The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-03-17
s. C.
Thursday Morning, March IL. 1870.
Duty and Labor Policy OF tho south.

Duty and Labor Policy OF the south.
A writer in DeBo,o's Reuieu for Febru-
ary, thus expresses his views upon this
question. he says:
ga people who would be free, or who
would have their rights respected, in any
composite form of government, must
have the elements of strength or of rep
resentation. This cannot be predicated
of an homogeneous population. To be
free and powerful, people must be so
far homogeneous, as that all may have
the same right to acquire property and
to hold official stations. Society must
be 80 far homogeneous as to present no
obstacles to the most intimate social in
riage OF its people. For, at last, there
society, that envy is, or should be in
cluded in the common supply. the COM
mon welfare, and the common honor of
a common country. When society has
population unequally interested in its
own preservation, it cannot be strong.
When Protestant England has to watch
Catholic Ireland; when republican
France held millions of royalists; when
the United States hos doubts of the at
tachment of the Southern people to the
Government; neither of these Govern
ments can be 30 strong as if the popula-
tion of each was equal in right and au.
thority. The Governments referred to
may readily renounce all the causes
which dissatisfy their own people, and
may readily incorporate! the interests of
all in the common welfare. With por
tion of the population, however, belong
ing to race, alien and incongruous, as
negroes or Asiatics, people never can
become homogeneous. The solidarity
of the people, as Kossuth terms it, 'is
wanting How, then, can population,
half or one-fourth of which is enslaved,
rely upon its whole strength, either in
peace or in war? The conduct of the
Southern slaves was admirable, during
the war. Left to till the land and pro-
teot the families OF tho planters, they
performed their trust we'll. When ibe-
rated by the passage of hostile armies,
they were added to the hostile force
They filled the posts and the graves of
our enemies They made the best ia
tigue force. They were pioneers and
spies. Glad, fed, armed and transported,
they ultimately stood guard over their
masters. Note the difference between q
homogeneous population whose men,
when captured, must be fed and guarded,
and an incongruous population who
added to the strength of the enemy.
When the war is over, this same incon-
gruous population are used as aliens in
interest. Their whole political force is
welded in the interest of the conquer
ors. They not only aid to disarm, but
to disfranchise their former masters.
I, o;of ~;
why the slavery-or indeed the immigra-
amalgamate, is unsafe and injurious. IL
is the duty Of the Southern people to utilize
negro labor, and The negro U0te. 1t must
always be ON incongruous population,
but it may be robbed of its most serious
objections. by prudence and justice. It
is invaluable in producing values, and
those values may be employed in raising,
relieving and restoring Southern pros
perity. There is no reason why, in some
future day, the negro may not vote the
same ballot and serve in the same army
with the Southern whites Bnt this will
be because his presence here is inevita-
ble and his labor cannot be dispensed
with. We cannot, however, consent that
those nations who manufacture and con-
sumo our staple, shall make this the
gathering ground for all Pagan peoples.
We cannot consent that this fatal scheme
to reduce the market price of our staple,
and fill our land with q treacherous or
neutral, and non. combatant population,
shall be carried out. We raise our voice
in warning against the designs of those,
who, like 'Metellus Climber, loves me
not. DO not let The South become again
tie negro quarter Of the aoorld-nor
coolie quarter either.
"Base Southern society on it's own in
tegrity, and its own standard of manhood
and womanhood-and statehood-buiLd
in aoiM the aohite immigrant, material sim
liar 10 that a0hich formed our society. In
struct our youth in all the enterprises of
mixed industry, and it will be always
safe, free, respectable and respected"
A Colored Nan's View OF ..the New Party"
Movement.
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