The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-08-10
iCOLIJMBIA..
Saturday Morning, August 10, 1867.
emigration OF Colored PeopIc to ths
r tgSef North. W .t.f. -

Enntgra ton OF Colored People to tho
,se tg2ef North. W .t.' -
That journal so we'll known to
Southern readers as the organ of a
peculiar ':.civilization, and of a gene
rous and truthful sympathy with the
benighted people of the South, in
speaking of the immigration to the
North of colored people from the
Southern States, gives us the follow
ing information: ''f7e.'es'
"These emigrants are brought
i North through the agency of the
Freedmen's Bureau. An Employ
ment Agency subordinate to the
Bureau, was established two years ago
by General Howard. and through it
and other private agencies, the ne
groes are induced to come North as
house-servants and field laborers.
Many come to this city, but greater
numbers go directly into the interior,
particularly to New Engla I'd. Two
or three intelligence offices in this
city, under charge of colored persons,
have been instrumental in finding
homes for great numbers. There is
at Charleston, South Carolina, CO.
lored orphan asylum, under charge of
Mrs. Pillsbury, in which there are at
all times about 100 children-all the
house will accommodate. Miss Chloe
Murrick, of Syracuse, New York, has
established q similar asylum in the
house of the rebel General Finne-
gan, at Fernandina, Florida. Each
OF these ladies furnish Northern peo-
pie with these yo ,g colored chill
dren as servants, uron application,
and our citizens in want of such, or
anxious to find worthy objects of
sympathy and ch 'rity, are advised to
apply direct to these ladies'"
We are gratified to learn that so
much interest is being taken in the
welfare of the young freed people,
all of whom were either deprived of
the care and protection of kind
owners, or deserted by their parents
under the excitement of their alb
rupt emancipation. Their migration
to the land of civilization and of
charity and benevolence to the race,
we trust, will be highly advantageous
to these young wards of the na-
ton, and that they will will, as they
progress to the age of maturity, be
enabled to rejoice in the blessings
not only of political, but of social
equality, so that they may rise above
the grades now allotted to them by
these emigration schemes and sem
ployment agencies" and bask in the
full sunshine Of freedom and perfect
equality. They observe that no
higher position is assigned any of
them than that of menials in the
houses of their deliverers, or laborers
on Northern farms; but still, having
landed within the area of freedom
and civilization, the path of advance
ment has been opened wide for
them, and they may have yet cause
to bless the day they were released
from their homes on the "old planta-
tion." to be taken care of by the
Christian, kind-hearted and philan.
thropic people among whom their lot
has now been cast. We hope that in
the pleasant homes to which they are
now being consigned by the benevo-
lence OF the nation, their musical
lips will never utter the old refrain
they used to sing-"Oh! carry me
back;" but, as contented and 'loyal"
citizens, they will demean themselves
as becomes their relation of "men
and brothers" to the peonla among