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from three dollars to thirty. — B.] The water power of 
the South will be brought into use by this new immigra- 
tion, and manufactures will spring up in all directions, 
giving abundant employment to all classes." 
One year and three months have elapsed since the utter- 
ance of the foregoing prophecy by the distinguished prisoner 
at Fortress Monroe, Since that time, we have seen crowds 
of negroes coming home to their old masters. We have 
seen many of them dying at military posts. We have seen 
the grasping Puritan leasing land at ten dollars per acre, 
hiring Southern overseers, and mating money. We have 
seen some of them try the experiment with a few trifling 
white men and as many trifling freedmen, and mate a per- 
fect failure. 
We have seen manufactures springing up, as if by the 
magician's wand, all over the South. We have seen our 
noble women encouraging their husbands and sons to 
wort. We have seen our brave young men marching in 
files and columns to the field to fight the enemy, chopping 
cotton to the music of " Dixie."" 
And while viewing these things, and trying to loot into 
the future, we called to mind a lesson impressed on us 
more than forty years ago by a worthy teacher. " Boys," 
said he, " who was the first laborer ? " Some said Cain, 
some Abel, and some Adam. 
" You are all wrong," said our worthy president, God 
was the first laborer. Don't you remember Deus creavit 
coelum et terram intra sex dies ? And, again, it is said, He 
rested from His labor. Now translate this short sentence, 
Labor vincit omnia." With wonderful concord we all ex- 
claimed, " Labor conquers all things." 
