Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-09-23

the plantation rs to their condition aud
aspirations. He has some sixty freed
men 10 bis employ, and expects to raise
a very good crop of cotton this season.
He owned three hundred slaves before
| the war. Heis man Of wide influence,
| in the county, and his opinion on mat
ters and things can be safely taken as a
| reHex of the sentiments of the planters
| of the whole county. had very long
conversation with him as to the conduct
Of the negroes in bis vicinity, and in
what manner their enfranchisement
seems to have affected them. .
"How do you find your hands2" in-
| quired during the conversation, faith
| ful in their work ?" Z, 49, .s.f III u
/; y"As general thing they are pretty
steady. But it requires q very nice
management on our part to keep them
I together. We have certain control
over them which only goes a certain way.
! IF they take notion to go off when they
| please, why they can do so. and have
often done SO; but, then, that's their
own lookout, for, ss for myself, never
! employ q man again who has once bro
ken faith with me- Many of the hands
employed on the plantations every once
| in while get it into their heads they
must 60 to the cities, for what purpose l
do not know, and it does not matter bit
to them what condition the crops are in
! or how damaging to the employer their
absence may be. IF they make up their
minds to 20 they will 60 despite all en-
treaties. / have learned by experience
how to humor my hands and render them
to certain degree very particular as to
| their work. Once in while set apart
day or two on which they can make a
frolic, or 20 to the towns, and this seems
to satisfy them. II must say, however,
that as whole the hands are steady and
willing to work, but, then, one doesn't
know when the wolves are to come into
the fold" -
k0"Who may the wolves be you speak
Fellows who seem to have nothing
better to do than to create mischief; half,
and-half politicians, who are, suppose,
in the employ of men who are in the want
of votes-once they get among the me-
groes there'sno telling where the end is
to come. / know several of my friends
in the neighborhood who had, by careful
-,.-..o,,s,, s,,ot. -xoootbar oorna of the
a'fo" ha.. s"iJ S..Js 81 ~ ,ha v;c;n;,v and
ouSsu.h;na ouss h; - n morL amooth,v whan' these
..:ys ~. ysas I:.;.i ar,.s.s 'ars;rad Ina
i.'u ai,eI 1u. "a.;. po ss. hr q. 1h;eh nrt
csneu .nee..ns aba .Sa y,n,b;n~ ~, III aIsa ne
VI oa.,os,y .:Ias m1 Sama,i IA 10 500 sosrns |
M noEiooo a.souaou. ~ "a c.SIs,,. thnt,ba,,
W.T. ~ upuI Wy Ill ahnrt What mil.
slauuany osean W w - IL $50 nnd
shoJ s,os ~ou.S uo ,tu;ah, ~ u;. negro bnt
as WIG onu VI "a ~ So iaH ~ he nIsn.l
~: VI WI TIL w n 81 ~ noi;,;coi nm.
ta.iou :ney VIII Eli. on u I;Uad 7 dnn't
ue1voIs, Jotnou o,u n aau @ s oc ,han,
hhow INV ous o.'1u 90" nay y, an;nr ua
- Nas H. S,.oa.. ~ .or. and vat 90 az
,s.nS, uous w s ,he;s AL al nend;,;on 10, ,bey
ouesos sso.uI !. ~ s.,n.n;n,, 80 wort =,
pre'9,.eu ~ wv r.nt ai5 a. ~ nn,;,;o;o -.
pus wnaI soou .oe,e w? pS' 81 ';n
aeiIvs iron 'n'S way VI a0''ns -. : ~
quareo. v.aa
g,ea. u1al W sJcu ~ ufss III
uers,auu WAY 'ne 'n'eone '. :. od nj
91 ,, 10 not Co"e aoou' ~ q" 'oasons.
nsnever tnere 10 an eieouUu y. ap3
hina sney IRE las oer.a,a ;nta -, II ,ha
~ aat vo,ars 'oolon;zed in The cities.
Tbssy So ssoeraj,v con,e with the nlea of
hiring iahorers At Sb;p wages AT least
that d NV on;n;on, Now although a
srast s mn her ~ of negroes do 90 off with
shess man and sufFsr afterward for their
fooI;sbness 7 mnst saw that all of them
are not hind 10 their own interests.
Those who siav On the farms and planta-
tions and work steadily seldom or never
rive beea N nol;t;cs one wav or the
ee,har and ;f tbev Jo AZ election times
eYnress a ass;ra ~ 90 and vote. thew |
aJwavs eo m tbe emniover and ask him
mhat wev he would l;ka them to vote.
Th;s ,ney sasr, strsnge ~ Won bnt n ia
,he ao,nsI fsct Tho gooS steady work. |
ars wbo have ali tbey can wish for on |
sbs nlan,a,;ons and are contented with
H. aond;,;nn lonL nm ~ ns with the
same Jsfsrenca and nbed;enoe as thew |
J;S whsn hound % ns ss slavss. And / |
I'LL I ssv % ,ha, of ,b;s bind of hands Won
navsr % 5sar anabt that Il had They are
~, ns ,hos. 's,so eomn,;, ,ontragea The
vaoabonds and rasoals who live without |
wo,L and feed az nnhI;o exnense are the |
wors sba .eso - puov ,hs ~ hIacks"
~, "n e-' : - - A.
~ :, DO you tnink Tue negroes ARG ns'u
rally gwen 10 CON mmitung tne ouusges
which are so oiten charged against
them frT. ,Gt .Cf
candidly 90 not Inc wnlte msn
from the North are az the pottom o. ,ns
whole trouble. l believe IN my neart ana |