The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1869-02-10
De5portes, Williams & Co., Props
Immigration Again, and "That Commit


who suggested, through
chis papor, plan of operation, but
n over callod meeting to report, and
never oven recommended the election
Of offioers, the Committee Of which
.Sawnec Creek" and "True Recon.
structionist'' were members, arc re-
suonsibh for bucbening the chances of
immigration in this District. With
faint hoarts, because they wore, like
Ill Southernors, unaccustomcd to bu'
siness combinations on principles OF
simple common sense, and because
simple common sense, both in doing
and forbearing to do has not been the
rule in the South or in this District,
they allowed tho movement to col-
lapse, Ono member Of that commit
teo, it is truo, desired to canvass the
planters, and engage, as an individual
enterprise, to dclivor, at "i"nsboro
Depot, immigrants to them, the
cost of importation, for cash promptly
paid down. But ho has not dcno SO.
Tho price Of cotton is tho real secret.
Indeed, wo fear that the high price of
cotton has caused many ruinous con-
tract with the blacks, and has blinded
tho Dyes of landlords to their true in
terost in giving immigration gradu'
al, steady and earnest support. For
we are no wild thcorist, who believes
in q very rapid Introduction of the la,
Dor and improvements that our social
condition calls for, bub simply ca dis.
ocrnor Of the signs Of tho times"
whose duty it is to foster every enter.
prise that contains within it tho germs
of present or Of future good to our
people.
We repeat. therefore, that that I'm
migration Committee carry heavy
load of responsibility, in not bringing
their labors to tho point of report
and an organization. 1t is thoir duty
moD eucn, to do 30. Lot the organlza.
tion be formed and be ready to ttke im-
mediate advantage of the shifting tides
of opinion, gaining some little ground
when ever feeling sets in strongly in
favor Of importing skilled, labos. e." 80
God deliver us from the repetition of
such calamity, but suppose that 1869
should happen to resemble 1867 in its
unfortunate history. But the argu-
mont is too plain and too painful-wo
hope better things, and need not 60
beyond tho present moment for ire
sistiblo reasoning. Now, thon, at this
very present moment, are there not
planters who have offered the oquiva-
lent of over $40 per month, and failed
to obtain tho labor they need Wo
mot ono but yesterday, who denounced
bitterly the duplicity aud faithlcss-
ness of tho blacks he had tried to bar
gain with on terms plainly disadvan-
tagcous in every event, and full of
risk to himself. This gentleman, wo
beliovo, has cotton, has somo money.
has land, has mules, has everything,
but he needs labor, steady labor. If
"that Committee" had not become faint
hearted too soon, if they had organiz-
cd, they had collected even ten dol
lars for tho cause, here was planter
that might mo'o, have settled one fami.
ly of immigrants at least. Perhaps
(for we cannot bo cortain} there may
DO others like him. But what will
DO tho probable result in this case,
and in others (ifthere be any) like it
Why, he will lose valuable time, and
finally, in desperation, consent TO q
still more ruinous contract than the
ono no has offerod, and be treated, for
tho rest of the year, by Sambo, as if
he, Sambo, had conferred an cxtraor.
dlnary favor. Deliver us, therefore,
from that mans Drop.
Lot, howevor, ourplantcrs once haze
The constant choice between white ten
ants or laborers and black tenants or
laborors, and. they will, probably,
choose the black, but why? Why ; |
because they haze The constant choice
and everybody will ther efc 70 be reas.
enable, reasonable in mahina, and
reasonable in fa!67tng contracts.
Whenever a planter can't get black
LABOR to suit, just facilitate, BY com1i-
"at'o" on principles cfcommon sense, his
getting white labor, and we may thon
let this whole matter alone to right
itself Oh, then, for some society or
individual, who will in.
vest but ten bales Of cotton in inau.
gurating In Fairfield the most impor-
tant social movement of this genera. :