eir Hotspur impetuosity and Shylock
greed made possible. In short, these gentlemen comprise the moneyed
class. They are the gentlemen who are hastening the conflict of labor
and capital in the South. 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. Taking the old
slave States in the general, there has been a large
acquisition of land in each and all of them. In the State of
Georgia, as we have just seen, it was 680,000 acres. Let us
put the figure as low as 400,000 for each State--for the
purchase of farm lands has been everywhere a passion with
the freedman--this 400,000 acres multiplied into 14, _i.e._
the number of the chief Southern States, shows an aggregate
of 5,600,000 acres of land, the acquisition of the black
race in less than twenty years.

But Dr. Tucker will observe a further fact of magnitude in
this connection: It is the increased PRODUCTION which has
been developed on the part of the freedman since
emancipation. I present but _one_ staple, and for the reason
that it is almost exclusively the result of $1.