The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-04-04

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men. They are accustomed to work.
and do not mind 1t,
! Question-What would be the proba-
BILE price required?
Answer--Ten or twelve dollars per
| month?
Capt. L. w. BLACK-When I lived In
Illinois, had some knowledge OF and
experience with German laborers. They
were considered the best of servants.
! Their wages were from $3.50 to ". 90,
and their board, per week. They did
all the washing, ironing, cooking, wait
ing ON the table, etc. The men get
about SIS or SIS per month, and they
can be implicitly relied on in fulfilling
| their contracts. ! have seen them tried
fully on this point. l am satisfied one
good German laborer will be worth
| two negroes to our farmers.
| T. III. WILLIAMs-They can't under
| stand our language, when fresh from
| Germany. Would there not be some
Difficult y on this pointf
Capt. BLACK--I think not. I took a
| raw German to Mr.. J. t. Moore's, and
| he had but little difficulty in making
him understand him. Talk to them
like we do to Deaf and Dumb Haley.
w. s. RAINEY--I have b en- wanting
German laborers long time. want
| three women and men. How am l to
get them?
Pro-. r osENTHAL--Send good agent
| to Germany, who Can secure the kind Of
persons wanted. Let the agent be one
| whom the GERMANS will b we perfect
confidence in. A certain prominent
person OF E tst Tenne see sadly deceiv
| ID a colony of German immigrants, and
| since then these immigration agents are
looked upon with suspicion, If they are
| not well recommended. The great
| Northwest appreciates this tact, and
| M 7I~
grams
| Capt. BLACK-Who can we get to go?
| Prof OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES per-
| haps, i'll New York or Nashville. My
| oroCher, now in this room, VIII is AN
officer in the PrussiAn army, and went
through the late Franco Prussian war,
Coulu be induced to go. His probable
| expenses would be $500 or $500.
E. KUHN-The great need of our coun-
| ty Is more, rather than better, labor.
| have no complaint to make against the
negroes. For twenty-five years have
had both negroes and foreigners in my
employ, and my experience is that the
former have worked about as we'll as
the latter. / have but little diff Guilty
in getting good negro house servants.
About the only difference / find in ne
groes before the war and now, is, then
had control of them twenty-four hours
il the day, whereas TOtC l control them
| but twelve out of the twenty-four. No,
gentlemen, we do not need al o
ther class of laborers to supplant
| those we already have: but we do need
more laborers of some kind. I see, how
ever, no necessity of one county going
to the expense of sending an agent TO
Germany after laburers. There is, | be-
lieve, a well organized immigration So
cIety at Nashville, through which we
can secure all tho foreign labor we want.
Let our farmers meet together, and let
| Mr. Rainey put down for four, If he
needs that many, Mr.. Harlan for q doz-
en-, and others what number th@y de-
sire; and then send a competent man
| with the list to Nashville, there to con-
tract with the immigration society for
the number of l4borers wanted.
THOs. III. WILLIAMs-We shall be
sOraly disappointed it we do that, Mr..
Kuhn. made application to Mr.. r. C.
/ grafton society at Nashville, who replied
! that he could furnish no farm laborers,
| could let me have suprintendents, which
! was exactly what did not want.
r c. GORDON-Let us send an agent
/ ourselves. If we rel~ on immigration
! societies, we will get Indifferent lsborers,
| and have to pay high price for them.
! Let us save all the profits the immigra-
ton societies make.
! Capt. BLACK-I think you would find
out, II you Investigated the matter, that
the Nashville society is nothing but a
| ring to sell their own lands.
Capt HAMILToN-I would be glad to
see our waste lands cultivated, ana we
need more lab rers to it. lam friend
iy toward tho negro, and wish to do him
| all the good L can, and in wishing TO
procure more labor, L have no desire to
/ iujure or supplant him. But 1 am OPP
| posed to amalgamation and miscegena-
ton.
THoS. II. WILLIAMs-I move that we
| appoint the second Saturday in April
| as special day for meet.ng, and inYite
| all the farmers in the county to meet
with Us aud discuss this important Ia
Dor question
w. II. TIMMoNs--The regular month
ly meeting would be best.
| ESQ. J. H. WILKES Il am not opposed
to our psOple geGt ng more Iaborers, but
| l think if This CiuO takes any action in
| the M after, as AN association, it will act
little inconsis tent. In the beginning
| of this meeiing we passed some resolu-
lions, denying, emphatically, that the
| Maurv County Farmers Club was got
| ten up in the interest of the land owner.
| and against the interest OF the laoorer
| am quite sure that if we take any steps
| toward securing German laborers, this
! impression which has obtained Among
the colored people to our prejudice will
| be increased Let all those who think
lab Jrers are needed form themselves in
70 a temporary society, and work out
SIDE of the Fdrmers's Club, to secure
their Ohiecr.
Capt. HAMILToN-I am a negro pro-
LectiOnist, on principle, and do rot feel
that we are going against his interests
in securing immigrants to develop the
waste places of odr county. We are not
endeavoring to get laborers to supplant
The negroes. immigration will benefit,
not injure, them. 1t is wi. b the kind
est feelings / say that negroes are not
reliable laborers-I am only recogniZ-
ing a manifest ct. We hav'n't hall
enough labor. Halt o. our county goes
| unculJlvat ed-as it should be Guilt
vated-tOr want OF more laborers.
Capt. G.. w. GIFFoRD--I witnessed an
incident recently which confirms Capt.
Hamilton's statement, in ragard to oul
needing more laborers. At Mrs.
Young's sale / saw splendid land rented
for 81 70 per acre. In answer to my en-
quiry as to the cause of this very low
price, farmers present informed me that
it was because of the uncertainty OF pro-
curing lahnrers.
! Col. d. F. WADE-I am the last man
TO assaIl negro labor unjustly, but
have no hesitation in saying that we
are at sea in lahOr Our labor is very in.
| eIuCloDL anu u I6CtAN0g 0uu IL 40 OOE uus
ty TO remedy it But we will meyer &C
complish anything in the way we are
going on. Every man has his opinion
and thinks he has done all that is neces
sary after he expresses it Two things
| we need, snd must have, to bring about
a reform in the labor question-actiou
! Immediate, energetic action, and cou:
cert of action, on the part of all farmers
IN the county. / very much fear you
would get but few farmers to attend 8
meeting two weeks hence, and That
even those who came would take no &C
tive interest in remedying an evil which
, is known to all. Five years ago, at
! tempted to awaken an interest in this
subject myself, but failed. A meeting
+ was called, and 1 delivered an address
on the importance of securing European
laborers, but the farmers treated the
whole affair with utter Indifference, anC
of course nothing was done. Suppose
we resolve to do something. To secure
any permanently beneficial results, we
,, must send an agent to Germany our
selves. To employ a general agent viii
result, l fear, very much as recruiting
an army did, during our war, through
/. enro ling officers. They were paid sc
. much per capita, and picked up the
, most wpri HESS fellows they could find
ragamuff1ns on the by-ways and in thu
hedges they were the easies
tn pet--WbO made of course the pOOl oS