The daily gazette., 1874-09-09

master ihr,Aisll the PARENTS or dlreetly.
h6N lliey are suffered to grow ub With
out restraint. The father cannot govern
them, for he is himself but q child. -
Hence they are growing up in idlehesa
and shiftlessncss.
Like all the savage races who have
been brought into sudden contact with
civilization, the black merely intimate
the manners and copy and transcend
the vices of the superiorrac The OIL
der negroes, who bave been trained to
labor, perform about three-quarters as
much work asthey formerly did. The
women, OF general thing, have aban-
doned field labor. The young men are
kept about the premises to idle and "to
wait upon the ladies' The disposition
is strong with the race TO abandon the
agricultural regions and congregate in
the outskirts of the town and villages
Among the generation of blacks who
have just reached manhood and woman
hood labor is esteemed humiliation -
They will not engage in service unless
compelled by urgent necessity, and
when employed are neglectful and re-
sentful to degree.
The result OF the attempt to educate
the negroes is very unfavorablc The en-
thusiasm for learning which they dis
played after the close of the war has sur
prisingly diminished. Most of the per.
sonswho can beinducedto attend school
remain but a few mouths in the year.
After smattering of reading, writing,
and arithmetic they regard themselves
as educated and resign the irksome tasks
Of study.
Upon the vital question of "Will the
negroes work p DIR. Winkler responds
substantially in the negative. They will
do no more than will obtain for them
selves bare subsistence, and not then
if they can obtain it otherwise. Where
the negroes are populous land values have
shrunk as much as TO per cent. Where
there are few OF no blacks the
people are enjoying higher prosperity
than ever, not otwithstanding the burdens
of taxation.
DIR. Winkler declares that the whites
are observing with satisfaction the drift
ing of the negroes towards the Southwest
The amount of emigration is so large as
to have changed the political complexion
OF Alabama within two years, and added
over one hundred thousand to the popu-
lation of 1exas since 1870. The momen-
tum Is so great that the point of the ad-
vancing column has already struck the
Mexican frontier. Herein does the writ
er find the solution of the negro problem.
he would encourage the exodus. The
races are separating in the South The
tendency of each color is to segregate to
itself. What the result will be no pro-
phet need declare. The whites are the
stronger race, and the blacks will have to
go to the wall Emigration will save
them, relieve the whites, and restore the
country, which will be opened to q bene-
ticent tide of American and European i'm.
migration. A mighty gathering process
sion of blacks is moving onward towards
Mexico. 'There they may rest amid
such conditions of climate, soil, and com. .
pany as suit their constitution their hab-
its, and their Instincts
DIR. Winkler discusses the Civil Rights
bill and the race differences, which will
ever prevent the Southern whites and
blacks from becoming homogeneous peo :
pie. but our space will not permit us to
follow him further. The great point that
he makes is that tho movement of the
blacks to the extreme Southwest should
be encouraged by the Government and
the people; that even territorial reser-
vation, like that set apart to. the In
dians, might be assigned to them.