Year: 1865

wok for single day and three Of those have returned
sno ~ nov work Al stations where garrsons are
!ooesed tne negroes arc not allowed TO In the
towns and loitor round the strsss The mos Of them
hsve made up their minds, that they arc compelled
Sa inS have s'sz .ay %.S:
equitable terms with their negroes and propose estab-
ishins stores among them that they may be supplied
out this entire section the crops are nourshing and
promise well Our planters have adopted the proper
crops ~ b So rsss y.r,
sansnng need be anticipated.


1--WE Dollars . Month toe Low Wages.


From the Lynchburg Virginian, June H.


inc slaves In Virginia regarding themselves as fres
and no longer subject to the control Of their masters are
should qualify this remark 30 far Is 10 say that thoee
OF mem VINO are willing TO labor without compusion
70 the new arrangement But this does nos
compreneno the whole class by any Many Of
them are 80 demoraized by the change supposed be
wrought IN their condition that they have betaken hem
prsre nuisance and pest Large numbers have Dc %
serted the plantations and seek congregate In the
cities 80 that the most stringent police regulations may
be necessary TO keep them from overburdening the
tovhs and depicting the agricultural regions of labor
military authorities seem TO be alive to this fact
are taking measures TO correct the evil But the civil
authorities also should be fully empowered protect
thecommunity from this new imposition Tho maais
trates ana municipal officers everywhere should be per-
idle creaures Nothing short Of the efficient police
system will prevent srolling, vagrancy theft and the





system Without this shall have TO do as many free
States socalled, have doneexpel the negro from
State and introduce white labor.


But TO return to the point from which we have wan
dered we advert again to tho system being nnugu
rated IN some OF the counties looking to the readus
ment OF the relations of labor and capital The farmers
In some localities have fixed the price of field hands at
i've dollars month aud board Nov Il can be readily
perceived that thus is not enough and the effect Of will
be TO stimulate further the desire Of the negro try
fortune In the towns where he may be aured by the
prospect or the higher wages that generally paid
there The farmers will suffer In consequence II
will be remembered that the hir0 Of field hands
was formerly from one hundred to one hundred and
nfty dollars for extra good hands, including board and
clothes the owner unless whero otherwise stipulated
being responsible for apothecarcs' bills and medical at
tendance. II the slave sick month or half year.
the hire was not abated. AT the rate now fixed, the
freedman would have every day in tho wear TO
make enough TO cothe and shoe himself and would have
nothing for Doctors bills and other contingencies The
wages are 100 low and the stimulus to pundsr from the
employer or somebody else will be very great II Ia
true that the farmers in many sections have been i'm
povershed that not able TO high wages now
and II would be well IL the negroes could be induced to
act upon the suggestion Of the federal General Harris
who addressed them here, and be content work
victuais and cothes all they could expect nowas he
said, until the advent Of better times But II they are
not content with these let them have an allowance in
money that will enable them at least to support them
selves


Our people generally accept the circumstances which
have wrought this supposed change In the condition
the slave; but those who do not and unwilling
TO pay living to the negro should their rights
before the Supreme Court where 1t could possibly be
snowh hat the ega Mdt OF the slave has no more been
changed than that of the ree white man. The consttu
tona amendment has not been adopted by Virginia nor
has this State except few counties pretending repre-
sent the state, abolished slavery therein With peace
the constitution revives and should be In full
vigor, protecting our right Of property in slaves
everything else the war Of the President
70 the contrary Notwithstanding Wo have pecuniary
interest in the institution and cannot therefore be inu-
enced by selfish considerations in the opinion expressed
but we would have our people do thing or the
other We not particularly anxious to sec
slavery continued in Virginia believing that
free labor may and will DO more profitable
to us; and concedng what we predicted when opposing
secession that the result would be the abolition OF
slavery in this State think that the institution has
received too hard blow to justify the hope that can
recover But lctthe savehod contend for their In
stituon or abandoning it, agrce to pay fair wages
their negro aborers