst 10 raise tutm
successfully you must have thouatud acre
plantation and at least fifty or hundred
| iictumen' M9hstrous dtluslon NhaL
| libel upon the bounty Of God TO maintain
tnHt ouly cotton and sugar-tbe rich mans
pOoHc'S-ctn De grown In LOUIS ann, and
that The poor mans grains can not n, raised
upon nrr SOIL what rene 'tlon upon our
common sense! what commentary upon
Ihe boosted wisdom OF the chl'a.ry That
| "hlIc IN the Gillette aud worst governed
l.c countries OF the old world there Is plenty
ol i""d. thousands OF people, boih black
| ana "hue, III tne south, are destitute nt
meat ana oreao Trace me lsol mals OF
lhe cotton ahu sugar helts I'll Louisiana
on The map. Do they not lead yun through
SIC ana Ia y. E-yptand Ag~rlt the Tlch-
esI Stati producing countries iii me world!
10 You Know nl any iarmer "h3 mas
gone 10 work with his own hands who has
NOT succeeded! u you knO@ vi anY planter
VINO mas not lalltd! have IN my mlhd
nm Arkansas pianler VINO, with MY freed
men, Maue one hunureu ana nILy DhIcS ut
cotton, whlie hart working farmer NJ the
same nrighburhu, d, ny the aid OF his two
sons and three freedmen, made slN'y-siX
bales OF cotton, or eleven bales to the hand.
why, the plant ers said that grass would not
cavalry encamped you viii hnd splendid
helds Of timothy and over, rs ut Port
Hudson, where the benlghted planters are
actually trying to run them out as they
would nOXuus weeds. Two years ago rode
over inc hhgnlacent prairie OF Opeluusas,
Suu elgnteeh hlles from the town ol WASH,
ingtUn | SAW them hauling hay which had
been brought al! the way from the sta OF
Maine, purchased in New Orleans at forty
hVe dollars per ton, ana then shipped three
hundred miles ou steamboat when any
one, ~lth the AID OF mower aud raker,
could have made money by cutting hay any
where ON that beautiful prairie vt five
dollars per ton, They say IL takes surgical
operation 10 get an ldea into the head Dt
PrnnsylVanla Dutchman, but your South
ern planters are stIil harder 10 learn. IL
was only after fifteen Thousand federal ahd
| confederate soldiers had been buried in the
vicinity Ot Curlnth that the people
in that vicinity would believe
that grass would grew on the soil
as wel' OF even oetter, inr the 1armet luai
cotton i'r the planter. Wheu went North
! last summer, between here ard CHru saw
people tnlling with their po 7 implements
and worse mrthnds-tur It's great mistake
! that people Snuth do not wOrk, they work
! at tremendous disadvantages every
where from the Mississippi To the Hudson
heard the cheerful music of mowers aud
reapers. White everywhere the people are
adopting the new methods OF agriculture
aud those new aud wonderful laOsrsuylug
machines that lltt the toll from the should.
ers uf hard worked meu and wumeE and
| place them upon wood and iron aud coal,
! while even I'm Eglpl there are M less than
Ihr'e hundred steam plows employed ii
| cultlVatihg c"ttol', Inc purtabie engines
, be ng not ouly made 10 piow the ground. to
! drive the gins, but also 10 drag ihe Cllton
I bales To market along the common nigh way