And, when the black laborer and the white laborer come to their senses, join issues with the common enemy and pitch the tent of battle, then will come the tug of war.
But the large land-owners and tradesmen of the South will not in the future belong exclusively to the class of persons I have described.

On the contrary this class of hereditary land-owners will be sensibly diminished and their places be taken by successful recruits from the ranks of small white and black farmers.

Indeed, I confess, I strongly incline to the belief that the black man of the South will eventually become the large land-holding class, and, therefore, the future tyrants of labor in that section.

All the indications strongly point to such a possibility.

It is estimated that, already, the colored people own, in the cotton growing states, 2,680,800 acres, the result of seventeen years of thrift, economy, and judicious management; while in the State of Georgia alone they own, it is reliably estimated, 680,000 acres of land, and pay taxes on $9,000,000 worth of property.
Dr.Alexander Crummell, a most learned African, in a very interesting pamphlet drawn out by the malicious misstatements of Dr.Tucker, before referred to by me, makes the following deductions and statements, to wit: Let me suggest here another estimate of this landed property of the Negro, acquired _since_ emancipation.