New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-02-24

for the wood ~ sold to passing steamboats,
on the spot where it is cut.
Tho ownership of homestead. oven though u
consist only Of cabin and garden patch. converts
the negro at once INTO good citizen. lilo ceases 10
I've shiftless drifting irresponsible creature, the
prey of demagogues. white and black, aud becomes
friend of low taxes and good government lie
takes an active interest parish affairs. acquires
influence with his own race, aud is consulted by
the whites in relation TO the schemes and questions
OF local government. The future prosperity OF the
South depends greatly the increase of this class
of coored landowners Negro suffrage will no
longer be an evil when considerable proportion OF
the black voters paw taxes and are thus pecunsriiy
interested In the honest and economical administra-
ton of public affairs. Progressive men of the South
understand this. and endeavor to create pubho
opinion favorable to the sale OF lana IN
small parcels, but the old landed aristocracy,
or what is left of 1t, still cherishes fool
ish dreams of reducing the blacks by
State laws to the condition Of serfs Fortunately
the old fossils and fools will not bold out much
longer. Another decade will retire them from the
stage and bring to the front generation more
capable of graphing with the grave problem OF the
relations of two races occupying the same
soil and entitled to Equal privileges. An
intelligent sclf.reliant element of black free
the tbrlftless majority which works for hire
and standing a. middle class between it
and the whites, would furnish the needed balance
wheel i'm the Southern social and industrial
machine. The example of few prosper
GUS sensible Independent black men IN
each community would gradually uproot such no.
tons heard expressed in New-Orleans the DINER
day by q member of the Legislature who Is accused
of having aided in the bulldozing of one of the
parishes up the river. lie said: " When whites
and blacks are brought IN contact there viii never
lie any permanent order or prosperity until tho
white race Is on top. Look at India, the BRUSH
colonies in Africa and the West Indies. The white
man FOUGHT Horcely and relentlessly until he got
the mastery, and then he protected the inferior
race and gave 1t good government. That's the way
the problem must work out III our Southern States
It's no use Struggling against nature. Nature
made the white man superior, and nowhere III the
world did he ever consent to be ruled by another
race" This is the logic of nInetenths OF Southern
white men. # it has neither law nor justice to
sustain il, history can certainly be brought to hs
support. h " D.
TALK WITH EN- SENATOR WILLARD WARNER.
IRON AND IEoN-uAKERS ~ THE sOUIH-THE NEXT
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR THE PRESIDENCY
OPPOSITION 10 rILDLN N THE soUTH-rHUE-
~,
MANS MARCH TO TIE sEA-Hls ESTIMATE OF
GENERAL MPHERsON AND GEIEF AT HIS DEATH
-RrPUBIICAN CHANCES or VICTORY II 1850.
Few men are IN a better position to study South
ern politics than the Hon. Willard Warner. lie
was on General Shermans staff from Ohio during
all the campaigns, and mt the close of
the war settled IN Alabama, and was
elected tie first Senator under reconstruction.
Mr.. Warner has now lived fifteen years in Alabama
and Georgia For the past six years he has resided
on the line between Georgia and Alabama at lecnm-
Sch below Rome. Georgia, where he has S225,OO
of Northern and other capital invested III an iron
furnace. His social position IS excellent and his
manners are conclliatory in 1872 he supported
Greeley. Mr. Warner was in New-lork recently
and a representative of The TRIBUNE had the fol-
lowing conversation with him:
"Can Won make iron more cheaply In the south
than In the North Y7-"Usualy | have nearly 5000
acres of land which is a mass OF hematite Orc We
make pig iron exclusively, and ship it all over the
country In the Summer get low rates on freight
by rail when the cotton doe, not clog the roads; at
this time of the year they are n little higher. Ii
costs us about 81 per ton 10 ship TO New-l"rk via
Norfolk"
"Have The iroumahers III the South been sener-
ally success fulY'-"No, the stoppaGe OF all con-
structions in the country since 1873 brought down
the price OF non in the North to such figure that
we lost our advantage temporarily. Out of thirteen
furnaces IN orr region of country only four are IN
blast. We are now at work. ana Just on the line
we think Of better times. We feel more cheerful
certainly.
"Did General sherman come 10 see yOu on his
recent visit to Georgia r" Yes. ho camo and
brought his family and stayed at my house. Sher-
man was very well received on all sides. lie was sur
prised at the immense amount Of orc We have lie
asked me seriously if there WAS enough ore to make
IL permanent thing, and took him out riding ana
showed him "a mountain with It's face ldld pare,
looking like granite. Said General, tina Is all ore
why don't you get at it, then saif the General
We'll. como a little further l then showed
him n place where were working al
two benches. tho lower about fifteen feet high
and the upper twice as high. Sad !, General that
is all ore right through the mountain; there is one
Of your soldiers up there at the upper bench; ana
called TO the man, Brown, here is your old chief
tain How are you, General Z cried Brown.
Hello, Brown, said Sherman. this is better than
fighting. aunt itP Yes said Brown But if we
hadn't fought, you wouldn't have been here,
Brown He exclaimed finally: Warner, | have
seen enough ore for to-day told the General that
from the top of the furnace, nearly as far az could
be SEEN there was rich everywhere III the pros
pcct enough for 200 years"
FEATURES or SOUTHERN LIFE.
"How docs living down there compare with
living in Ohiof'-"Wol" replied Nr. Warner" we
are of cours, isolated. take the Northern news
papers only, and attend strictly to business. We
have some compensation in the climate think 1t
is the best climate on this continent. Ny house
Is mon the eide of mountain 1000 feet above tho
level of the sea- and behind II are 800 feet more OF
mountain The house faces north as we have
70 look out for air and guard against the
summer rather than the Winter. 1t IS
lovely Winter climate la the six years have been
al Tccunseh. there has been no death from any or
dInary disease among the adults We had one man
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