The Negro Imbroglio [pp. 518-522]

THE NEGRO IMBROGLIO.
for irrigation; each yielding two tuns of hay per acre, or 600
tuns at ten dollars per tun, $6,000 dollars.
The crops raised firom the remainder of the lands, can be ex pected to cover the current expenses; so that the $6,000 can be
considered net profit or thirty per cent on the investment of
$20,000; or the interest at 51 on a capital of $120,000, the true
value of the improved property.
Mines are exhausted, govcrnment bonds depreciated, certain
industrial branches cease, -and the stocks of railroad companies
become often valueless; yet good landed property rises gradually
in value.
It is lasting and imperishable.
ART. IV.-TJIE NEGRO IMBROGLIO-FARMS FOR THIE FREEDMEN.
WE are not of those who despair of the Republic. We have
entire confidence in the practical common sense and sober second
thought of our people, North and South. Like other nations,
and like all past generations, we must buy our own experience.
When we have exhausted experiments, we shall acquire and fall
back upon experience. General Howard and his Bureau, and the
federal armies stationed in the South, occupy and preside over
the largest zoological gardens ever seen or heard of before.
Never were men more assiduously, earnestly and zealously engaged in practising, morally, intellectually, socially, educationally,
and phrenologically, the "experimentumn i vile corpus." If there
be any good in or about the negro, they will be sure to detect,
expose and develope it, or if he be an irreclaimable dunce and
savage, they will find it out and proclaim it.'Tis true the experiment costs the nation some forty millions a year, but we have
expended or lost at least ten thousand millions in the process of
liberating the negroes, and should not grudge a few hundred
millions more, spent in civilizing them, educating them and mnaking them in all respects the equals of the whites. If we effect
this, we shall have done more for human kind than all our predecessors, the world over. The object is one of the most lofty and
praiseworthy ambition. Our rulers fired by this noble ambition,
and believing their object attainable, will not hesitate to employ
any means fair or foul, to accomplish their purposes. Resist it
as we may, (and as we should) negro suffrage, and negro political equality, in all respects, will be forced upon us. Nay, it is
certain, that if the radical party continue in power they will not
stop at mere negro equality. They hare offered to him exhaustless acres of the public lands, and he contemptuously spurns the
proffered gift. He wants, or pretends to want, a farm in the
midst of old, well-settled civilized society; well enclosed, with good
houses, live stock, seeds of all kinds, farming implements, and at
least a year's provision ahead-what the use to him who has not
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