Year: 1865

Voluntary labor is better than forced labor
the educated abOrer better than the ignorant


In Texas Il German family of ten persons have,
for four successive years raised by their own
upaided labor n larger crop OF cotton than did
the united efforts of forty slaves on an adjoining
plantation. This is not experiment but demon
straton And we wOnld not say that the ratio
-four to one--is unreasonable. The Southerner
hoasted that he was the best fighting man, by
FIVE TO one, but on being tested he failed to make
good his braggadocio. The free and Intelligent
laborer working for himself and family, can with
safety give the challenge to all advocates OF mere
brute labor to accomplish more work. and do it
better. than can any five who labor at the will
and for the benefit of others. and without mind
or thought Of their own This is a fact which
would seem to thinking men to require argu-
ment TO establish vet there many who pre-
dict years Of prostration. if not actual ruin for
the South in consequence of the abolition Of the
slave system. The truth is the ruin had come,
rapidly approaching under and by that
very system On the surface all seemed rrosper-
ous beneath, exhaustion and decay. Some
Two years since an English statesman predicted
the certain defeat of the rebels mainly hasng
his calculations on the weakness of the South
caused by the nature of its system of forced la
bOr and rnde cultivation. . The mistake that
people fall into in Europe. he wrote, - when
they expect the success OF the South is that they
lose sight of the inherent weakness of slave
owning community. owing to the want of me-
chanical Development which constitutes the great
power OF modern society, compared with for
egn ages. : = Nothing can cOmpen-
safe for the disadvantages under which they
labor. Nothing can make a COMMUNICATING
like the feudal community Of the thirteenth CEN
turv-a match for the intelligent New England
population Of the nineteenth century. =


And | should not be surprised to see the South
collapse very suddenly for. having no social
forces at its back, when once it is fairly beaten
in the field, it has nothing to fall back upon.
There is much dissatisfaction at the South, of
course. at present. and they are talking of i'm
porting coolies rather than employ their freed
negroes. This they would find to be much like
biting off the nose to spite the face. ~ Caltor
MIA Is better acquainted with that class of labor
than are those living on the Atlantic side, and
her advice is not to attempt it. The negro in
the South is in his transition state he is
bnt few months from bondage, AMI the igno-
rance imposed and fostered by the system under
which he has lived still clogs his mind and body
He has not yet attained Developments freeman,
but will soon learn the requirements Of his new
position--we fear, more speedily than his master
will realize his. Chinese labor would be but a
modification of slavery-and would. rs far as
intelligent, appreciatiye and progressive labor is
concerned. be a step backward on the part Of the
South. An educated working population has
made the North rich and powerful. and will inc
yitably do the same for any land similarly fa-
vored