Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-12-15
TTEHPEEES APPEAL
,rynlY aORyING, DEC. IS, 1879.
=. L.noa QUESTION.

s1aLNA q G1AaDA-
Sc publish a E,eFy Interesting article
This morning on the labor question.
rom the pen-uf-C. NIB. Fhurmond.
We are gFatllea so see this subject at
rafting 50 much attention. It is one
thsf vitality concerns the future prosper
ity Of the Southern people. If the
south is to be Afrisanized, placed under
lbe domination Of the ignorant blacks,
and thus made unnt Tor tine habitSti0T
# white men. the sooner this fact il
made known the better for the whites
Who have learned by sad expert
-aentin south Carolina, that they can.
not live in a community ruled by-ne
rrses. We have discussed this subject
iuY the interest Of both races
Bh the knaves who hav'
used the negro TO accomplish
their vile purposes, discuss it simply IL
the intersat of the negro, and in such {
wy as 10 proIong the prejudices they
nave already instilled into credulOui
minds by falsehOOds. These tickster'
twaddle about the wrongs Of the ne.
groes, but they have no sympathy fol
the suferings Of the South. In Soutf
Carolina the negroes are already discuss
ing what they shall do with the few
Whites that remain in their midst; anC
the whites Gle anxiOas to know whai
they will do with themselves, as they
are too poor TO remove from the hell tha'
fortunes them. This viii he the cry il
every Southern State, and in Memphis
should the negroes obtain rule as they
have 5one in South Carolina,
It seems like ar absurdity
10 talk longer about securing immigra.
lion to the South. The experiment has
been made for six or seven years. But
White foreigners are loath to locate in 6
community c@gsed with negroes ever
ready to hurl themselves against the
whites. We hope MIR. Humans sug-
ge5ticns Will result in the adoption OF
some plsn which viii pour into the
South a constant stream Of white emf
grafton. Cotton can be raised as read
lily by white as black labor. The cham
pioRs Of the negro, those who appeal TO
his passions sud pIeiudiees for the pun
po5 discerning fis vote, are continually
asserting that the climste cf the South
IS unsuited to white labo-, and only
negroes can raise cotton. This is 8 mis-
axe, for IL there was not a negro ia the
south, ia three years time there would
e double the Of cotton raise3,
because the stream ofjmrigration, now
damned up 10y tne presence Of the ne
sro. would flow over the south, until
he whole country would be filled up by
thffty, educated white people. II is a
Loaf ahsurditv To suppose that none but
negroes can grow cotton. The large
~plaatations cultivated by negroes are
.onrentrated in the rich lands Of the
rivers, but the great mass Of the
white population is settled on the
rich lands in the interior. As the
South has but few manufactures, OF
INDEPENDENTLY all are q
aged in agriculture and, in the more
southern States, in cotton cultivation.
The quantity Of cotton raised by exclu-
-iye white labor has been immensely
greater than has heretofore been est
mated. In every part Of the South, As
-ooR rs you leave the limits Of the great
'Isntations during the season of cultva-
.iod5 We find not only white men, but
women and children, boys and girls, Ia
at all hours in the fields, without
Il the pretended climatic and
.ni8smatic influences which are so erron-
,ously imagined 10 be detrimental to
white labor. These people are uniform
Y the most robust, vigorous and healthy
# the population. In the vicinity Of
New Orleans, all the market-gardens
Ire worked through the hottest days OF
he year By German laborers, men and
women. AL acknowledging, levying,
Itching, railroad building, is done by
-rish-and German Iaborers. The great
uulSer trade, carried on with the great
81 activity in the summer, and requir-
ng great physical vigor and endurance,
$ also conducted by white labOrers. For
many years the cotton shipped in such
arge quantities from the Attakapas
.egion, which is half a degree nearer
ne tropics than New Orleans, was the
product Of as hearty, vigorous and pro-
lie a white race as the world can show.
the late war, when, owing TO the
reorganization Of the lsbors, the owners
we're unable 10 raise cotton sufficient to
lay their expenses, the proprietors Of
en- and twenty acres would produce by
he labor Of themselves, their wives and
hildren, three, six, eight and ten bales,
IS well as the necessary articles for their
ubsistence, and thus clear very hand
ONE profits, It is believed that cotton
an be more successfully and profit
bly, cultivated in small farms
the old plantation system.
he cotton which is thus cultivated,
licked and ginned, in smaller quantities
nd by intelligent and vigilant whites,
commands better prices in mar
ct on account Of is cleaner condition
nd superior quality. There is no agri-
literal product which is % profitable at
resent prices, and regarding the low
CURES At which the planters are now
compelled, by their embarrassed circum-
to sell their rsch lands, there
an BE- no better Investment than in the
urchsse Of such lands. The prices Of
he best lands now are about one-half Of
hat they were before the war They
re certain 70 advance rapidly-as GER
Ainly as mankind are to need and de-
such n~eces5aries and comforts Of
fe q cotton, sugar and rice. Now is
hme for the enterprising aud intel
gent races Of Europe TO secure them
elves the cheapest and the most com
jrtable homes in the world, and to ac-
uinea quiet and certain competence.
-lready Ohe-icurth OF the population OF
he South consists OF their W blood
nd'race, and they constitute at present
he Eaost thriving portion Of or people,
ndfnclude a majority of4he wealthiest
nd most prosperous Of our citizens. In
le South they via not find themselves
mQng strangers. There is no class of
emigrants who dOsnQt find a
.rge number Of their cOuntrymen, and
no do not see many familiar memorials
fatherland, Of the habits, customs,
Tvs ana institutions in which they have
cen nurtured, and who do not expert
nee rom all classes a hospitable vel
a generous sympathy, ana ever
lady hberality and alaerity to encOur-
ye- ufofact and facilitate in aveTv nos