The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-02-02
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MON me ". T. Tribunt.
Tbere is a bump, or, To speak more respect
f,Ilv UAn organ, - iu the Genealogical scheme,
which. when it is particularly protubsrant,
,naltes traveller and exile nOnesck. Black
foIlx whether beasts not, have brains
ovactlv like light-cOl0red beings, ana however
thick the African skull may be, the 'organs"
whicb IL encases are quite a5 lively as if the
cbeeks below them were OF the purest white
md the most brilliant :armine. In the pllmy
Javs of the patriarobs, the most potent threat
Itch could be employed TO keep a Virgnian
w MARYLAND chattel dOcile, was TO sell him
10 90 further South; and we know very Well
that too often, under pecunlary pressure, this
,nethod of raising ready money was resorted
70 IL is not strangs, considering this, aud
,noreover that Texas is a State founded by
emiprapts that we find there a
crsst mauy freedmen who were born
Sn Tennessee, kentucky, or upon the
Eastern geaboar1-or rather we should have
fonnd them there little while ago-fOT now
~ anoears that ''thsy are returning 10 the
S,stas from which they we're originally brought
bv t6e slave dealers" Being At liberty to do
40 tb-y are carrying themselves back to The
1Iaoes Of their nativity. Texas, all cOnsidsra-
ttions of feeling apart, is not just the State in
which a black man would desire to live. TIE
Caucasisus Of those parts do not govern their
passions with absolute sway; they hud 1t
difficult 20 foIego their accustomed luxury on
shooting, hogging, and hanging "niggers,
and q stampede of those who are exposed 10
these bland attentions seems TO us to be the
most natural thing in the world. An im-
mediate consequence is that labor IS
scarce" " and in some parts OF the state
"plapters cannot get help to carry on their
farms" 1t is difficult il not impossible, TO
determine by any general rule whether the
blacks in leaving Texas are acting wisely or
not; but we can readily understand tha' III
certain localities the negro is not safe from
extreme violence any more than he is sure OF
fair wages and ths prompt payment even OF
the low wages agreed upon. Finding himself
thus situated, the sooner ne leaves for more
propitious parts the better; aud now that he
can leave, we may bs sure that he will,
unless he is persuaded to remain by good
treatment and equitable compensation for his
labor. II the planters of Texas can afford TO
ignore the emancipation altogether, and drive
away the labor which alone can make their
land of the least value, th-y must be good
deal richer than We usually supposed them
to be.
These statements in regard to the emigra-
tion from Texas remind us OF the chronic
fear in some Northern States OF dispropor-
tionate incursion of blacks. Certain of our
neighbors have always assumed that emanci-
patton would be- followed by the general flight
of the freedmen to the North; and various
measures have been suggested, and in some
cases actually taken, 10 keep the colored
people where, it is asserted, 'they belong"
The inhabitive instinct OF the black has not
been taken into the account at all. His pre-
ference for warmer climate than ours tho
Croakers have been altogether too nervous to
consider. Assuming that he would prefer
woOd-sawipg at low wages to the cultivation
OF cotton and tobacco tor wages considerably
higher, and arguing that the demand for wood
sawyers and boOtblacks is limited, the unoom-
Portable conclusion has been reached that we
shall have an immense snass OF black paupers
to support in idleness. Now, considering
that the freedman, il he is equitably treated
there, can have no motive whatever for leav-
ing his old home, it is curious that those who
profess the most profound adherence of the
race, and the greatest fear lest it should over
run the Northern States, are perpetuslly find
ing fault with every project for rendering the
negro cOntented, busy, and prosperous at the
South, "where he belODgs," where his labor is
in demand and where he can add more than
in any other section to the general production
OF the country. If these wretched victims of
negrophobia have no consciences3 to be
awakened; if there is 10 1leshly spot in their
obdurate hearts; if nothing but selfinterest
and shows OF humanity, then we appeal to
their sel6shness, their prejudice, and their
hatred, and we ask their cooperation,
however base may be their motives in
making the Southern States such an
abiding-place that the negro will not
care to leave it. We think especially that the
members of the Democratic party have earned
(no matter how the right to advise their
Southern brethren" and to exhort them to
Keep their freedmen at home by rendering
that home pleasant aud desirable. No statute
torbidding tha passage Of the black from one
state to another is possible. He must be left
to the motives and the influences which always
govern human nature. H must be free to
select his own domioile, aud, while he lawfully
demeans himself, he must have the full pro
lection OF the law. Only when all other
Things are thus rendered equal will he
be truly at liberty to follow his own natural
tastes and impulses. 1t is, we think, IN
the power OF the Democratic party to give to
Hs quondam allies the best possible advice
and 10 remind them that the agricultural
prosperity OF the South is matter altogether
out OF the question, and something not to be
reasonably anticipated, if those who are mos
familiar with Southern labor are to be driver
by bad treatment frem the plantations Il
work under great difficulties at the West OF
TO crowd into the already Over-crowded cities
plain resolution emb ldying this idea woulC
really sweeten all the other doings of tn
Democratic Convention, and its entertainment
by such body, in our opinion, is demande
by common prudence and by common sense
Republicans will not be listene to; will tn
Democrats speak
General Grant and Political Parties.
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