Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-06-05

TUESDAY, JUNE S, 1879.
depend too much upon negro labor. It
is perhaps tho best labor for cotton drops,
and for that very reason is hurtful to the
South.
| TOO MUCH COTTON.
Too much cotton has been and is the
curso Of the South. We want popula-
tion and labor that can cultivate something
else, diversity our industries; somebody
who will grow at the same time fruit or
vegetables, Or hops, or raise live animals, or
erect factories and neat cottages and fenoes.
This negro labor, as We have it, cannot aud
will not do. agree with certain leading
Senator who said that cheap labor is not
goud for any country. You can hire a
given amount of muscle in the South as
ohoaply as in almost any part of the world,
but We want muscle that has intelligence
enough to direct itself, skilled ahd educated
muscle. Hence say this exodus will
benefit the South by relieving it of this
cheap, inferior labor and replacing it with
better. 1t will benefit the negro because
he will command better wages where labor
is scarcer, and he will be driven out of his
plodding habits by tho more aotivo labor Of
the white man, Or starvc. His condition
will be altogether improved by removal
from the vicious influences of his own race
when his own race predominates. Tho
South may suffer temporary Inconvenience,
but in tho end it will be great blessing,
and, for the reasons assigned, I should
encourage tho negroes to go rather than
dlssuade them.
CAUSES OF COMPLAINT.
| Correspondent in your Judgment
are the real and just causes Of complaint
which the negroes have in tho Southern
States7
Senator Butler-The worst enemies to
the negro at the South are not the land
oHtets, but certain class of the shop
keepers (of course do not include in this
category many country merchants, who aro
vety honorable, fair dealing men), who sell
to the negro bad whiskey and tobacco and
oheap goods at the most oxorbitont rates,
and at the end of the agricultural season
their entire years earnings are gone to
these men. Eight out of ten Of the ne
groec will pay any price for goods if they
eau buy them on credit The shop keeper
generally estimates what each negro will
make and has his account shaped to absorb
It, These arc evils which time and tho
negro only can correct, but Radical emis-
saries settle upon individual instances of
unfair dealing to play upon the credulity
of the negroes and mako them believe that
1t 10 the landlord who hos wronged them
coLoNI7INd TIE NEGROES.
Correspondent What do you think of
tho proposition that has been made to colo
| ni*e the negroes upon some of the govern
ment lands in tho Territories?
Senator Butler-l scarcely think it is
wise, and yet would be quite willing to
sec tho experiment tried. If reservations
could be set aside in the Territories of Ari-
zono or New Mexico, where the negroes
could gradually settle and acquire fec
simple title to the land, perhaps they might
do VOL, but should not have much confi-
deuoe in its SUCCESS.
Correspondent What would bo your
suggestion, tbon, of the course best oalcu
lated 20 benefit tho blacks7
Senator Buter-It would be much
! better for tho negro if the race could
DO etadually distributed throughout the
North, where he would havo tho fostering
cate aod protection and guidance of his
Republican friehds Of that section and the
sustaining power and Influence of tho moro
thrifty, Intelligent and energetic Caucasian.
Such disposition Of them would, think,
settle tho much vexed race question in this
country.
Corrcspondent--Do you believe the
negro could stand the climate of the North7
Senator Butler--Most assuredly. The
negroes stand the Northoth climate quito
as we'll as does the white man of the South,
! and on the other hand tho Northern white
man stands the Southern climate as we'll as
the negro perhaps in the miusmatc regions,
and can do as much labor under the South
ern sun as negro cab, 1t 10 not os hot ia
tho South as it is Kansas OF Minnesota.
The heated term is longer but not SO intense
OF fatal as further North, and with proper
hygienic and sanitary PRECAUTIONS we do
not have as much sickness as at the North.
Upon the whole q gradual interchange and
exchange Of populations between the SEQ.
tions would exercise sautary and bonef-.
cial influence upon tho country.
The Cause Of Consumption.
DR.. Roliu II. Gregg, of Buffalo, N. Y,