Year: 1865

ton of our readers to it again.


We assumed last week the position that in
order to make the freedman valuable as la


borer, he would have to be brought into COM
petition with the labor of the white In
this, think, we are correct, and shall not
enter again upon an argument to sustain the
position.


We propose to show some of the additional


advantages which may arise to the country by


the introduction Of white labor and holding out
inducements for migration. Tt.


The Judgment of those who are skilled in
such matters, as well as the experience OF
others, GO to show that there is no part of tbs
hnbi.able globe, perhaps, better adapted to the
successful culture of the grape than ours. We
have long been accustomed to read in story and
il song of the vine-clad bills of Italy and of
France, and may it not be the case that future
! generations may be amused in reading of the
vineyards and the wine presses of Arllarsas


IN Missouri there is already an extensive culti-
vation of the vine. In some portions of the
| State it is source Of great profit, and gives
employment TO a large number of hands. We
are far South of Missouri-on the Southern slope
of the great water shed which drains to the
Gulf Of Mexico-we have the soil and the eli
mate and all we need is the trial. the applica-
ton Of the labor to the cultivation of the grape
and the production of the wine The people
of this country, with here and there exeep-
ton, VIII never engage in it, not for great
while. They have been educated in different
school of production corn, cotton and wheat
nave heretofore filed the measure Of their de-
sires. They have grown up and acquired a
knowledge of the culture of these productions
and they cannot now enter upon new field Of
experiment This must be opened by another
class of people-by those who have been brought
up in this school of production, The vine
dresser by education cannot become the sue
cessful farmer any more than the farmer can
become the vintner. The change is too radical
the routine is too different


The hill sides of Arkansas, which are now
passed as valuless by the citizen, under the
persevering industry and energy of this vine
cultvating population, would soon grow purple
with the clustering grape, and the chills and
| feyerS and bone-shaking agues be driven away
and dispeled by luscious fruit and ruby wine,
! Instead of the cankering mercury and nauseous
quinine. This class of population would be-
come consumers and make an additional de-
mand for the agricultural productions. TIE
| corn and wheat which would row up and fill
the graneries of the trained farmer, would be
exchanged for the fruits of the grape-growers
toll, and a ready market supplied at home.


The Introduction of this class of people would
make demand for ether branches of industry.
CoOpers, pelters and glass makers would follow
them. These, TOO, in turn would attract other
kindred caliings. No trade. profession, OF ayo-
cation, is independent of all others. Each has
to be sustained by the other. 1t is true that
agriculture is the bsse-the substrstum upon
which all the others are erected The farm.
er is the great motive power which moves
all other branches of industry. But he, too
for profit and wealth is relatively dependent
upon the others. He must find market and
sale for his productions. he fails at Il bare
subsistence. The nearer he finds the market
to his home, the greater the amount of his pro-
fits. His toll is not consumed by the moths of
transportation, insurance, commissions and bro
kersge


The introduction of the white laborer would
have anotner wholesome effect With linn
would come all the labor-saving appliances of
the age. The ingenious mechanic will fellow
in the wake of the adventurous husbandman,
and by the application of his contrivances
for the saving of labor, lessen the expendi-
ture for number of hands by increasing the
amount to be done by one. Thi; has been
done i'll the West by the reaper and thresher-
by the washing machine-by the improved
ploughs, and hundreds of others which we of
this country know nothing Of The negro was
net regarded as being sufficiently intelligent in
most instances to work these ingenious con-
trivances successfully, and he was required to
DO the work with his hands The people studied
but enc subject agricultural idea, which
was the production of cotton. The planter was
engrossed with the idea that increase of his
wealth was in the exact ratio with the number
of bales of cotton produced. Many raised cot
ton to buy pork with, and -four, and almost
every thing else. Observation has shown that
such course was failacious, because the most
successful men in the accumulation of money
and property were those who produced every
thing within themselves, while those who
bought every thing in most instances were be-
hind hand, in debt and hard run.


With the great change now commencing in
labor should commence some other wholesome
changes. Let the country. as far as practicable
become self-supporting We must produce
within ourselves everything we can which is
necessary for our consumption. If we force
ourselves to this idea of self-dependeLce, and
practice a judicious system of economy, we too
will soon see pre- osperity smiling upon our land.


We cannot believe that because the negro is
freed we shall never see prosperity in the coun-
try again. 1t is true, his labor and our property
in him was the great source of our wealth.
But the same energy and measure of industry.
which enabled TO purchase the slave and
control bis labor, viii make money in some
ether field II the negro fails in the new field
as profitable employee, discard him promptly
and try those who have heen made profitable
| for generations, and by whose patient to il more
men have grown rich than ever have by the
| labor of tue negro. What other people have
done we can do. We are the equals OF any
IotI, in. niTto of ~ k.Ic IL