The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-07-03

ted those States and ruined all for
tunes. The losses amounted to
billions, and there was mourning in
every household. At the same
time that the 100000 whites were
in this State the 100000 blacks,
suddenly free, were left with scant
starvation, disease and crime, and
with no means of support but their
own hands. Here, then, is tire
place to test the innumerable
charges made in every way and on
all occasions that the colored man
in the South is denied legal and
political rights, and deprived of the
Just rewards of his labor, and kept
in danger of his lie. These parti-
san statesmen can best be tried by
the test of the work done. Since
1869 cattle and swine have inereas-
ed 100000 head. For eight years
before 1861, 27,142,2S5 bales of
cotton were produced, In the last
eight years the product has been
80, ,226, ,5S1. In 1871 there were
seven and a half million acres in
cotton. In 1873 there were more
than twelve million acres. More
than $2OO,00O,0O0 annual product
ofSouthern labor enter into the per-
chase of merchandise and manufac-
lures in the Eastern and Middle
States. Southern railroads have
increased in earnings; Southern ci-
ties and towns in growth, while ali
the Southern industries, have large.
ly and materially improved. Mr..
Whitthorne shows that while the
Northern farm laborer is paid at
the rate of 81 ger capita of popula-
tion, the Southern farm laborer is
paid at the rate of more than $40.
Nine million Southern people pay
$97, 7,907,I ,I74 for labor, while fifteen
million Northern and Western peo-
pie pay only$I14, ,S02, ,364 Looking
to the facts, he continues, "can it
be said that the laborer of the
South is not as well paid as the
same class in other sections of our
country? Can it be urged that the
labor of the South has been so dis
turbed that its stalwart men have
been so interfered with as to COM
pei one-third of them to abandon
home and birth place, and that so
outrageous is the oppression and
the danger that they should stand
not upon the order of their going,
but flee without thought of the
present or provision for the future.
1t is believed by many that, upon a
thorough examination of the facts
connected with this exodus move
ment, 1t will be shown to have its
origin in speculation in Kansas
railroad lands, to which a portion
of the freedman's money, through
the Freedman's Bank, was first
and that the parties who
aided in the robbery of that institu-
tion conceived that there were mil
lions in tempting it's depositors
and their race to become occupants
of the lands upon which they held
mortgage bonds.
l feel sure that when all the truth
is known that it will be seen that
both races have suffered from the
madness and craft of politicians,
and that it can be shown that the
people of the South have Chris
tian civilization, that whilst it en-
riches mankind is just and gener-
Gus to all within its influence
That it only asks to be judged in
that charity which speaks in love
and asks only the observance of
that decree: That with whatso-
ever judgment We would be judged,
Judge ye.' If' says Mr.. Whit
thorne, ''the investigation can be
had in this spirit, let us have it by
ali means, but, if 1T is to be used
for sectional purposes o~Ud to make
the South once more the playtmns
of partisan hate, it should not be
proceeded with. Both races have
suffered too much in the past by
this sort of thing to want more of