The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-07-24
Facts for Negroes.


There are 100000 of them in Cali
Sarnia, and the Pacific railroad
nnts them within a weeks timeof
Southern cotton plantations. In
their own country, across the seas,
the population hives to the almost
Incredible number of 300,000,0O0
ofsouls. We have nothing to say
now, for or against the policy of
this class of immigration. Argu-
ment would, seemingly. be thrown
away. They are coming. The
tramp of the advancing host
oflaborers is borne by the Yves
tern breezes. Steam carries them
on its wings across the trackless
Pacific, and a trans-continental
railroad, built by the U. S. Gov
ernment and the North, will emp
ty them upon these States. There.
is no question about their capa-
bilities as skilled, patient, thrifty,
faithful and industrious sons of
labor. Reared to toll, most apt at
imitation, and with wonderful
powers of adaptation of life and
habits to new scenes and employ
ments, these strange and distant
people are coming here in vast
colonies to supply the wants of q
land favored beyond all others in
soil, climate and production, and
vet crying aloud for the labor to
evoke its wealth. 1t is bootless
now to say that we should have
preferred the black labor we have
been accustomed to. Radical
politics and carpet-bag interests
have rendered that kind of labor
almost useless. They have con
verted hordes of this class into
idlers and cumberers Of the
ground, consuming the food of
life and producing nothing. These
same agencies have made politi-
clans, and philosophers, and
preachers, and gentlemen and
ladies' of thousands of others,
and thus stuck their heads full Of
notions too grand to make them
longer fit for usefulness in the only
spheres to which their intelligence
and training are equal. More
than this, Radical politics and
carpet-bag teachings have put
strife between the white employers
and the masses of the blacks who
can only live by employment
They have taught them to dis
trust their old masters; they have
made tools of them to vote away
the political rights and to disfran-
ehise and humiliate their old
masters. Now, colored men, look
this Chinese inroad in the face,
and SEES what is going to be its eff |
feets upon you. You will find in
it the fulfllment of a judgement |
upon you-so sudden, startling
and unexpected that it almost |
looks as If God had sent it to pun |
ish you for giving up your hearts
and your votes to strangers, to- |
make war on the people among
whom you have been born and
reared, Will yon still stand stu.
pldly by your earpet-bag advisers,
who have brought you face to face
with the alternative of starvation
where you were born, or renew
al TO some other country where
you can earn your bread? The
Cinnamon works harder and more I
cheaply than you do, or can, and |
the best and cheapest labor must
command the market. And if
you are forced out of the land by
this cheaper labor, where will you
lind a resting, place and home
better suited TO your natm es and
your habits than the South? Like
the Indian i'll your necessities, you
will not be like him in your re
sources. The wild forests and
the boundless prairieS are his nat
ural home, and he has receded to
them before the advance of the
white race. To what land underf
the sun can you fly before the adj
vancing waves of Chinese immi-
grafton that have already began
to break on the Pacific COAST
Your false capet- bag friends will
not be able to help You if they i
would, when your 9'fear cometh. y
Having squeezed y3u dry of your
votes, and used you up in their
service, they will turn you out
hgc a wornout horse to die. Nor
viii they be able to help you if
their grasping, greedy, and selfish
natures would permit it. They
win have no further use for stary-
Ing black men who have to be
supported, and who can no longer
% bied of their hard earned dimes
TO support ssloyal newspaners,, and