Daily Republican., 1882-06-12
LETTER FROM TIE SOUTH,
Crops, Politics, kc.-The Colered
People Opposed 70 Labor saving
Machinery.

Machinery.
For the REPUBLICAN.
In the South this year the acreage O
the cerials is greater than ever before
the fields are already white to the har,
vest and the laborers are not few.
The colored people are quarrelling. al
the commencement to introduce labor
saying machinery into the har, est field
Hitherto cotton has 80 mon0polized the
ground that other things have been
nearly excluded but this year large
and fair crop of oass has been raised
and harvested and wheat has received
more than ordinary attention. Corn il
coming on, but is not as advanced as
usual. Cotton Is cut down to about 81
per cent. of the usual acreage and Is
from ten to fourteen days late, 1t having
been too wet and cold until the first of
June for 80 sensitive q plant.
We have never known the South be-.
fore to make such cOmmeudable effort
to generalize her productions of the
field. From what have said above it
cannot be inferred that the fields have
been robbed of cotton for other crops,
as that is only thirteen per cent. less
than the average, while all the cerials
are more than double their usual
amount. am sorry to see the agita-
tion through several of the Southern
States of the abolition of the fence law.
Such legislation is in the direction
of shiftlessness and laziness of which
they have too much. Virginia has the
fenceless laws which have been fol-
lowed by deserted houses and tene-
ments. There is no use of laying it or
the war for plenty of time has elapsed
and plenty OF laborers too glad to get
the money for doing the work. We
have never seen state enjoying high
degree of rural prosperity and progress
without hedges and fences. But 80 un
satisfactory has every effort been in
this direction in Georgia that they go
to the polls with it on the 10th inst,
and vote fence or no fence.
Elections are popular little arrange
ments and there is always more to fol-
low. Matters for the tall campaign
are shaping themselves. 1t was antici.
pated that in Georgia there would be
coalition of Republicans and Indepeu-
dents but as usual something nearly
always occurs to blast the hopes of the
opposition. Both parties rendered the
nomination. tor Governor to Hon. Alex.
ander H. Stephens.
He has signited his willingness to &C
cept the nomination from the Demo.
Gratis but would not run on any other
platform. To man who has stood as
high as be in southern political history
it would be only formality to place a
candidate in the field against him.
But Wa, cannot tell what time will
bring forth. In Georgia the young
men seem determined to come to the
front and ask for an infusion of young
blood among the office holders of the
State
In North Carolina the same intluen-
COS are at work and we think it would
have been better for the country ifl
younger men hal been put in posi- tion
ever since the war
The South Carolinians are the same
dissatisfied people and now apparent
ly more than ever since Mackey got his
seat in the House.
After all the true foundation ofpoliti.
cal sentiments in the south rest on the
color line. All other measures or poll
cies that may present themselves are
only as so many collaterals clustering
around the momentQus question. How
and when it will cease to agitate
the public mind 1t is impossible to tell.
RAMBLER,