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CULTIVATION OF COTTON. 
Steedman and FuUerton, made during the past summer, is 
very satisfactory on this point. It is simply a second edi- 
tion of McKenzie's " St. Domingo," in respect of the moral 
and industrial status of the negro, and his gradual descent 
from slavery, through freedom, to the grave. 
On the other hand, we state with pleasure that wherever 
the negro has been controlled, put to work, compelled to 
work by contract, and has had the superintendence of a 
competent white man, he does well ; the nearer he has been 
made to approach his old position of a slave, the better he 
has laliored, and we believe it will always be so. The 
course of the late Congress, more especially in conferring 
civil rights upon the negro, is well calculated to arouse the 
worst fears of the Southern planter. The inevitable 
tendency of all their measures is to establish vagabondism, 
pauperism, pest-houses, crowded hospitals, walking nui- 
sances, larceny, pillaging bureaux, negro effeminacy, epi- 
demics, desolation, death. The end of these things is the 
extinction of the poor Africans, and the grand jubilee of 
their destroyers. May God stop them in their mad career 1 
May a wise policy prevail, and may the freedman by ju- 
dicious legislation of the State in which he lives, and the 
kind yet rigid discipline of his employers, live long in the 
land, and prove himself a useful laborer ! We cannot well 
give him up. We can do better for him than any of his 
new friends. We know his wants, his wishes, his capacity ; 
and, as we have accepted the abolition of slavery as a 
fixed and unalterable fact, we are now paying him for his 
labor, and endeavoring to allow him to work out his own 
salvation by our sincere cooperation. 
We ask protection from the government. What is it ? 
We ask " to he let alone." This is all the protection we 
want. Shall we have it ? The future of the freedmen, then, 
