The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-12-10


pay for the bread and meat you had 10
buy to make your crop and sustain Jour
family and laborers. This makes cur
future unpleasant to contemplate. Yet
il will always be SC until we
DITERsIFY OUR PRODUCTIONS
at present the only crop talked of and
looked too for sustenance.
1.-THE
of its neighborhood can prevent half the
usual Indebtedness incurred, it will be a
lasting benefit. rejoice sir; at the very
idea Of the wealth, moral worth and intel
ligence of the country being banded to-
gether in common brotherhood for good
look forward with feelings of no ordina-
ry character for the most salutary and
beneficial influence to be exercised and
established by the Grange movement
throughout the South. There are evils
existing thatnothing short Of such combi-
nations can remedy. 1t should be every
mans aim to do all the good in his power
to increase the happiness of his fellow
man, and no matter how circumscrIbed
his sphere may be, accomplish something.
| can see no objection by any one to the
declaration of purposes, enunciated by
the National Grange in counsel last
spring. l not only hope, but believe We
shall shortly from their influence, have
comfortable churches and academies
springing into existence as if by magic, in
every neighborhood in which Grange
exists. Nothing would gladden. my heart
more than to see them establishing first
class schools throughout the whole South
in place Of the present abdominal system
Of free schools. In these schools in three
years time. your sons and daughters
would be grounded, not only in the
branches of useful and polished educa-
ton, but in the sciences. With such
schools the country at moderate expense
would soon be filed with thoroughly
educated young men and young ladies.
Mr. President, our people and the South
generally have clamored for the importa-
ton of
WHITE LABORERs.
The very idea is impracticable, and were
it otherwise its wisdom might be question
ed. Foreigners who come to this conti-
nent seek lines of latitude parallel with
their old homes. The French and Span
ish are content in Louisiana, whilst the
Swill, German and Of other nationalities
north, seek homes in the far West to raise
wheat and potatoes this being done they
are content. Were we to give them half
our possessions and years support they
would not abide with US. Our summers
are too warm and too long. They seek
the government domain, which on the
destruction of the Indians, will be added
to largely, and all the redundant popula-
ito of the old world will not fillita century
hence. But sir, if brought here and en-
ployed as field laborcr, you increase
the quantity of cotton, which is already
ahead of consumption and if you dimin-
ish black labor by increasing that of white, |
you add to the curse now affecting the |
country, of creating more useless consum-
ers If You could assign the negro home |
to himself as suggested in 1874 by f. J. |
Walker, both races might be benefited |
but the number is too great, and not be- |
ing here of his own volition your human
ity would revolt at general substitution;
for it would amount to perfect starvation
The negro is Injured to the hot suns of
summer and the heavy dews of autumn,
and If we continue to raise cotton, rice.
tobacco and sugar, he is the best and
most reliable laborer we can employ,
md vastly superior to any we can import
we're we prepared to manufacture every
pound of raw material into yarns and
abrics, even then / believe there is no
necessity for the importation Of other labor.
We forget that improved implements
dispense with a large portion of labor. and
We forget that the natural increase of
10Th races supply annually quite a num-
)er. When our labor is properly diversi-
led, improvement of our lands by rest or
ertiizing will begin. Since the war all
have escaped our attention,
md the result Is runOus. [ admit sir,
he negro is Objectionable on account of ;
lis utilization with the adventurous carpet
Jaeger, who comes among US to create fat {
fices and then occupy them. l believe, '
ir, if every white man employing them {
7ould himself register and carry with him ]
ne FRI edman to vOte-exercising in a
lAIA htA1 MS lliAAuChSS1 VIC SOu1u ChITN |
ur elections The negro has been seri-
usly injured by contact with carpet-bag-
ers. His prejudices incident to his con-
ition when IA slave have been reused,
nd he has been led to believe in politics
e his no friends among his Gown white !
eople with whom he was raised. When :
lade citizen we should have instructed :
i'm in the fact that his interest was iden- !
fed with ours; that he should vote with :
$ and frame laws for the government of :
9th races. A Legislature rightly con- t
ituted, qualified suffrage would soon :,
,llow, with laws enacted, guaranteeing :,
lie observance of contracts, impartially :.
perating on both black and white Then :
lr labor system would loose its obiec- :
enable feature and become preferable to :.
ny other.
CONCLUSION.
MIR PREsIDENT.-If all the vast +,
-ogeny of industry, that bless and fracti- Fl
the earth with the richness of labor 4
I'd power, we in conclusion pause to !,