The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-09-14

and NOS Ne, Who had been sfudying
the effects OF British ana Fr-oeh
Emancipation. in their West indifn
Colonies, and had l~ssoed. from is,
that whereas the market vaiae of So
gar and other products Of Slave Ia bor,
had, before, been Represented BY the
cost OF PRODUCTION, Plus the profit Of
the Slave owner upon his investment,
u vas ever afterwards, represented By
the cosT or PRODUCTIONS ALONE Ane
80 IL 10 throughout tie South to-day
| aud 50 IL viii remsip, IS long n the
cheap-negro-Isborer continues 20 be a
principal factor. The stake p'syed
for, by both parties 10 that dreadful
conflict, sas great QUE, but the ~
suit Of the game was that the New
| Epgiander won everything, aud W.
lost everything. Ia other words, w-
are holding the cow while he nilks
| her, and IT is FgoM hin, that We may
expect the MOST STUBBORN OPPOSITION
10 any scheme Of NEGRO COLONIZATION
And, that this vie \ Of our indus'ri-
al tsudition, is both sound snd true
has been fully sxemplified ia cur late
experience. For IL must not be for
ago, the good people Of North Ca.oii-
as set out In the nope, and ia the b.
iiet, that with Cheap N-Gro-I.sb "
they could repair their fortunes, by
making hiyh-priced cotton, and high
priced tobacco-and tais they were
able TO do for time, because Of ex-
ceptioBAi circuDstances-aHd cou d
CONTINUE TO Do SO, until they shcui 4
| ALL GET RICH! But no people were sv
ef awakened from y greater deiusiOn
| so great indeed, that know nothing
| with which to compare it. Perhaps
| such OF my readers as have accompx
MED Mr.. Lemuel CULVER, in his Vuy
age to the Island Of Bainibarbi, ard
there visited the Grand Academy of
LagadO, may have seen some thing
that resembled it, For there be saw,
| some of those famous projectors In.
boring in the effort, to calci ne ice into
gunpOwder! Others were trying As
hard, 10 Ietrify the hoofs OF living
horses, 80 as to prevent laundering!
Others We're engaged in the work of
sOitenink marble, into pillows and
pincushiOns While others still, were
trying to extrac5 sunbeams out of Gu
cumbers! 70 the reader Of Gulliver's
Travels these must have seemed to be
absurd employ ments, and yet, 10 one
OF these was more absurd speak in
general way-tban the mcney- max
ing experiment, which for more than
thirty years, We have been conducting
with cheap-negro labor. For after
puzzling over this problem, for all
these ears, We have discovered, that
one side of the equation exactly bal
ances the other side, and that the whole
ia in ha fn ,yp,r1~
Mill FIT, which is as much rs to say,
that cut of nothing you can get nothing
For, after all, CHEAP LABOR is the
country.
So Disappointing in it's results, has
has been this system of CHEAP LABOR
that hazard the assertion, that there
cannot be found any State in the South,
or any section of any State, or any
county of any section, or any town
ship of any county, or any neighbor-
hood of any township, where the Sc
curity, the enterprise, and the thrift,
are not In inverse ratio to the predOm-
lnence of the negro population. Wher-
ever that predOminates it furnishes
chattel mort cages, cow I'll q b o r,
lily nching Bees" blOOdh Dund., and
"Pive Cent { OttOn" and other raw ma
terial in proportion. And the effect
OF this Cheap Labor-Sy stem-which
does not apply to our manufacturing
industries, for in them the Negro does
not, AS YET, enter as factOr-has been
to convert the people of North Carroll
| ma, very largely, into two grand divis-
ions, composed of Poor White Folks on
the one side, and Poorer Free Negroes
on the other. speak in general terms,
| for there Is still, small and OppuleDt
division, tnat seeks to rule the other
two. And it is this powerful minority,
which is in undis puted control of the
| Democratic party to day.
| This purbiind party, In its solution
| of the Racial Problem, has from the
! beginning been PATTY OF EXPKRI-
MENTs. Thus, as far back as 1876, it be-
gan, in fit of generous Enthusiasm
il in fact its action was not cOERCED
by the 18th Article of the U. s. Goa
stitutiOn?-by investing the Negro
with absolute political equality, anu
appealing to his gratitude, 1t exhorted
him to put his trust in the Demo-
cratic party. But the wrong headed
Negro declined the exhortation. No.
| thing discouraged bv his refusal, il,
next presented him with Public Free
Schools of his own, and endowed cost
~ and EieemUsy nary and Educational
Institutions for his benefit, and point
ing to them, it cOnjured him to be a
good cit zen, and vote the Democratic
ticket! But all this only hardened him
in his obstinacy, until the Democratic
party, in transport of rage, has dis
covered, that from first to last, it has
| been doing nothing but sowing the
| Dragons Teeth.
Now however, we are to have anoth-
er experiment, and a new solution of
| the prObiom. For wearied out, with the
ungratefUl Obstinacy Of the Negro, the
Democratic party at length reversee
| its whole policy, in respect to him. II
| now proposes in this land of equal con-
stitutiOnal rights, to set up political
serfdCnl, which will be but slightly
differentiated from Slavery itself; and
this it is doing, in profound ignorance
of the fact, that such treatment can
snly aggregate the distemper, it il
trying to cure, by making the Negr.
just LITTLE CHEAPER THAN HE AL
READY Is. The only difference, be-
tween the "new institution" and the
old is, that the one will be little more
peculiar" than the other, ip:t his, that,
whereas, in the,thing called Slavery We
cultivated the bumanitles of life, in
this new thing called Freedom, we are
c0ltivatlng Its atrocities.
At any rate, the DOL cy of the Dem
ocratic party, hencefOrth and forever,
is to be one of prescription, terrorism
and fraud; and this, If not openly pro-
claimed, Is no longer disguised. Aud
this its latest policy it borrows from
such Rotten Burroughs as the States
OF South Carolina, Mississippi, and
Louisiana. or this change Of policy it
gave Us q fOretaste in the last cam.
paigD, aud such q One as showed, that
the system Of-terr0r, could be easily
enlarged and improved. And inasmuch
as this party is in avowed sympathy if
not in reasonable correspondence
with AguinatdO and his bapdi,ti, why
may we not expect, that it will intro |
duce some of the methods that evail |