Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1869-02-18

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and sufficient spare time Is fount
by the hand to keep everything il
good repair. A less number 0
mules are required in proportion t.
the hands-a difference Of NOR
than one.half; a great saving ofex
peqse-nearly enough to buy th,
manures, te
Cotton, if not King, is at least I
member Of the "royal family 0
commodities and unless superced
ed by the "Ramie,% or something
else, will be sure to maintain siti
position for all time to come; anc
while there is an increasing demand
for it, there is a diminishing sup.
IplY, and it will continue to dimin,
ish as long as the present method
of culture continues. But change
the system of agriculture, re organ
ize the labor already there, let the
tide of emigration 80 there as it is
going West, and it will not be long
until the crop is doubled in amount
and true and lasting prosperity mi
tiated; with lands as high as those
in the North, with school houses in
abundance, churches repaired, and
roads made good, and society lifted
out of the "dust and ashes - The
material prosperity is the necessary
basis of all other prosperity; and
never in the history Of the world
has any nation ever attained to any
eminence in the arts and sciences,
in literature, or in moral and intel.
lectual culture, without having been
preceded and accompanied by ma
terial prosperity, Hence, l expect,
as necessary sequence to the re-
organization of the material pros
perity of that country, anything
else to follow, and more especially,
as all class barriers are broken
down, that Of "Race" only remain
ing. The people everywhere ex-
press themselves as anxious for
Northern emigration to come to
that country and help develop its
resources, not only that OF agrit ul-
ture, but the mines, manufactures,
&c. and it is my impression that
they can live just as safely in that
country as in any Of the Western
States. The best way to emigrate
there would be in colonies, or sew
eral families to settle. in the same
neighborhood, buy one or more Of
the large plantations, divide it up,
and improve the land; go to make
their homes there. | would not
advise any one to 60 there, to rent
land, and farm it according to the
system of farming practiced there,
or even buy lands with the same
view. There is enough already
there, and more than enough, to
command all the labor that will
work in the cotton field, But 60
there, buy the lands and improve
them, and farm them with the same
care that land is farmed in this
country, and the same success will
be attained. Go there and open
out the mines-the country is said
to be rich in all the different kinds,
and easily worked, Go there and
erect Cotton Mills, there is the ma
.eral and the labor to run them
All the cost of transportation will
De saved, which is quite an item,
md will enable the manufac;or to
with the World.
Go there as laborers, either with
land or brain, and take all the la
oor that you can with you. That
country has supported "drones"
lntil it can support them no longer
It wants the workcr to restore it
o lift it out of the Slough Of De
,pond," and put it in its true place
II this great Republic,
But in REGARD to the Freedmen.
hat is to be their future? This !
question has occupied the minds of
he best thinkers of every age of
he Republic, andgreat diversity of
opinion has been entertained
During a period Of 244 years-the
ime that elapsed from their first
in Virginia in 1921, to
heir final emancipation in 1865
hey increased with such remarkable
apidity that it was feared they
would in time master the white
ace and hence one cause for the
tringent legislation to keep them
n ignorance. 1t is well known
What severe penalty was attached
0 the ofTense Of teaching them to
cad T.
Thomas jefferson says (Me