The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-05-06 00:00:00

A NF.GItO EXODUS.

The Daily News New York Correspondent writes :—The
migration of Southern Degrees, which has assumed
within the past month the character of an organised
exodus, is filling planters with dismay and awakening in
the Northern Stated no little astonishment and perplexity.
The negroes are anything but a migratory race. They
have strong local attachmentr. They cling to the
plantations on which they were born, and severe poverty
and ill um will hardly dnve them more than • few mile.
away. Yet it is now reported that they are forsaking the
fields by thousands and (teeing to the river, where they
beard the steamboats for St. Louis. and thence make their
way as best they can to Kansa The movement appears
to have been in contemplation for at least a year or two.
How little confidence there is between w bite and black in
the Southern States Duty be judged from the feet that the
eche.° was uns,ispecteddintil suddenly we heanl one day a
cry of abrrin from the planters that their labourers had run
• and their crops were going to ruin, and at the same
time a disquieting report from St. Louis of the arrival of
a boatload of the emigrants:destitute, hungry, and almost
naked. Small parties of the more adventurous and
Intelligent field hands had already removia to the north-
west when the general excdus began about the lot of
March. Since that time ever three thousand have
reached St. Louis, where a few hundreds still remain for
lack of means to go farther. Most of them are In extreme
advert?. They sold everything to raise four or five dollars
or the they voyage. The advance guard, six hundred
strong, arrived at St. !orris in the midst of • violent
1 snowstorm. on one of the coldest days of the inclement
spring. and landed in wretched plight, with only the
vaguest idea of the long route that lay before them.
They comprised whole famaies, and it IA remarked that •
Luxe proportion of them were the very aged end the very
Toting. The coloured poop* of the town came to their aid
Headed by their preeehers they went to the levies, and
led the famished and shivering emigrants to the coloured
churches. Beds were made in the pews. Fires for cook.
Mg were kindled in the basements. Collections of money
and clothing were made through the city. A lady who
etejted the grateful refugees in their Sams of shelter
writes that the churches rang with cries of " Glory be to
God ! I tole ye de Lord would help us." Every day
brought other crowds, and the churches opened their
table doors Wee many as t,OOO in a single week.
A , without an exception, were bound for Kansas.
There can be no doubt that for many years the blacks have
associated the name of that State with the ideas of
political and social equality. They knew something, even
in their bondage, of the famous struggle for freedom
which reddened it,. soil. They seem to have directed
their steps thither--fir.t, from the conviction that it was ,
• land where coloured people were "treated just like
white folks," and, secondly. with certain painfully
definite ideas of help from the United States Govern.
ment when they reached there.
The freedmen are convinced that the prevailing distress
I. the direct consequence of oppressive legislation ; and
that they will not be allowed to vote for law.makers and
governors who might do something to help them. The
reports of investigation committees of Congress are lag
with narratives of murderous iiitragere committed upon
coloured men for purely political causes. The evidence
Is overwhelming Haat • general eonanirscr, extending
all over the area of the late trintederacy, lias driven the
coloured man out of political life and means to keep him
out at any cost. The calendars of the Fnlcral courts are
crowded with Imes brought under the election laws or the
"enforcement laws," for crimes against nem") voters or
Interference with the freedom of the ballot, most of there
cafe; Leing destined to fail because witnesses are
fethwidetW. driven away, or locked up on fictitious
charges. But I have seen no morn startling illustration
of the injustice to which the negro is still subjected in the
free South than an incident just reported in the
telegraphic news of the Herold. A wellto.do coloured man,
named Kinney, who owns a farm near Richmond, Virginia,
lived for a good while with a white woman, not his wile.
Threatened with prosecution for illegal cohabitation, the
pair went to Washington, and were there la wt ully married.
Then they returned te the farm, believing that they had
made the best amends for their fault But the outraged
public opinion of Virginia, which tolerated Kinney.
whifiefhmaistzfetz•ffa. long time, would not
t;Ile The
end " with
immeiiately inliCtlnguneddelyil State
I law which forbids intwrinairinges or white and blacks,
and have just been Gent to the penitentiary for floe yea,,,

FIIIOAT Inursnos. —*renews and drywall, tickling
and bwtation, inducing cor.gb and affecting the voice.
For these arrant :ma use Epps'. Glycerine Jujubes.
Glycerine, in tham agreedde confections, being in
proximity to the glands at the moment they aro
excited by the act of muckier, becomes actively heal-
!sig. Sold only in 6d. and Is. boxes, labelled
' JANE! EPPS and Co., Homeopathic Chemists,
London" A letter received: "Gentlemen :—lt may,
rinterest you to know that, after an extended 'haveieitalhi,T found your Glycerine Jojoba, of con-
siderable benefit (with or wilitout medical treatment)
In almost all forms of throat disease. They soften
and kswar the voice. In no case cen they do say
harm.—Youn falthfully,Golsos liouganLlLCI.P.Z.,
liedol Physician to its Municipal Throat sad Ear
Tofiram.

THE REPRESENTATION OF CARDIFF.
The South Wel s D:ily Ness of this morning announces
that Colonel Stuart will retire from the representation of
Cardiff at the close of the present Parlounent. The
Liberals time not yet selected their candidate, but it Is
understood that Sir Dar Guest will contest the seat in
the Conservative interest.