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

ployment OF German labor on big farm,
and so gar he Is more than satiag5i. de
has ue other kind Of laispr, on esp place..
ibid they lebltisatss shd sfap caas fcghiss
ssocks &EH do ey6rything psually Sper-i
Enrm19 BY the neGlo labor "a the xoglisry. ]
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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 bs cut off close
TO the ground, and every particle Of tim
ber saved for rails or tirewood, even to
the very chips arc piled and hauled to
the house fof fuel. If a pest or stick of
timber is wanted from the woods, not
veetige Of the tree is left to rot, but the
tree laps are all cut and piled, ready to
be hauled home. Tho next step after
TIE land Is cleared and put il 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.
II the clearing of lands. altogether pine,
the b.usb is not burned but hauled to
the CALLED spots and gullics 70 stop wash
es, &c. Mr. Crayton hires the entire
available labor, men, women and chill
dren, and pays from five 20 ten dollars
per month a..d rations. He allows his
laborers occasional holidays, such as they
were used to in "fader land" and enters
into their enjoyment with considerable
zeat. For q 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
foreignP 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 prc-ea 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
tho destiny Of The negro race will be III
their own hands. Nan 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--dil-
gence, regularity and eficisncy-which
stamp superiority wherever practiced.
We regard the present as an important
era in tho progress of the negro race in
the South. They have everything eTeTy thing TO en-
courage them, nothing hnt spirit of
indoience, common to us all, to hinder
them. The South 10 to-day unit politi-
cally-toloFed 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 Soath, TO wit: the stnnpathies
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. ~ 7@"'ir -e,
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