The laborers share equally with the landowners the advantages of the improvement, and there is every reason to expect increasing and permanent prosperity if all questions between the landowners and their laborers in our section are left to the natural adjustment of the demand for labor.

For many years the negroes regarded themselves as the wards of the Federal Government, and it were well for them to understand that they have nothing more to expect from the Federal Government, than the white man, and that, like him, their future depends upon their own energy, industry, and economy.

This can work no hardship.
The constant demand for labor affords them the amplest protection.

Nothing, probably, would contribute so immediately to their prosperity as the reduction of the tariff.

They are the producers of no protected articles.