The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-03-25

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THE Foreign Laborer---lhe " - ~ '~'
Black Man.
We alluded yesterday to the eons's'sA WV
-. 81 english and Scotch who hao p"i
aa ,.nd, and settled In the region about
1" The Farmville Journal, IN re.
Letting the proceedings Of the "Nationa
T;r-;n;a Settlement Association whose
,,oc.inz was recently held in that FOWL
makes tho following interesting statement on
the subject: u,;s, e,e.
"To show the extent Of the Eng'lsa ere,
mont in this meeting there were Hlem n.,.
from london, from Cornwall, Kent, sur as
Essnx suffolk. Norfolk, Yorkshire, i" H.
torsh;re Staffordshire, WarwicSsn'te, Gu G
forisshire Deyonhire, Worcestershire, nvu
ccster,hire. Somersetshire, ana pu ',naaS and
sh;re. A bountiful dinner was s ii,tsJ with
the inner man was abundah.l'
all the 1e,icacies of the season. ,,,r, Irdoo
"The chair was occupied D! tile .lon "~us
FIN, Watkins, president oil tne oo sa,,o,, ;no.
Rank. who..yas surrounded .. INC ,u tho
English settlers: J. a. n. -: An'h Chs,, Ja.
Thomas lbTcNy Gtiis"Ns :,
Res. nv Up Peters from Cheltersham), Alfred
Hns6 from HAMPSHIRE, W. Farmer Qrom
S saD+n T. Prince, John Houston Qrom
CnrnwalN. Edgar Allan Commonwealth
ATTORNEY. from Birmingham clarke
1from Worcestershire, J. L. Broad troin
Surry\ J. Evans from Yorkshire), Captain
John Mexican (trom Lancastershire), Johh
Wb;tchurch from Cherswick near London)'
!. Lestcreeon, &C.; also Thomas Armstrong
from Wichtenshire) and other Scotch SCI,
tler,. Fhe northern settlers present lncluded
Mr.. Addle,nan from Pennsylvania, ). Bliss
from New York;, A. r. Hurd trom New
fork. Richell (from Pennsylvann1 Eten'
wiler, and many Others"
We remarked OH Saturday that the coming
into this State of these intelligent foreigners
fwho are men of means) would very much
smooth the way for the introduction of Eng
lisb and Scotch laborers. They understand
what that kind of laborer wants and how to
make him contented. Our farmers, who
have been tilliug their lands with slave labor,
do not understand the foreign white farm
hand, and do not know how to feed or to
lodge him. The white man by nature essen
tially differs from the negro. The manner OF
feeding and lodging the latter was governed
almost entirely by his own tastes and habits
tastes and habits ingrained in his nature and
never TO be eradicatcd. However tidy and
orderly his apartments might be made, they
would soon be reformed into barbaric confti-
sion and slovenliness. The tastes Of the ne
gro, and the indifference he always manifests
towards system and dccorum, govern the
manner of their feeding and the kind Of food
they cat.
Both in the lodging and eating the white
laborer differs so widely from the negro that
totally different order Of life will have to
be established for him. He wants his bed,
and he wants his table, and must have some
form in the different acts Of lodging and
eating. At home the English laborer is used
to his ale. 1t is as regular as the day, and
were the farmers to cut that off rebellion
would follow. Every farm has its large vat
Of good ale, and all hands at dinner have the
enjoyment of the overfowing taDkard. 1t
costs but little, and it engenders great deal
of good humor and contentment about the
premises. While the Englishman his his ale,
the Frenchman has his pure wine, and the Ger
man his wine or lager. All of the foreign labor
ers are used to some beverage, which has its
pungent taste and its slightly stimulating III
fluence. 1t regarded by them rs indispensl
BILE.
Then, the English and Scotch laborers do
not understand our mode of tillage, and our
farmers will find it far better under our great
social revolution to adopt theirs. We cannot
now that slavery is abolished, pursue the en-
pensive and wasteful system of slavery, the
deficits in which were met by the increase of
slave property. Wcmust gradually abandon
it by diminishing our notwithstanding the
recruiting system of green manures--re-
ducing the number of cattle, horses, &C.,
and keeping them well-by soling the cattle
large part Of the time, and thus saving the
maIiures. With negro labor the farmer cam
not introduce this system as rapidly as he
could with the white. The former is impro-
vident, unsystematic, and wasteful; the lat
ter, educated, orderly, obseryant, and provi-
dent. Let us do what we may with the
negro, and introduce the white man as rapid
ly Us we can with regard to the interests of
all, not forgetting the negro, for it would not
do to leave him unemployed as long as he
will work. If unemployed, his neighbors
will have to support him.
We repeat that in the very complex and
important process Of the introduction OF
white labor into Virginia, it is well that we
can get SO many intelligent foreigners
amongst us. They will greatly facilitate the
operation. Virginia Is grand State for the
industry and enterprise of the white man,
while more southern ATTITUDES are the ma
tural localities Of the negro. There he will
flourish best, and there indulge the instincts
which are natural to him and which can
never be eradicated. To the South he will
inevitably tend. The work of displacement
and substitution must be slow and trying to
the State; but 1t viii surely be accomplished.
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The SOUTH CAROLINA NEGRO CoNGREssMEs.
The negro De LARGE, whose election is con-
tested by ex-Congressman Bowen, has not
been in bis seat during the present session of
Congress. The Committee on Elections has
reported in favor Of Bowen. DE LARGE
took his seat in Congress on the 4th Of March