Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-07-14

the door ana let all come 10 uS-oWISS3
Germans, Irish, 4Swedes-we viii re-
ceive them all, for we have need OF
every variety of labor. We have
swamps, uplands, mines and forests,
and each will adapt himself to that
for which he is fit. European labor
ers are not going into the swamp.
That character of soil is not friendly
to the Caucasian race, and though 1t
is more prolific than any other, a
white man cannot stand to labor or
live in it. But it is no act of inhu-
mainly to the negro or the Monaghan
to put them there. They thrive there
and are peculiarly adapted to it. AS
to our uplands, the European laborer
will settle them up, and We want
them. Let ue appoint our immigra-
ton agents, who shall receive them
when they land, and bring them
among US. Let us take them by the
hand and make them our political
and social equals. There IS an
inexhaustible field of labor for them.
But in the mean time, what are you
going to do with our vast extent OF
alIuvial soil-the soil that must be-
come our Egypt? The men Of the
South wish to hire their labor and su-
perintend their own land. This can
not be done with Caucasian labor.
These European immigrants who
come here want to get a little piece OF
land and cultivate it themselves; they
want to 90 in on their own hook.
You do not want that sort of labor,
but you want that which you can con-
troll and manage to some extent as Of
old. The men of the South wish to
| retain their landed possessions and
cultivate them themselves; and to be
able to feel, when they looked at their
fields, that they are mOnarchs OF all
that they survey. / do not stand
here in opposition to the African; L
have, on the contrary, a most kindly
feeling toward the African race,
and teeI...that their greatest enemies
are those who would persuade them
that we are their enemies. | do not
believe that there is another race that
during the late war, situated as they
were, would have committed so few
excuses rs they did. I-say, and l
know what l say, that this was the
feeling Of the whole Southern people
toward the negro at the close of the
war, and if they had let US, we would
have taken them by the hand and
been their friends. We think that
they are kindly disposed, but We do
not think that they were born for
politicians. If they were let alone we
could show them that their interests
and ours harmOnized and coalesced.
But do we owe it to this ace to
leave IL own greatest and best inter-
ests to perish? Shall we commit sui
eide for them? Are we to let our
fields lie idle until they arc grown up
with thOrns and thiStles? Are we
comforting a boon on the negro by SO
doing? Our duty to ourselves de-
mands that we bring the Chinaman
here, and then shall our fields put
forth again.
Again as to the mixture OF races:
GodEas established a supremacy of
race, and man, although he may try,
cannot undo what God has done. He
has conferred upon the white E3Ce the
supremacy. The history of the world
has shown that it was always dOmi-
nant. In the scuffie Of the races that
is now going on, it maintains its SUI
kFeDacy. PhilanthrOpists tell Us that
the fe&sGL shy the negro is degraded
is that he has GIWsys, ND to the close
Of the late war, beenkeBI il ECndage,
slavery and ignorance. Why, haG Is
not have belonged to al inferior race
he would never have been in
slavery. Why had the Caucasian
never been permanently reduced to
slavery? God conferred superiority
upon 5IEl. There is no use to COM
plain Of this. AOd has made individu-
ais ditferept-some Superior t9 others.
What right has the clay 70 eQmpI&iL
of the potter? Tbs supremacy of tie
white race is an chronological fact, and
they wifi WELD the power throughout
all times. Applause. | am not
sfraid Of its being displaced. we had
the Red G7an here and the African,
and yet our taGe las carried the ban
ner, and will carry Il tiii TIC lest note
of time has pealed. You may s.
vera and turn them over for a time,
but the great i@WS of God will assert
themselves sQPrfme,
You need not fear am&lgamauql
that other bugbear. I Heard q gentle
man-nO doubt conscientious. ridi-
AhAAAlE AuC Nuk-CN GU ldb thlElBs Ha#A
dreading the effects of amalgamatiOn
with them. They have as yet brought
no women with them, and as to our
women taking a fancy to them | thik
there IS nOt tie slightest danger. If
they are rat eaters So nHch the better.
We can get rid of Ou| extra rats in
that way 1 hope they viii GeIle 44d
n bring a terrier with him,
But testing aside, they are n peculiar
people and do not mingle or amalga- I
mate. But be that as it may, what
ever may be in the future, the white
race is able to take care of
itself. We must have labor, |
ana must bend our energies
TO getting - Where are we to get it
from? Not in Europe In this eX-
pertinent, which is really LC eyperi-
ment, but a fixed fact, we have tue
great light Of history and expeaieRce
to guide us. We have the West In
lies before Us. There, in a tropical
as in our semi-tropical, expe-
renee taught that the great staples
Gould not be produced by voluntary
abor, but under cOerced labor sys-
.ematized and overlooked by intelli-
yence. 1t is not like the cultivation
the ordinary staples-cOrn, wheat,
-tc,; We must have labor that the
,Wner Of the soil can control. Eman-
occurred IL the West Indies
Is here. Before it, under the old sys-
of labor, the West Indies was the
of the world, and poured
heir treasures into the lap ofEngland
n a golden stream. Emancipation
tePped in, and things went rapidly
bad 70 worse. The ~philanthrO-
lists who went out frQm England re-
1rned home disguised. TGe GOnse-
uence was the Islands relapsed into !
arbarism, the serpent and the wild ;
east c ready to spring upon the :
asser-by IL the jungle, the people ,
rent back to saEages, But these !
anne islands now employ 4 eOeFeed :
lbOr, and again blossom like the :
lse; again they are an earthly para :
Use. Whose labor is it that has done )
MS? India and China answers. .
labor supplies the place :
f that stricken down by emaneipa- !
on, and the country again !
)mmence to be what it once was. :
hall we not profit by its example,? :
If all the negro labor in cur coun- d
y were employed to-day there would Il
i'll be a vast ~unOccupied field of labor L
hich our necessities would compel
to employ some other race to I'LL. {,
Te don't care to shove the negro to u
lie side. He is imposed upon when Fl
is told so. We need him and the b
linese also. The lights Of history Fl
- fhaA a1TT only gOarran 10 nhtofn II