Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-08-08

more and more to their work, COM
pretending better their true situation,
relations and dependence, and will
continue to improve precisely in
the ratio of the disappearance
of these disturbing causes, and the
amount of good will considerable treat
ment and honest dealing extended to
them by their employers. | look
upon them as our best ard most profit
able reliance for labor and service;
but we must have more patience,
and take more pains with them.
Their sudden emergenee from ignO-
rant bondage into freedom we should
not forget was enough to turn Their
heads 1t turned old John Adams to
his dying hour, the thought OF being
free from British colOniage. Wonder
full then, under all the circumstances
assailing his untutored mind, wonder
fully good has been the general be
haviOr. And we thank them n love
them the more for it.
Another source to which we may
look for a legitimate and wholesome
increase of labor, is from that class OF
of our own agricultural people living
| in the North and West, who Will soon
enough come among us with their
families, muscle and capital, to settle
permanently. They will come, be as
/ sured of it, and soon enough, and
enough of them for all salubrious pur-
poses: and Just so soon a they think
| thew can come without being ku-
KluXed or scalped. Greeley's''bloody"
correspondents in the South, and Har-
per's CHASTITY Ku-kluX pictures have
kept them frightened back. But the
prize is too daZZling-a hundred and
fifty dollars for a bale of cotton is too
magnetic not to attract them. They
are indeed already marching on"
Already have penetrated Tennessee
numerous families or settlements"
from Pennsylvania. Sprague, the
Rhode Island millionaire, IS now
erecting a monster cotton mill in Au-
gusta, Ga. A colony of Belgians is
about entering Alabama, and accounts
from Germany represent quite a fu-
rore to be existing there to emigrate
to our Southern States. So we may
! believe that even without help from
| Asia we are not likely to suffer unless
it be from an overflow of human mus
| Gle and its redundant products. If We
but assist President Grant to "have
peace" and the carpet-bag liars cease
/ to write lies about US to the Tribune
and other papers (which | am not GER
tain is not of real value to us), and
cetton "keeps up" why there will be
no keeping them out. And l am
| quite confident that the prevailing
sentiment among the cotton planters,
before two more years roll around,
will be that too much immigration has
taken place. And should a flood OF
muscle pour in upon US from Asia in
conjunction with the "rise" that is
coming from Europe and " the North"
may God help the ''land we love-" her
tOiling children, and the price of her
bales. +. s. l..
We insert the above from respect to
the author, and because we are will
ing to give an antagonist view a fair
hearing. We do not see that it is any
matter of objection to the Convention
that it did not go into any grave de-
liberation on the subject of the eXpedi-
ency of introducing Chinese labor.
Probably there was no one in it so
acute as our friend "F. S. L." and
that no one saw so much. Such men
as they were, they seem to have acted
on an intuition, that, having been de-
prived of half the labor necessary to
cultivate their lands, it would be adj
vantageous to supply the laborers up
to the old maximum. That used to
be our notion, when we had more
land than workers, and used to pay
out fifteen hundred dollars to add q
single laborer. We want laborers
still, the best wecan get. And so,
not dreaming of objection from any
quarter, the Convention proceeded to
initiate a cooperative movement.
But we believe, if Aston was to come
here with a plan to use ten millions
in manufactures, railroads Orlow pres
sure steamers, if q thousand French
men should come to establish vine
yards, or ten thousand Germans to
raise stock, grain and vegetables, or
even If all the dead-beats in the cOun-
try should take a notiOntog oto work,
somebody would rise up and object to
it. To find that which is without an
0bactOr would be to find in nature some
n unmixed good without its bane.
However the complexion Of the
Convention may have appeared to our
correspondent, we think it included
quite the usual share of planters, and
that it was the planting interest more
especially which was represented in it
and controlled it. Planters, like other
business men, ordinarily reach their
conclusions more by reflection on their
interests than through the debates of
Others in Convention or otherwise.
And hence they acted in this instance,
only permitting a little of the elo-
quent and platitudinous," which our
correspondent knows so well how to
get of, and which never hurt much
by swelling slightly to somewhat
large dimensions.
But, if OF. S. c." had been there,
he would have asked how many bales
would be produced by the new labor
ers, and what then would be the price
of cotton. And he might have talked
about his l." eapaciOus coffee pot" and
protested that he would not have 1t,
full, because a single cup full was all
he wanted. We do not exactly know
how big his coffee pot is, but we don't
believe a word about that. We have
idea il is any whopper, though it
may be somewhat " eloquent and pla-
titudinOus," and we believe, if we
should happen along at our friends
farm e would be glad to have his coffee
pot, and his dinner pot too, well
filed and running over with the full
q platitude of hospitality. On the
ground that he would not have
his coffee pot full, he would have only
half his acres cultivated. he thinks
It would bring the price of cotton
down too much. Well, then, we an
sWer, don't plant all cotton-plant
Dne-third cotton and two-thirds corn
Or other grain. That is the way to
10 it-use your labor in the way it
viii profit you mest-unless you think
viii have only the effect Of a
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