The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1870-11-03
sensible Advice.

Sensible Advice.
Judge Claggett is at his old homo
in Maryland, and writes to his Keo-
kuk Cehstitstson tho following Of the
condition Of tAs seedy respecta5les
in that Stats Who have bssh sent
kdrih by M tssalts Of the rebellion,
and who rs 10 proud to work, and
TOO lazy, u steal: Y
sThs Sorhsf Wealthy slavsholding
planters have nearly Ill passed away
70 another, and / hope to- q better
world, while their largo landed e.
tates - fertile ~ any land In the
world --hsving descended to their
children, to whom manual labor was
unknown and who, by early train.
ing, through precept and example,
were taught 10 sp6nd money a. q
gehtlemanly accomplishment, while
to work TO accumulate it, was. . de-
graduation, have nearly allpassed out
Of their hands into the possession of
sttanEerS, or are under heavy mort.
cages which will soon cause them to
undergo the same process under the
sheriff's hammer. It IL q sad sight
to . person who like myself knew The
fathers Of theBs voting men who have
grown up since l left the State, tosee
them reduced to poverty, and yet too
proud or too thrfftlass TO make indi.
vidual effort, by fhantial labor and
frugality, to secure 10 themselves /
comfortable abundance Of all that ID
required to mako 4 man or 4 family
happy in this worlds enjoyments.-
Down, down these young mon 20 ,ons
after another, from afiauence to pov.
erty, still maintaining and manifest
ing, in their actions d well az Their
feelings, that Stiffness Of pride which
IL at the bottom Of oil their real o,
Aginarv tnisibrtuneS. How much
happier and moro respectable would
they be2 we're they to accept firmly
if not cheerftlly, the changed. condi.
lions Of affairs and adapt Themselves
to them, instead Of idling away
theit time and complaining o,
the wrongs which they imagine
have been done them by the peo.
pie Of the North, East and West
instead Of attributing them to the
natural result of . war, which Their
leading politicians, whom they blind.
" followed, uselessly and sense!essly
led them into. That class Of white
people in this country who were &C
customed to labor, in former times
upon other mems plantations for hire
are now, in many instances, becom.
ing the owners Of farms, and in q few
years more the spectacle will be pre-
scented here of the former ovcrseerf
and their children occupying tht
farms which the late shareholders had
. monopoly in, while, we doubt not
the sons and grandsons Of the former
wealthy owners will occupy the pla
ces oflaborers, for the sons and grand
sons of the men who were their faith
ers' overseers. This must be the in
evitable result Of industry and thrift
on the one hand, and Incidence and
thriftlessness on the other. How
easily might all this be avoided BY
those very men to whom we refer
They have only to 60 to work on thei,
own farms, or on rented farms, i
driven to that necessity by incum
ORANGES on their estates created b.
their fathers, and learning TO saw
money, instead Of expanding it il
useless frivolities, which undermin,
the understanding and enervate tn,
body. IF others can start here will
nothing, on rented farms-as many
have done since the late war-ant
made money, besides supporting thei
families, it is made perfectly plail
that those who have farms Of thel,
own need not have lost them, or ba
come emDaraSSed IN their pecunlar1
AFFAIR."