The New York herald., 1872-12-14

pound and 1t Is emphaticalIy a poor mans lan1,
giving the cheapest sustenance In the world To
these classes may be aadeu restless movement
OF boys, refugees and people worn OUT at the edges
OF character who go to swell the well.kipwn law
is KIND OF DR.. Francia conner, who has governed
with a high hand, represscd iawessness with a
terrible mounted police and lost the State Tor MS
party.
The condition OF the negro since his emanci-
patton has disappointed almost every prophet who
undertook to predict against him. He is good
deal OF nuisance In his desire to talk politics and
lntrude upon the company OF the white politicians
millions and hall bales oil cotton. Who grew that
cotton2 Who picked itf What besides has the
South produced for itself In the past seven years
In the sugar field also the negro is the sole re-
lance, and the present year viii show great in
crease over the last as the last over the year which
yield Of sugar was between 20O,oOD and
100000 hogsheads. THIS iell directly after
the war to little above $1,000 hogsheads;
year it win have passed 100 0o0 according TO some
accounts. The rice fields also which had been
abandoned or nearly SO in the Carolnas. are again
maintained in Louisiana and the South, and II
there be prevailing necessity Tor domestic rice
we may expect that the black mans labor may DC
again effective upon this staple.
COTTON, SUGAR, RICE, TOBACCO.
Taking cotton, sugar and rice as exponents OF
what the negro is willing to do IN his tree cond-
ton, we have more reason to be astonshed by his
application than discouraged. The year IS not far
OIL when 100000 bales OF cotton and 100000
OF the Southern states; but in money the cotton
win represent $4o0,oO00o0, and the sugar,
that has passed through such a revolution. When
passed tErough North Carolina and the great to-
tbev rase @ as in od tmes
"Morc, reckon. They don't work 1t in as big
patches rs they used to- bat more people have un-
dertaken 1t, ana although they are growing tobacco
in Connecticut and all over the North and Wcst we
seem TO be as busy here as in the Old days"
When we come to comparison OF gross produc-
~ or hpt ~
OF emancipation, 1t may be SAID that North Caro-
lima, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky and Texas are
inconCeivaby better of. Virginia depended for its
greatest profits upon the
BREEDING OF SLAVES,
to be sold to the Gulf states and OF course that sort
Roanoke River, the StauntOn and the Appomattox,
one looks upon beautiful country, which was
nothing more than pasture field for human live
stock. II we reflect that the fell decree OF
emancipation destroyed nearly five hundred thou
$500 or $500 head, It also increased immeasurably
the happiness security and family stability OF just
that many breathing and thinking things. No est-
include the enormously bettered and appreciated
condition of the negro. II a certain number OF men
point to the vast assets anniatea 10 slaves an
for the injury. The method, obedience and indus
try which the slave system demanded OF the negro
has been OF use to him in his free condition, while
the master, who had served no such apprentice
ship, finds himself, in the majority Of cases, the
end OF his ambition is to get an office ana keep It,
RECONSTRUCTION AND POLITICS.
Reconstruction has been a bungle in the South.
but the great curse Of society there has been poll
TICS For this passion many proud and valorous
men in the Confederate army have made shipwreck
OF consistency and high-mindedncss, and joined the
carpet-baggers to get some portion OF the lOaveS
and fishes. There is q deep and general feeling OF
sulenness that the negro has been given political
rights oc liberty oft OF mSetGg ace a. aaa
said to me that there was no rational complaint to
be made against the black man, although he was
often put up by white politicians to give annoy
ance.
'.Some time ago." said Governor Smith, "when
my house was full of company, my servants came
In body before had gotten out OF bed and said
they were going to leave me right of. They gave
no reason and made no complaint, but 90 they
would. Now that meant simply thls-that some
had alarmed the credulity OF those negroes, or de-
manded in the name OF their party loyalty that
they should give me that unnecessary bOthero
Governor Smith intlmated that the secret po-
litical leagues Of the South had been the bane of
both cOlors since the war. This Is plain to any
traveller. Tie loyal Leagues melted the formation
OF the Ku Klux, and now, when nobody questions
the black mans franchise, and he Is fully equal In
numbers and courage to his former masters, the
nuisance OF the secret leagues goes on Tor the pur
pose OF conserving the white politicians position,
and If you put your hand upon the shoulder Of
that set in the Senate OF the United States, you
will have touched man who Is in the habit OF
meeting by night in motley lodges to keep up the
farce Oi protecting freedom which nobody ques-
ti0ns Society in the South has been
CURSED WITH SECRET ORDERS.
Gamblers, horse thieves, river thieves and kid
nappers have each had . hall d9ze9 forms l2g@s q ma.
sonry and the honorable society oi Freemas0ns
has undoubtedly been prostlttuted so much SO that
hear lear tie d arK!-IGe is one Of these war Ma
sons" No society can be in condition OF repose,
secret partnerships, and beneath larger exterior
of commercial family and religious lie there pre-
walls a hidden kind OF loyalty which Is stronger
than the obligations OF man TO man. The enfran-
chised negro has been a peculiar subject OF this
grip government, because 1t touches his lmagna-
ton, and besides there has been necessary con-
tics. The class-meetlng and the church have been
the negros political temples. His preachers made
and organize him. But one with patient mind
can that there will some day be reaction even
against the negros priests and the black man poll
tics will be secular and Us jealous OF priestly n
terference as our own
In conversation with Robert Tyler, son OF ex-
President John Tyler, he remarked as ollOws:-
1.-The negro has neither gratitude nor resent
ment."
When came to think 1t over 1t occurred to me
that he had particular reason for either. Re-
sentiment would give him the fashion OF carrying
six-shooter on his hip and being very touchy on
points OF honor. Gratitude does not belong to pol
itics, for a mans vote should be his most jealous
possession, and the negro's devotion to the radical
party is perfectly natural, and will continue long
as white people entertain designs upon 1t.
THE ERROR OF SOUTHERN SOCIETY
for the past fifty years has been the t0leration OF
violence and too much charity Tor the bloody re-
sentiments OF eacn other. Right at Montgomery,
where Mr.. Tyler edited his paper, is the grave of
Yancey who killed his wife's uncle, was acquitted
for it, and was the victim in his declining years
of feroclous personal attack from Ben
Hill. The leader OF the democratic party
in Alabama, James H. Canton, was shot
dead only year ago in what Is called difficulty,
and the penalty OF pubic life and the comment
throughout the Gulf States has generally been the
hazard OF murder II the negro citizen had his
white nelghbOrs facility OF resentment and were
now revenging his injuries while In state OF
slavery pandemonium would indeed begin. The
old slave system has relinQuiShed nothing without
a struggle, and alter the questions OF emancipa-
tion and reconstruction were settled there was
another contest about wages and contracts, and
still another about the negro's right to litigate.
Fair judges estimate that between 1858 and 1870
800 lives were taken in Alabama alone and still,
without either gratitude or resentment the freed
negro has piled up his monument OF 3,500,000 bales
OF cotton and his passion TO own land, pair Of
mules and suit OF cloth clothes continues to
enormously provoke millions OF people who think
these ideas reprehenslblc and exceedingly impu-
dent.
SAMPLES OF KU KLUx.
went down to the Jail in the city OF Montgomery
with the United States Marshal, Randolph, a native
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