American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1865-11-08

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pour down here from the North and from
Europe, and that hardy, Industrious
and enterprising population would settle
upon our lands, improve our country, and
develop its resources. But do not think
they viii come SO long as the negroes are
here. This Black population has here
tofore kept immigration from the South.
fear they will be still more objectiona-
| bic 70 the immigrant in a state of free
dom. The Northern people owe it to hu-
nanity. toward both races, TO their own
interest, to do So Gltf
Here is leud call on the Government
and the North to provide the means re-
quirel to remove Three or Four Millions
OF laborers from our country-a job which
if it could be accomplished' would cost
a sum equal to present National Debt
For the Blacks will not voluntarily co.
they will have to be expelled from their
native land by force, if at ALL as the Cher
okee, Greeks, Seminoles, aud other In
dians were and we know by sore expe-
rieuce that this is a costly undertaking
| Spain expelled her Moors France did
the same with her Huguenots; and Ell
ther nation gratiiied her bigotry and pref
udice at the cost Of serious weakness and
fnpoverishment. Neither of them has
fairly recovered from the consequent ex-
haustation to this day And can We
with the South ip ruins, and the whole
country staggering under a frightful load
Of National, State and local 'indebtness
afford to repeat this exploded, culpably
ruiuous folly? M
Mr.. Raymond cannot mislead us
on this point; for we of the North
long since emancipated our slaves,
and their children and grand-chil-
dren are still among us. Though we
have never been fully just to them,
thev have earned their living quite as
general as the.rest of us, and are
earning it to-day. They used to con-
spire to revolt while we held them in
Slavery: they have done nothing of
the kind since we gave them liberty.
fhere are dissipated, shiftless, worth
less creatures among them but the
majority are industrious and moral,
and there is a smaller per centago of
them in our Aims House to- day than
there is of our immigrant p p1pulalion.
Though prejudice born of Slavery
shuts them out of the more manly
and pIofltrble avocations, they as a
class are improving in thrift and in
creasing in property year by year.
We cont want that expatriated, and
don't mean to be taxed to pay for the
eXpatriation of their Southern breth-
ern. If any Blacks or Whites want
to leave the country, the way is open,
and will remain sos .butwe don't want
to pay honest people to leave us, and
feel that we have no right to thrust
our rascals upon other countries
Let each take care of It's own.
Frecmen Of the North you must
teach our Southern brethren that
there is safety in justice and thrift
in absolute freedom. If negroes or
others choo c to steal rather than work
deal with them sternly; but, when
you punish, let the culprit suffer not
for being a negro, but fer being a
thief.
This reproach of Incidence is old
as the hills. The Egyptian taskmas-
tcrs flung it at the Israclites when
they were compelled to make brick
without straw. Ask British Tory
to-day why the Irish Peasantry are so
saualid and needy, and he will an
swor that.thcy areindolent and thrift
less and this is measurably true
Yet the same thriftless Irish. transplant
ed to America, become industrious and
energetic, because they find here Oppor-
tunity and Hope, which are denied them
in their native land. Let us have faith
in doing right, aud in that faith so man
fully forward