Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-12-05

Where large Rumbsr werk together they
get along better. They love 10 work side by
SIDE and keep up q constant noisy chatter.
Best OF all is where families are employed.
there IS then seine attachment to the soil
they cultivate. Tho female portion do the
wasa.ng FOR the planter, and, by o liberal
use OF potash-to save iabor--a renewal of
linen Is made necessary sbout four times per
year.
Cotton picking comes on apace. In the
beautiful snow white fields are a merry
group OF piokers. Singing ana chatting.
they move up and down tne rews Watch
them carefully. II you don't some hidden
fence corner wiz hold the negroes cruLely
calculated percentage. OF strong religious
nature, he applies literally cha aphorism s.fIe
that neglacts TO provide Tor his own has de-
MED the faith, and is worse than an infidel. -
Useless to try and detect him. The white
man Is his natural prey. The negroes will
hetray every body else, but seldom bstray
one another.
In corn-gsthering time the Negro, although
paid IN cash, generally has some corn to sell,
and mia hogs and chickens are always tat. a
strange peeuhariEy Of this absurd race u
that they hate to purchase anything from
the place on which they earn their money
They will walk i've miles to store to do
their trading, when the articles they desire
could be obtained at their very door. They
seem to have well-rooted idea that their
employer Is striving In some unknown way
to cheat them.
Whom Sambo gets his money &c burns his
pockets until he gets rid of it. II be has only
enc SKIRT, he never rests until he buys a
trunk to put 1t in. He is natural sianderer,
heart. he never fails to daride him among
the elect of his acquaintance. Comfortable
houses and better bill OF fare would de-
Teiop In far greater degree than now thu
splendid possibilities OF Southern agriculture.
New factors would arise, Gnd white labor
prove trump card in the game that is wee
to be played.
Roll back the curtain and let us have the
bright side to this somewhat dismal picture.
After reconstruction there were few ne
grSes Who were wiser than the ssrpsnts Of
cid. They saw that in the South land was
the basis OF power. Land they determined
70 have. Some homesteaded, some bought
outright. Nearly all have prospered.
Twenty years have worked wonders with
them. Some count their acres by the hnn-
dreds; some are content with lesser hold
ing. Nearly every county in the State, more
especially in middle Florida, il dotted with
thrifty, well-eultivated farms, owned and
worked by orderly and industrious negro
cattle, fat mules and sleek, fast
horses, good buggies and road-wagons,
and happy-looking wives aud chill
dren. They are patrons of she schools and
churches, meddle little il politics, and are
cordially esteemed by their neighhors IL is
town on Saturday. The men are substantial
looking and well dressed. Their wives and
little ones glitter in a.! .he articles of femi-
nine adornnlent. They are liberal purchaS-
ers, generally paying cash. Some OF theEa
have credit reaching way up into the hun
drsds. Their farms have solid air OF COM
fort. Their front yards are gay with
flowers and vines and in many cases far sur
pass those OF their white nelghbors. With
the idle and dissoluts Of their own race they
hold no fellowship, AID il the bead of tho
family occasionally falls. through the Sc
ductlve Elsdium of cred hcker," his good
wife condones the sin as she slyiy slips the
snuff stick into her mouth.
Good hvers are these negro farmers, too.
Their homeward-bound wagons ccntain tbs
best that can be Observation-Disclosures and
luxuries, as well as the necessaries of life.
Not all, however, of the negro farmers who
own their own land are prosperous and hap
py. Many of that class even live from haad
TO mouth. About so per cent are useful
and valuable adjunctS to the civilization Of
the new South.