The Morning herald., 1875-09-04
7 THE HERALD.
WILMINGTON, SEPTEMBER 4, 1875.
ANOTHER sYsTEN OF LABOR.

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x ANOTHER sYsTEN Of LADoR.
"A party Of twenty-five gentlemen, from
,e neighborhood Of Fredericksburg, Vir
in;a, headed by General Fitzhugh Lee
re in New York endeavoring, by CON
renee with the leading men there, to de
,ise means, by which desirable tide o.
emigration can be induced to the common.
wealth which they hail from. These gen.
tlemen are honest in their confessions and
state that they need the North to come
among them and fraternize in the spirit Of
improving the lands that were laid waste
by the war and identify themselves with
the industries of that country. Those peo-
pie are wanted who have buried the war
and its animosities as a. bitter lesson of the
past, not to be dug up again and flung in
tie face OF the South as condemning rea-
son for hate. Such action upon the part
Of the Southern gentlemen now in New
York endeavoring to effect consumation
of these desirable ends is truly commenda-
BILE. 1t evinces revival from the lethargy
which followed the ending Of the war and
presages greater thrift and industry among
the people of that section pertaining to all
matters Of agriculture. The people of the
South have had many disadvantages to
labor under since the ending of the war.
The dawn of peace found them with large
tracts Of land upon their hands, and un-
available as source of revenue by cultiva-
ton, simply because the fortunes of the
war had left them without the means. All
their money had been invested in Confed-
crate bonds and so locked up in the inter-
ests Of that government that they were
mere paupers.
Negro labor was all that they had been ac-
customed to, and with the visitation of free
dom by the subjugation ofthe Southern arms
this class Of labor became as worthless and
trifing as though it had never received
any dicipline in the school Of farm work.
They crowded to the cities, assumed inde-
pendence and refused entirely to labor
The realization of this dream came so sud-
denly to the black man, that he at once
gave himself up to idleness and refused to
work.
That system of colored labor which ex-
listed in the South previous to the war has
become extinct. The colored man in
majority Of cases has become worthless
and shittless, and the Southern
man being unaccumtomed to labor
the situation of the people of that country
can be very readily appreciated. With
the Introduction of healthy tide of emf
grafton into the South, that which repre-
sents the bone and sinew of industry, new
era would be witnessed in the agricultural
and all other Interests 1t would again be
restored to its high status of wealth. Its
cotton plantations, the sources of profit
that they were previous to the war, and It's
railroads and rivers, the tributary streams
to the ocean of wealth that the South could
be made. This tide of emigration would
inaugurate in the South bold, ,indepen-
dent system Of white labor that would
make the blacks dependent upon the whites
instead of the whites being dependent upon
the blacks. 1t would furnish school of
agriculture, in which labor could be trained
and would be the means Of placing labor
and laboring classes at higher estimate
among the people Of the South than it has
occupied for years. 1t would foretell more
OF work and less of aristocratic pretensions,
which is the thought and action that must
form the solid foundations of all govern
ments. If this is accomplished, then the
South will surely be the home of profitable
industries, induced by such system OF
labor as that which the Southern gentle
men now in New York are trying to intro
duce there. General Lee said to reporter:
We in our section need the North; we
want them to come TO Virginia and see that
we are not bnshwhackers; that we have
schools and colleges and good Institutions"
Such is the sentiment that prevails through.
out the whole South, and it smacks of
better thrift to that country w.len they can
have that system of labor they 20 much de-
sire and need.
He has at last made up his mind to re-
sign. We mean Secretary Delano. This
holy member Of the Episcopal Church,
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