The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-03-29


and so far he is more than satisfied. He
has no other kind Of labor on the place,
and they cultivate the land; care forhis
stock land do everything usually sper-
formed by the negro labor of the eIountry.
The men ditchSclear land, preparssand
cultivate crops; the. women cook, wash,
iron, milk and make regular hands dur
ing the crop season, at such labor as is
best adapted to them. In every depart
ment of labor regularity, efficiency, in
dustry and neatness characterize the
German labor. If the land is to be
cleared everything is to be cut off close
to the ground, and every particle of tim
Der saved for rails or frewood, even to
the very, chips are piled and hauled to
the house for fuel. If post or stick of
timber is wanted from the woods, not a
yestige of the tree is left to rot, but the
tree laps are all cut and piled, ready to
be hauled home. The next step after
the land is cleared and put in cultivation
is to take up all the stumps SO there shall
be no distractions to the cultivation or
harvesting of crops. The lands are
thoroughly ditched, upland and bottom.
In the clearing of lands, altogether pine,
the brush is not burned but hauled to
the CALLED spots and gullies to stop wash
es, &c. Mr.. Crayton hires the entire
available labor, men, women and chill
dren, and pays from FIVE to ten dollars
per month and rations. He allows his
laborers occasional holidays, such as they
were used to in "fader land" and enters
into their enjoyment with considerable
zest. For a series of years Mr.. Crayton
has had no difficulty in controlling and
directing said labor, and under their
skilful management he is gradually but
surely bringing his farm up to high
state of improvement. Does it follow
that everybody should try to supplant
native white labor or negro labor with
foreign? By no manner of means
Other things being equal the natural
born labor, white or colored, will be pre-
ferred in the South. But the great COM
petitive strife among the different kinds
of labor for superiority has already COM
menced among us; and that class Of labor
which ultimately proves the most reliable,
the most faithful and the most productive,
will be the most sought after, be it native
born or of foreign importation. So far
as the negro is concerned, politics has
played out. Both parties North are tired
and disgusted with the everlasting cry of
social equality, civil rights, &c. Before
the law all classes of our citizens stand
on the same platform. The rights of all
are equally protected. Henceforward
the destiny of the negro race will be i'll
I their own hands. Man is said to be the
architect of his own fortune. This is
true of races as of individuals. In every
department of labor, superiority will be
the leading element Of success. not race
or color. The negro, along with all other
races, can only cammand success by the
practice of those yeoman virtues-dili-
gence, regularity and efhciency-which
stamp superiority wherever practiced.
We regard the present as an important
era in the progress of the negro race in
the South. They have everything to en-
courage them, nothing but spirit of
Incidence, common to us all, to hinder
them. The South is to-day unit politi-
-colored men and white men voting
and acting together for the good of our
common country. In this competitive
strife for labor superiority, they certainly
have one advantage over every other
race in the South, to wit: the 'synpathies
of the Southern shareholders almost to a
man. But this sympathy will do them
no real good unless they prove them
selves deserving of it. '''i A'i''i''-..3 ."'
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