Year: 1874

Industrious habits win stin work. though win less
result by fifty per cent than formerly The rising
generation nave no such habits, and are not likely
ever to become productive members OF society.
1t ts even more dif1cult to obtain and retain Q
faithful negro servant here than an Irish servans
at the North. They come and 60 at Will, stay long
enough TO earn few dollars to spend, then leave
and find another place when their iunds are ex-
hausted. Unfortunately, desirable as is an educa-
tion, their Improvement In books is temporarily
having the enect OF teaching the poor creatures to
aim above the level which somebody must always
occupy in the social scale. Should these influences
continue the blacks viii gradually work
themselves out OF employment and their
places Will be supplied BY Industrious ana Wiling
iaborers OF another race. II must not be under
OF the South are averse to the education Of the
cOlored race. on the contrary, they are using
sors nd ese sor Ins hs o. sas
quenty taught to read and write before the war,
in order that his usefulness might be augmented.
and to- day Georgia Is annually expendng 1856, 900
as . school fund, the benefit OF which Is equally
divided between the whites and the blacks. Tns
colored people are also establishing lodges of the
order OF Good Tempars for the promotion OF tenn.
Rerance and private benevolence among them.
nnsfs ssen 1ts oages this state in sus
cessu operation under ana the =, direction
now numbers between 500 and 400 members All
these things show how the people OF Georgia are
striving 10 solve the problem OF the negro's wei
fare, and how they view any present demoraliza-
tlon as one OF the natural and possibly TO be ex-
pected stages in his progress, believing that tlmo
ana experience will eventually cause the scales TO
drop from his eyes and enable him TO see clearer
tnan now now he may become useful member or
society and coworker with themselves. In Savan-
nan the Commissioners OF Public Schools have
made provision Tor l4Oo colored pupils, ana re-
Gently secured premises in which 600 more may %
educated. Eleven teachers are coored and three
are white. In Macon the colOred public school 10
one OF the handsomest edifces in the city.
In Nj
lege which annually receives from the
state. the same donation that is given to the white
capactous for the accommodation OF all who seek
admission. The whites OF Georgia do not there
niger" II they do, this is certainly curious
method Of sho wing their antpashy.


COTTON PRODUCTION.


TIL not an argument against the ideneSS OF the
negro that the production OF cotton has been SO
well main tained since the war. First, large aud
unusual amount OF white labor has been applied to
the CROP Secondly, oy the use OF iertilizers one
acre has been made to perform the work OF threo
thus hastened to ruition in time to anticipate tho
early frost winch before ret the war was almost annu,
aS Georgia. Carolina Rsnnesse North
Carolina and Virginia, through this means
have been na ss TO oson %
calltes has been supplied. As an Illustration Of
the great changes that have taken place within
has led to an increase OF cotton in the neghbor-
hood through which It passes thousandlcld,





staple-the decline amounts to forty or fifty per
cent In the one place white labor is doing the
% 81 Iae wheSer with SUCH sma
minority OF labor, the whltes even with all their
agricultural advantages and al the profit likely 70
accrue therefrom, can without accessions main
tain the crop at the present standard and estab-
llsh basis OF calculation on which the capitalist
and manufacturer may safely count his gains.


THE IDOL AS CHRISTIAN.


1t is an unfortunate fact that in religious mat
ters the negroes since their separation from the
whiteq ChnrCheA have zone into every Vaf1s
ETY. OF excesses both IN worship and belief Some
OF their congregations are little better than SO
many pandemonia where you may witness the
widest spasms the most approved forms OF Chris
tanned cataepsy, and sometimes death ITSELF
Giving loose rein to naturally excltable natures,
they exhaust themselves in an ideal form OF adOra-
ton until at last faith has degenerated into super
preacher. Among the ignorant, voudou practices
are rife, and bit OF ground glass. sewed up In
9ag taas W Sphen away M
Witchcralt, sorcery and c0nJurtng are growing
consequences Of the general Generalization. They
have not the restraining influences OF better asso-
citation and example.


MICRO SUFFRAGE


Where tho ballots OF the negro are thrown with
out Intelligence and under the influence OF false
and wicked representations, and where the race
can thus insensibly exercise control in public
affairs, Is is impossible Tor good government to
exist A bad man from the North may come mere,
proclaim himself q radical, and In three months 50
far win the confidence OF these ignorant people AZ
that they will follow his advice 0lindly to the



gotten ali the benefits or past or present life arc
ignored, and i0r no 0Iher reason than tnat this
man ID believed by them to represent what they
cali liberty, and Dad as he may be, they will obey
mis- voice as II he were an autocrat, and do his
bidding like slaves. 1t Is for this reason that the
people Of the south never have been able to mako
political headway with the negroes. and even
Is republicans have been thrown aside for the
carpet tpagger and thief. 1t IS only little while
ago that the race made deposits OF their savings
in the Freedman's Bank To-day 1t is said to be
. hOpelessly insolvent institution and yet the
poor dupe taxes no lesson, and even kisses tho
nand that gave the cruel blow. 1t iS q curious
race. year or two ago one or their number, Q
Northern negro, named Alvah Peoria Bradley,
went among them and collected their poll taxes.
amounting TO several hundred dollars and de-
camped He Is now back again seeking Tor office
or another swindle and IT will not be astonishing
u, for no other reason than that he 10 Boston
radical he succeeds In securing under some
their years. nard earnings. It Is thia
class OF people to whom the whites
refer, when they say, s'Let US alonep' 1t is but
lair TO say, however, that even II there were ne
voter, would probably still be political evil for
he would naturally affiliate with that class Of
whites who approach him nearest In character
and condition. and who are base enough to cheas
him out OF his ballot for no other object than to
put the worst elements Of society forward IN tho
administration Of the government. II the colored
man were less afflicted with political prejudice
there would be less danger OF political corruption,
for the whites have the strongest inducements to
secure to him all OF his rights as citizen, ana to
they have sought In vain to do ever since the
close OF the war; nor will they succeed in the
iuture until the chief dsorganizng element OF the
country is removed by moral force-I mean the
carpet-bagger.