Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1866-11-25
NORTH CAROLINA

AmeIieratiOn Of the Freedmen-PrOpO-
sition to send them NOrth-A short
way 90 relieve them from Southern
Persecution
The Legislature of North Carolina as
sembled on Monday last, Gov. WORTH sent
his message, which among other things
takes decided ground against the eonstitu-
tional amendment. Referringto the freed
men he submitted the following plan for
their ameIioration-which opens first
char e for the practical exhibition Of North
ern philanthropy ed o.. .s t
THE people Of the South, whether from
preudiee or not it is immaterial to the view
Itake, do not regard the negro as their
equal He is not allowed the right of suf-
frage. The North insists that this prejudice
of the South does cruel wrong TO the Afri-
cans among US. They are very poor, and
few of them have acquired local attachments
by ownership of land. The results of eman-
cipation have made the whites poor also,
and the uncertain condition of our Federal
relations prevent the influx Of capital or
population. Enterprise is paralyzed. Few
are able to employ laborers and pay them
literally. On the other hand the dominant
State are rich in all Of these. The wages Of
labor are much greater than we can pay. In
many of them are public lands of great fer
tility, which the laws give 10 actual set
tiers at moderate price. In one of
these States a portion of the people have
given an earnest Of the principles they
profess By eleeting two Africans as mem
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thing seems TO invite their emigration
to the dominant States; but most Of them
are too poor to pay for moving. This diff
Guilty may be overcome by directing the APP
preparation made to sustain the Freedmen's
Bureau to defraying the travelling expenses
Of these who may choose to move, allowing
each one to choose the State or Territory to
which he would go. When thus left free
and aidee to go where they may think their
condition will be bettered, no grounds will
be left for further sectional strife as TO their
government. Who that would avoid tn
rock on which our shipof state Is threatened
with wreck will object to the scheme oil
reconciliation? It is clear that the North
ern States will not object to it. IT will
place the negroes voluntarily emigrating to
them under their immediate guardianship, |
where they can look alter their personal
protection and mental and moral culture
much mere directly than they can by a !
Freedmen's Bureau or any other machinery
while they remain here. | am sure North
Carolina win not object to this scheme III
it be objee.ed that the emigration woald be 1
80 universal as to leave US fora time without |
a suficiency Of laborers, and it be conceded !
that this would be the result, who wou d |
not prefer to perform labor service until
labor could je procured, to the inquietude
and humiliation to which We are now sub
iected But such would not be the result.
North Carolina means to treat her freed |
men with justice and humanity. Very
many of them retain the feelings ofkindness
and confidence which they formerly felt
toward heir late masters, and these re-
ciprocate the feelings and pay them fair
wages, and give them every reasonable ait