The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1875-07-01
HOYT g. CO., Proprietors.

HOYT & CO., PrOprleJO1
For the anderson AstsSGgencer.
Hard Times and How to Mend Them-A
Hint for Dr0nes.
PENDLEroN, S. c., June %, 1875.
EDITOR INTELLIGENCER: By request, here
with I send you an article clipped from that
excellent and very popular paper, the Daily
C0nstitutionakst, of Augusta, Ga, under the
head of "Hard Times and How to Mend
Them-A Hint for Drones," which your cor
respondent and others would be pleased to
have re-published in one of your spare col
E umns, where it will be seen and appreciated by
many that do but seldom if ever see and have
the pleasure of reading the Constatut'onaI'st
It is lamentably too true, looking to all clas-
ses of society, that we have in the class OF the
5 rising generation of young men, too m'amy
11rones. In our cities, towns and villages, both
of those who are pretending to make living
by standing behind the counters of merchants
to measure tape and ribbon, and more especial
ly loafers, hangers-on at grog-shops, gambling
9 saloons, &C., &c. All of which would be, both
for themselves and the country at large, better
employed in the cotton field or farm. They
have q good example set them by the two
young men spoken of, in the article presented,
who, instead of scarcely earning decent cloth
ing by clerking, are looking forward to the
income of thirty.6ve bales of cotton as re-
ward for their change of occupation and perse-
yering industry the present season. Go, young
men, and do Hkeoise, or perish. 1--WE are
pleased to know several young men in our own
vicinity have taken the hint, before our pres
ent advice, but not before verbal advice hereto
fore given.) You have no slaves to work for
you now, as your fathers had before you; they
have been unlawfully, upjustly taken from
us IS would be answered by the whole creation OF
honest and honorable men, and by the Great
God himself; and without compensation, but
to the reverse additional burthens. Therefore,
put your own hands to the plow, persevere and
look not behind, and you will prosper in spite
of all opposition and oppression. If you are
able to hire our very unreliable class of labor
ers-the freedmen that are left among us-do
so, provided you think you can pro6tably use
them, but nine cases out of ten you will be
disappointed The following is the article re-
ferred to: 5.
We read that young man, recently clerk
in New Orleans, is now making crop OF cot
ton, largely by his own individual exertions,
in the Parish of Concordia, La. He has q
partner, also an ex-clerk presumably, and they
;ng to friend in the Crescent City, this indus
trious youth says ''I wish had a lot of corner
loafers up here for week or so. ] think
could employ them very proftably for about
ten hours daily cutting out cotton" His dress
at present, says the New Orleans Times, con-
sists of a black felt hat, hickory shirt, jeans
pants, and yellow russets. Mounted on his
bay mule, vending his way to the field, thus
appareled, he thinks his old friends would not
be able to recognize him.
When we consider how many thousands of
robust young men are this day idlers; and
when there is so much land to be had for a
mere song or the asking, the mind turns with
admiration to the intrepid Louisiana youth
and with something like disgust to the drones
in the hive It may be that, at the first glance,
the friends of the ex-clerk might not recognize
him in his working apparel; but when the
identification came. how must the noble-mln-
ded among men and women admire the coarse
garments of the true larborer more than the
purple and fine linen of the idler. Last year,
we gave some signal examples of what white
boys, some of them at school during five days
of the week, could do for themselves in the
way of planting. We should be pleased to
hear, this season, of other experiments OF that
character, for the purpose of giving public
honor to the deserving, and, if possible, to
shame those who are making no effort to help
!. themselves or anybody else. The idler, unless
he has money of his own or is encouraged IN
sloth by his indulgent parents, must prey upon
society, and thus become deadly and mortal
nuisance to those who live laborious lives. In
The city and country, the chances are that men
> who do nothing creditable in the way of self
sustenance inevitably fall into bad habits, and
are curse to themselves and everybody else.
The burden Of the person who strives for
support is made all the more grievous by the
multiplicity of individuals who are known as
loafers in the city, and have been described,
in country villages as amusing themselves by
<'spitting tobacco juice at mark" and bask-
ing like flies on the counters and steps of gro
Gerry stores, which are too often dramshops,
purveying quality of liquor that would con-
sumo the bowels of a brazen image, and really
does provoke fatal alterations. 1t would be
grand thing for the South if her non producing
adlers could get or be forced into useful employ
ment. Many young gentlemen, tenderly reared
and highly cultivated, have demonstrated the
practicability of becoming independent by
manual labor.
How many are there, devoid of mental cul-
ture. but full of Drawn and muscle, now lead
ing an inglorious and sluggish existence in the
State of Georgia? How many are there too
proud to work or too lazy to find something to
do, whe are yet not too proud to consume the
,scant substance of their toiling parents, and
not too lazy to tramp ten miles to fish-fry or
d barbecue?
We would be clad indeed to have our friends