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Show ht) IHCIt.V li ABO K. 3i iNslhNl ppl Valley loiiyenti iu Vicksburij, 7. The attendauca at the Miirjissippi Valley Labor Coq-vemiou Coq-vemiou largely increaijd lo day. The comniitteu im reBoluliona reported tlmt they lind inquired into Ibe uauHcs ul the recent txodui and believe be-lieve the following to be the principal ones, although Ibere may be other exceptional ex-ceptional reasonts: The law price ol cuttoo and the partial failure of the crop latrt year; trio irrational aj'Bleui al plantiDg; adopted iu avwo sicliona, whereby labor was dep ived of iutel-ligence iutel-ligence to direct it, and the presence ol economy to nialte it profitable; the vicious hybtem ol credit fostered by the iawa, permitting laboierB and tenanld to mortyitge crops be lore they were grown or even planted; the apprehension on the pait of many colored people, pro duced by inaidiuus reports circulated among thetn that tiieir civil and political r in hid are end lingered or likely lo 1 e; ibe hurtful lalt-e rumora diligently disseminated that, by emi grating to Kantian, colored people wjuld obt-iin lauds, mulct) and money from governmeut without cost to themuelvee, and become independent farmerrj the many retail country store keepers engaged in the business ol Belling whiiky to laborer tenants, whereby their m taU luve been cor-ruptitl, cor-ruptitl, ilien labor rendered in etlicieut and the pleasant rulalions heLweeu Ihern and their landlords and em ploy era destroyed. It ia a matter of asiotiiehrncut th.it Ihe oolured people could be induced to credit tho vJle etcrita cinulaled o' promised hinds wbero their wants wnuld be cupphed and their independence indepen-dence secured without eiertiou on their puitt It waa going to the extent uf ignorant credulity to credit them, and yet evidence of an ! undoubted character wan furnished your committee as to this matter. Il is one of the factors in the movement and which we cannot now forecast. There are in the stale of Miusirsippi alone 0,500,000 acr?a of land belonging belong-ing lo Ibe Unitid States now aubject to homestead entries, acd any thrifty c itored man in theeoutb can preempt 160 nciea of this land at moderate cost, about $18. The I and mid Kansas cannot be acquired lor lesB. In no part of the civilized world can unskilled un-skilled Irtbor secure a larger return by honest toil than among lit', but idleness, accompauivd by extravagance, extrava-gance, has produced Buffering and want, b re ua elsewhere. Your committee com-mittee believe the legislation of our slate should be shaped so as to foster habile of industry among the colored people, elevate the standard of social morale, and improve and preserve our common Bchool eyelem; that erroru have been commiittd by whites and black r alike, s each in turn have controlled the government of the elates hero represented, may beaafely admitted. |