Show PROULEM OK SOUTHERN IIIOIt I In a conversation immediately after c the war with Colonel James Ilion who ns commander of a South Carolina regiment fought on the Confederate side through t the contest tho question as to the proper treatment of the frccdmen came up Ho accepted the results of the fight and tho I subjugation as lie was pleased to term it of the South as u fixed fact No one 1 at that time expected that the ballot t would bo isloii to the freedmon We e must replace our slaves by foreignborn 1 laborers said Rlon lint it was answered an-swered lour Ollt hoots of manual laborers and your habit of command over slaves It will prevent oven tho most stupid of im v ported laborers from working under you t r I Resides you have not the ready money + to import them and you have on your t plantations in tits frecdmen tho best laborers and by all odds tho cheapest in t k the werld Your former slaves are tF attached to the homes of themselves and their ancestors and more or less to their masters Why in view of your bankrupt condition do you not face tho music and r I j accepting tho aid of this willing and acclimated ac-climated class of laborers who are ready t to work for a pittance mako the best of u it Give or sell to every wolldisposei family a cabin with from one to five acres Si j of your great plantations so that you grateful laboi eis may rise to tho dignity of householdeinand fool that they have n homes of their own through your kind I t ncRS In this way yon will attach then 1 t lo yourselves and your plantations uI 6 Hut oven so humane a gentleman as Colonel Hion could not bo convinced that this was the best way As tho lash ha1 fi f 5 5 formerly governed so now tho fear of starvation and of losing tho poor apology II t 4 for a homo which he held at tho whim of j f ii his old and presort master must keep tho helplcHS black man in subjection h Twentyone years have elapsed shire the interview named and recalling theses s things in connection with the present movement in South Caiohna to prevent It u j by State law I any attempt of tho negroes 1 to organize as Knights of Labor show that twentyone years of patient labor I xt n starvation prices Iras failed to FCCIII decent treatment for the blacks I it Hut there is a limit to injustice 1 I t special to tho World says that in a recent 6 address tho Rev T W White ono of i tho most intelligent colored preachers In i ajj the State paid Do tho whit people P imagine that by threats they can keep fl tl away from tho negroes agents or organ Inoro nml in this way by force Keep locum re in their present abject poverty and holp lessness If po they icekon without their host s Should tho bill now 1 pending become a law thorn will be 1 wholesale emigration of laboieid f ion flue State When tho negro preacher l of the gospel say to their flocks Arise am i o let us go thieve will bo wailing in Soul i + Carolina |