The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-05-13

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the stereotyped slander concerning il
l. 1t has often been represented t
1 us that the South were longing for tn
old system of negro slavery. So ia
from that being true, they are glad t
have got rid of it. The planters tolt
me that they can cultivate their field
with less expense under the new sys
TEN than the old. "A gentleman wht
had one hundred and twenty five
slaves before the war told me that the
clothing and feeding them, the taking
care of the aged who could not work
and the provision for helpless colored
children was an expense, anxiety, and
exhaustion. VOW the planters have
nothing to do bat pay the wages when
they are due, the families look after
their own invalids and minors. So
they all say without exception that /
could find. If at the ballot-boxes of
the Southern States the question
gro slavery be reinstated? ?" all the
wards and all the cities and all the
counties aud all the States would give
a laundering negative. They fought
to keep it Is years ago, but now there
is universal congratulation at it's over
throw. Thank God that North and
South at last are one on that subject,
and this effort of our Northern politi-
clans to keep the subject of slavery
rolling on is as useless and inapt as to
make the Dorr rebellion of Rhode Is.
land or Aaron Burr's attempt at the
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ernment the test of our fall elections.
The whole subject of American slav.
cry is dead and damned. l inquired
every where: How do the colored
people work under the new plan 2"
The answer was "Well,ver well. We
have no trouble. just after war there
was the disorganizstion that naturally
came of a new order Of things, but
now they work well. They work far
better than Northern laborers that
come here, because our cOlOred peo.
pie can better endure our hot climate
and on a warm summers day at the
incoming they will lie down in the
field to enjoy the sun. My friends,
all-that talk about dragging rivers and
lakes of the South to haul ashore
black people murdered and flung in,
though seriously believed by many
people inthe North, is a falsehOod too
ridiculous to mention in religious as
sembly. The white people of theSouth
feel their dependence on the dark peo-
pie for the cultivation of their lands,
and the dark people feel their depen-
dence on the whito people for wages.
From what have observed here at
the North of the oppression of some
of our female clerks in dry goods
stores, and the struggle of many of
our young men on insufficient salaries,
which they must take or get nothing
at all, give as my opinion that to-
day there is more consideration and
sympathy for employees in some of
the stores on Fulton avenue, Brook
lyn, or Broadway, New York, Wash
ington street, Boston, or Chestnut
street, Philadelphia. All the world
over there are tyrannical employers,
and for their maltreatment of snbor-
dinates, white or black, they are to be
execrated, but the place for us to be-
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Another misrepresentation in re-
gard to the South / cure when I say
that they are not antagonia.ic to the
settienleut u Northern men witnln
their borders. We have been told
that Northerners going there are Ku-
Kluxed, crowded out of social circles,
unrecognized, and in every way made
uncomfortable. But the universal
sentiment of the South as I found it
was, Send down your Northern cap
italists! Send down your Northern
farming machines! Buy plantations
Open stores! Build cotton factories
and rice mills. Come! Come right
awayl Come by tens of thousands and
millions OF course they have no
more liking for Northern fools or
Northern braggarts than we have. A
man that goes South and sets down
his valise at the depot, and goes up to
the nearest plantation to say, by word
or manner, to the planter, 81 haye
come down here to show you ignor>
ant people how to farm. We whipped
you in the war, and we now propose
to whip you in agriculture. 1 am from
Boston, am. That's the Hub. You
look very much like the man that l
shot at at South Mountain. l think it
must have been your brother. l
marched right through here with the
Fourth Regiment of Volunteers. 1
killed and quartered heifer on your
front stoop. What poor, miserable
race of people you Southerners are
Didn't we give it to you? Hal ha!'
Such man as that, to say the least,
will not make a favorable impression
upon the neighborhoOd where he
comes to settle. He will not very
soon get to be deacon in church, and
if he opens store he will not have
many customers, and if he should hap
pen TO get free and rapid ride, on
that part of a fence which is most
easily removed, and should be set
down without much reference to the
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and will not be protestants. Any
moral man who will 90 South and ex.
ercise just ordinary common sense
will be welcomed, made at home. and
coming from Brooklyn will be treat.
ed just as well as if he came from Mo.
bile. 1 might give many illustrations