A similar fear was entertained when the slaves were emancipated. and proved groundless. I have not so poor an opinion of my country as to admit that it can not be worked and developed by any other than negro labor. and therefore do not share this apprehension. What the South especially needs. and what she will get if she can be relieved of a part. at least. of her superabundance of cheap labor. is an immigration of thrifty. intelligent. progressive. skilled citizens. freeholders. propertyowners. and wealthproducers. With such an accession to her population. her marvelous growth in the last decade. despite her drawbacks. would pale into insignilicance compared with her future development and progresK. No other people under heaven could have survived the thralldom of their dismal environments of twenty years ago.
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