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Newspaper
Tarboro Southerner
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1875
Page
4
The State Agricultural Journal urges young men to remain in agriculture rather than chase professional careers. It argues most sales and professional life bring modest pay and drudgery, while farming and industrial work build real opportunity and national progress.
The piece argues that labor by freed Black Americans has proven unprofitable for Southern development. It claims most Negro workers are consumers not producers, with few productive days and declining land values on sharecropping. It urges immigration of industrious white farmers as a remedy to revitalize lands and wealth, warning the rising Black generation will determine its own usefulness over time.
In praise of the Grange, the author lists benefits such as mutual dependence, dignified farming, reduced regional prejudice, interregional exchange, and better markets. A call for vigilance at gate portals closes the note, dated Trinity Cotton in North Carolina, April 29, 1875. The letter then shifts to a Virginia issue praising Trinity College and its peers, defending regional institutions, extolling their morals and learning, describing the campus, chapel, and commencement plans for June 10, inviting a display of local belles and formal congratulations.
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