The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1885-05-29

. | r. "AAN A~'S 5AoNd AZ olucr tlic aDOIiIlO
OF slavery. There is said to be a MOTTO
spreading among theE. that it is the air
ana end OF education to enable people t
get on without work. This tendency i
exciting prejudice against the education
or negroes not only among certain classe
OF whites, but also with some of the NOR
thrifty among the negroes themselves.
neard OF prosperous negro farmer in Ala
bama owning well stocked farm of so,
acres, worked by him with his children
who refuses to send his boys to school be
cause learning would spoil them for farm
work, and who permitted only one of hi
girls TO learn reading and writing, so tha
she might be able to keep his accounts
Here is a field for missionary work, which
those whose public spirit is devoted to thu
elevation OF the colored race snould kee1
well IN view. The relation of grammar tc
industry must be made tangible to the
young mind, as it is at the Hampton In
stltute and several others. The addition
OF industrial teaching to the common school
Z Is in this respect of especial Importance.
= Among those who have been slaves there
'hos great many skillful mechanics
! n.-zsksmitfls, caffentels, ha11iess- makers.
shoemakers, etc. Their SOUS, raised in
freedom, seem to be less inclined to devote
themselves to these laborious trades: and
tudes, might, properly trained and guided
furnish the South all the handcraftsmen
necessary for ordinary work. AS it is, the
negroes constitute, and will for long pc
ROD to come continue to constitute, the
bulk OF the agricultural laboring force in
the principal cotton States, and every sen
slble Southern man recognizes them as a
most valuable and, in fact, indispensable
element in developing the resources and
promoting the prosperity of the South
| They are there to stay, and must be made
the best of by Just and wise treatment.
The visitor will be struck with the gen
orally hopeful and CHEEKY tone prevailing
| IN Southern society. Their recovery from
| the disasters of the war has been more
rapid than at first they expected. They
are proud, and justly proud, of what they
have accomplished in that direction They
are glad to have strangers observe it. Hav-
ing done so much, they feel that they can
| do more. While business is in many re-
spects depressed in the South, less COM
! plant OF this is heard than at the North
The general spirit prevailing in the South
now is very like that characteristic of the
new West; a high appreciation of the re-
sources and advantages of the country;
| great expectations of future developments;
| a lively desire to excite interest in those
things, and to attract Northern capital
enterprise and immigration strong con
! sciousness and appreciation Of the impor
tance to them of their being part of a
great, strong, prosperous, and united
| country.
| The political effect of the steady growth
| of such feelings has been very natural
one. It is the complete disappearance of
all ''dislOyal" aspirations. However strong
| their desire to destroy the Union may have
| been twenty years ago, | am confident.
| scarcely corporal's guard of men could
| be found in the South to-day who would
| accept the disruption of the Union if it
were presented to them Those were right
! who predicted in the early part of the war
| that the abolition of slavery would not
only break the backbone Of the rebellion,
but also remove the cause of disloyalty
| from the South. This it has completely ac-
complished.
peculiarly terrific figure in partisan
harangue is the ''Rebel Brigader." From
the description made of him ''the Rebel
Brigadier" might be supposed to be an in
curably blackhearted traitor, still carving
the rebel flag under his coat to bring it
out at an opportune moment, still secretly
drilling his old hosts in dark nights, and
getting himself elected to Congress for
the purpose of crippling the government
by artfully contrived schemes to accom-
plish the destruction of the Union as
soon as his party is we'll settled in power.
Now, what kind of man is the Rebel
Brlgadier' in reality? He belonged in
the South, originally, to the same class to
which the Union Brigadiers belonged in
the North. After the close of the war he
found himself as poor as the rest of his
people. At first he moped aud growled a
little, and then went to work to make a
living-as farmel, or lawyer, or a rail-
road employee, or an insurance man. or a
book agent. Being man of intelligence,
he was among the first to open his eyes to
the fact that the war had been-perhaps
very foolish venture for the South, be-
cause it was undertaking against over
whelming odds-and certainly very dis
astrous one, because it left nothing but
wreck and ruin behind it; one of those en-
terprises which a man of sense may delude
himself into once, but never again. He is
now very busy repairing his fortunes in
the civil walks of life, and the better he
succeeds, the more conservative he grows,
for the more clearly he perceives that his
own fortunes are closely linked to the gen
! eral prosperity of the country, and that
everything hurtful to the country hurts
him. He is in many IL stances drawn into
public life by the choice of his neighbors.
His views questions of public policy
may frequently be mistaken-they proba
| bly, are. He may also be always ready to
Jump up in defense of his record and the
record and character of his associates in
the war; He shows pride of his and their
gallantry in the field, as every soldier will
do, and he is unwilling to have it said
that his motives were infamous-a thing
| which but few men, and those not the
| best, are willing to hear or admit. But
| having learned at his own cost what civil
war is, he would be among the last to
tbiply IF roho11inn 10 has hat
| military honor in him which respects the
terms of capitulation; and if he has any
ambition to show his prowess once more,
| it will be for the restored Union and not
against it.
$4,000 Ahead.
A jury in the city court of Savannah,
Georgia, on Tuesday last, rendered ver-
dict for $40, 900 damages in favor of A. A.
Smith, commercial traveller, against the
Georgia Central railroad. On Christmas
| nioht the nlaintiff fell on the track in the