Year: 1865

stances Of interest and position than that by Northern
cate the fact that all equally free but that once con-
ceded his best and truest friend will be of Southern
birth. Whether voting would be privilege TO him rs
Doubtful Of our best white men have for years
practically denied that 1t Is TO them Possibly the
object in making him voter is to make him instru
ment of good to others, not to himself.


BENEFITS OF FREE LABOR IN KENTUCKY.


fFrom the Louisville Journal, June 81


We fully appreciate the ann0yances which the slave
holding families of Kentucky have been and subjected
in tho midst We have shared the trouble
TO large extent and know Its whole nature II s there
FORE from the standpoint OF one who s sufferer from
existing evils In Kentucky that we write We are pass
ing through revolution in labor system, and until
that revolution itself shall be ended, and system
adopted in place OF the od one are bound to
that the surest and reades mode of getting rid OF our
troubles is to recognize at the inevitable liberty OF
labor system throughout the State. Lot the main
tenance Of all laborers, white and black
depend upon their own personal exerona with compen
and the existing difficulties can be overcome There arc
thousands of valuable negro aborers In the State who are
daily taking advantage OF the present opportunity for
escaping from even Of slavery the loss Of
whose service sorey felt In every neghborhood, VINO
would remain at home with their old masters II clear
OF freedom and compensated labor were given
them The the negroes are Set free as we know
they all destined at last TO be, tho sooner will they
that lesson shall be learned they will gradually and
tany II not rapidly settle down into peaceiu ana use
ful labor.


THE LABOR QUESTION IN NORTH CAROLINA.


[From the Raleigh Standard, June


The sudden, immediate abolition OF slavery has trans
formed into wastes plantations that were once gardens
Bewldered by the novelty Of freedom bodied slaves
have ceased TO work. Leaving the weak and the infrm
the women and children as burden TO those who for
mery owned them the strong and stalworth have con-
grcgated in the towns their definition OF freedom en-
bracing but two deasthe one license not to work the
other gratuous rations from the United States commits
sariat. Orders have been issued prohibiting the
oath artu IF N VicnaUa
and also fixing time at which the gra.
tuitous distribution Of rations shall cease but
these have had effect yet In lessening the evil,
dsabusng the minds OF the negroes so recently eman-
cpated Of the faacy to which they cling 80 consciously
that the power which has freed them will continue to
support them in utter Incidence This state Of things
the negroes concerned must necessarily result
lawessness and indscriminate thevng their part,
or else they must suffer Their former owners
would willingly, In majority OF instances, secure
their return to labor by offers OF fair remunera-
ton; but from what learn, efforts to this
present condition OF afiars-stinted themselves and
with prospects meagre indeed-it hard to require
our farmers to maintain those negroes who are now
burthen while deprived altogether OF the labor OF
those who able TO work. For the present we must
all do the best can avail ourselves Of the labor at
y look forward to speedy restoration Of civil authority
for amelioraon of affairs Doubtless one OF the
earliest benefits which will accrue to our people from the
thorough restoration Of the State to the Union will be
speedy and ultimate definition of the status of the freed
men OF North Carolina When this has been done the
labor to capital and remuneration to labor Until then
there can be system, stability, and consequently
but little comfort In the meantime let be patient
and do the bost for ourselves and each other