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It Joes strike us, however, that there is some thing more violent in the institution of the Coolie system among us than there would be in the adoption of two other remedies ; first, the encouragement of white immigration to a limited extent at least; and, secondly, in forcing the negroes to work. It is thought that the increase of white labor would have a good industrial effect upon the freedmen ; and there is certainly a large force of sound sentiment in favor of letting the negro know that freedom and idleness are not synonymous terms. S me trouble would already be required to uutcach certain lessons which the freed-men have learned from their having been fed here and there at the expense of the Government. That one thing, small as it*has been in proportion to the number of the negroes, has spread a teudency to idleness tbtough the whole black population. Wherever they have been thus maintained they have utterly refused to work. It has been the case here ; Missouri, Alabama, Louisiana, Virginia, Carolina, Ten- | nesstv and Geo gia papers before us say it is j the case there; ami a Washington writer as-1 * sorts that there is very good reason for the j j prevailing report that the negro feed mg asso- j1 ciation, or Bureau, at tin* Capitol is unable to j * supply the demands upon it for labor—the » reasons being that its proteges utterly refuse lt;to be hired. Ladies here have gone to the J Government negro quarters to hire, and have lt;been most imoudently dismissed with—“I thanks you ma'am; 1 doesn’t choose to work ;I cits ’uuff to live on widout it ! There is abundant reason for the plain intimation of General Fullerton that the negroes are supposing their Bureau to have been instituted “to nurse and pamper’’ them, “to clothe and feed them ’5 and to give them “privileges that other p rsons do not enjoy.’’ It is impos ible to make the administration of the Bureau uniform, as that will differ according to the senti mentsof she‘ocal agents. *A Southern Union man, uncomprisingthrough a!! •!.. v, -/j ... »!* New YorkExpress, giving a plan for such an organization of Southern labor as will conduce to the prosperity alike of North and South. Tie* Express says his plan comes too lailt;s but re- j comrrn nuh such parts of it as may yet he j adopt* -J, |The writer has been a large slave owner and cotton p’anter.. That such a man should advise a going back as far as possible to some5radu u system of emancipation, letting tree-om be understood as a fixed fact, but freeing the negro gradually from the limited control of h*s former master, as the only possible zncam,, in bis opinion, of saving the South, shows, we think, that there are serious difficulties, in the present situation* He thinks his plan is the only one which will r^over the *riouth from bankruptcy, enable her to pay
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Galveston Tri Weekly News
Galveston, Texas, US
Mon, Oct 30, 1865
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