The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1869-10-06
Dosportcs, Williams & Co., Props
IH-Directed Labor.


Scott, who have great influence with
onr laborcrs, is unfcignod and great :.
TO mix these questions Of industry
up with politics, when there arc so
many other issues that exist, and still
others that can DO made, that would
subscrvc party purposes as well, and
even better, is exceedingly unwisc, ,and
let our rcmonstrancc Lc treated as it
may by such as Scott and lIoge, We
solcmnly AID earnestly rcmonstrato
and protest against course Of con-
duct SO injurious to The Sta;c. No
bar should be made, by exciting po-
litcai animositics and prcjudiccs, to
tho intellect within the State improv.
ing the industry Of the State. It's a
noble and sublime, but an exceedingly
difficult task, to teach even educated
mon, and Of tho most intellectual
races, the pra ,tical value of science,
and tho wisdom of always carrying it
into art. Why cannot Governor
Scott, thcn, who evidently does not
understand the matter, just let the sub
jcct Of labor alone, and speak on other
subjects that would elicit even louder
shouts and more enthusiastic yells Of
applause from the freedmen Ife
should have tact enough, as Gore,nor,
to aroM controvcrtcd topics, which rem
der him liable to the suspicion of be-
ing not only political opponent of
many citizcns of tho State, but also
their bitter and malicious social cno-
my.
The industrial contact Of tho whito
race, tho heirs Of centuries Of conflict
for civilization, with tho black raco,
and their mutual intcrdcpcndencc, at
least for thirty years to come, consti-
tutcs tho greatest Of all of tho pres.
ent favorable providcntial circumstan.
ccs that surround the blacks. The
man who noodles with it, except to
point out tho great advantages of their
situation, if tho blacks will only
steadily and virtuously improve it, is
not only a blockhcad, whose stupid
bubbles, if ho is not hypooritc, will
all burst into nothing, but no is also
q" "namv of both races. n virnr .ho+
wo would most willingly crush. His
ignorance is not sufficient excuse
for his mischief making, for if in high
position, good man will avoid med
ding with mischiovous topics, which
ho is conscious he has not 81, diod,
and which hc does not comprt houd
a rulor should bo wise on such sub
jeots, but if unwiso, and deeply con-
soious that hc is ignorant, he should
at least wisely leave them to take care
Of Themselves, and to be wisely doalt
with by other and wiser men. Tho
point wo above all othors mako in
this article, is this---this question of
wages and labor is a social question,
and should not be mado political is
suo. I....,
1t requires tho calmcst wisdom of
sur wiscst md best citizens to dis.
sominato storm truths concerning
wages and labor as for example {:
that patient industry is necessary, but
6y itself, often begins, and ends, and
will continue to end, in hopeless pov.
crty that industry, besides boing
patient, must bo Intelligent and skill
full; that 1t must combine with other
intelligent and skilful industry, and
consent to firm, unwavcring, steady,
skiltul and Intelligent direction md
that besides all this, it must operate
with sufficient capital md with i'm.
proved machinery, elso production
and wages can not rise and that q
comfortable and even wealthy labor.
ing class, without tho observance Of
these truths, IS impossible, but with
their observance, is certain. p
r"ii'gher wages" depend on no "la.
Dor unions" of unskilful laborors for
Hdd and combine nothing to nothing
as you may, nothing will result.
Higher wages" and comfort, and
education, aud progress, will not
como from "small farms" in thom-
selves but, on tho contrary, thcy
promise, at present, to become moro
seceptacles Of ignorance, idlcness,
VICE. poverty and death. OF to
themselves, If q wrathful Providence
ever permits tho consummation Of
radical wickedncss. sonaratod &c..