The bee., 1883-02-24

be able to raise all the vegetables,
meat, and bread his family consumed.
A man named Jackson owed S2lO.
His crop paid his debt and he drew
balance of $240 in cash.
Another man, whose name is blurred
in my note book, who had been deeply
in dept on another plantation for six
years ran away from his debts IN the
fall of 1881. With one crop he has
paid his store account and has paid for
a good horse and wagon, and is now
making a bargain for mule to cost
$3.50. This man came from southern
Alabama. He told me that he was
greatly encouraged and now believed
he could get ahead in the world.
{ l should have said that all these men
have money due them for cotton seed,
which will be paid as soon as the gin
ming is finished
On this plantation, where 200 hands
work, the books show that the men are
indebted to Mr.. Calhoun but $500, and
the bulk of this debt was created by
the death of head of a family The
family drew provision to live on, and
they were unable to pay their account.
This statement settles the question as
to the desire of the blacks to get ahead
in the world
DESTROYS of extending his operations,
Mr.. Calhoun formed company to buy
other plantations. This company has
issued bonds in sufficient amount to
pay for the lands and to form work
ing capital. The bonds bear eight per
cent. interest, and are secured by the
lands and all improvements. The plan
is to pay the interest on the bonds and
create Il sinking fund with which to
retire them ut their maturity. Stock
was distributed to the incorpOratOrs.
The profits of the business will soon
| allow dividend to be declared on the
stock. There are at present some 15.-
900 acres of land under the manage
ment of Mr.. Calhoun, 5000 of which
are under cultivation. This body OF
land is the best | have seen in the
South. But little of it is subject to
overflow. 1t is divided into tracts,
over each of which is white foreman,
whose business it is to see that the
work is properly and seasonably per-
formed. The principles that guided
Mr.. Calhoun in the management of his
individual property, and which proved
to be eminently successful, have been
adopted by the company he now repre-
Sents. 1t is an attempt at cotton rails
ing on large scale, and it promises to
be highly successful and remuneratiye;
indeed, as the lands are generally
rented for 100 pounds of lint cotton
per acre, l do not see how they can
fail to make money and if the en-
lightened policy introduced is conti-
nued, l think that the grandson of the
original secesciOnist has solved the
problem how to advance the material
prosperity of the negroes of the South
ern States, and through that prosper
ity to educate and elevate them into
voters of fair intelligence"
Reasonable and just people, who will
take the time to enquire into the real
status of the colored people eoen along
the banks of the Mississippi river will
surely arrive at the conclusion that
the statement made by their enemies
has no foundation, so far as applying
it to them generally.
Besides being treated as Mr.. Wilkin-
son tells it, there are other things that
they have reason to eamnlain of If is
just as hard for negro to forget how
he has been treated for years back, as
well as since emancipation, as it is for
pro slarery man to accord him justice.
In the meantime, these neroges are
aware of the fact, that since freedom
something like five thousand of their
race have been killed, in the South,
simply for because they would persist in
voting the Republican ticket AS Mr..
Wilkinson, says:
"The feeling that the majority of the
planters of the Mississippi Valley have
toward the negroes is one of great
kindness. They are tolerant and hui
name, excepting in political matters;
and they are liked and respected by
the negroes, liked far better than
Northern men, and trusted further in
all things excepting politics.
Yes, so long as negro will submit
to all his employer demands, it is all
right, but just the moment that negro
begins to assert his freedom, and show
that he appreciates his rights to vote
the Republican ticket the thing changes.
DIR. ROBERT PURvIs of Philadel-
phia has instituted a suit against W.
Calvin Chase, editor of the Washington
BEE, for libel. Mr.. Chase has persis-
tently DETAINED and libled every colored
man who asserted his Independence of
the Republican machine in the Novem-
Der elections. The Globe has come in
for a full share of his malicious de-
famation and scurrility, but Mr.. Purvis
has been made to bear the brunt of it,
and seeks redress in the courts. He
cannot expect to get any money out of
Mr.. Chase the most he can hope to do
is to show that the editor of the BEE
is an enemy to truth and virtue, which
should not be hard to do.-NeD York
Globe.
As usual the editor of the Globe dis
plays his ignorance He don't seem to
know the difference between a crimi- |
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