The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-02-27
Negro EniRration.

AS time passes, the fact becomes more
certain every day, that the negro popu-
lation of the Atlantic States is being re-
moved to the West. This movement,
which began in Virginia, is being gra-
dually, but surely, communicated to
North and South Carolina. Some plant
ers of the Southwest having succeeded
in obtaining hands in this section,
others have been encouraged to try in
the same quarter. During the entire
winter. agents from States West of us
have been coming and going, and few
returned to their homes uhaccompanied
by some whom they had hired. We
know, personally, of, several instances of
this kind, and ne see frequent notices of
similar movements elsewhere.
The Charleston papers mention o con-
tract drawn up last week, for number
OF colored laborers to work on large
plantation in Alabama. The Charlotte
Observer says that over 100 negroes have
been hired and moved to Georgia within
the past month, from Meoklenburg
County, North Carolina, and estimates
the whole number of able-bodied colored
men who have left the County at 3O0
There are other facts showing what the
agents of other States are doing in this
work; but we cannot recall them just now.
In addition to the emigration of ne-
groes, the State is also losing by the re-
moval of whites, going West. This
drain upon our population has been
going on for some time, and there is q
very slight immigration to replace the
loss. So far as political result is con-
cerned, the relative position of the black
and white voters has not been materially
affected yet, though the black majority
has probably been somewhat reduced.
But the reduction is likely to 60 on for
several reasons. AS rule, white men
do not move, unless they have some
capital to begin on in their new location.
The negro, on the contrary, is hired rs a
laborer before he leaves the State, and
his expenses are paid by his employer.
The likelihood is thatthe negro-voting
to year, until it disappears. This is a
Legislature. They cannot hope to i'm
decreasing) voting power. Nor have
grafton, 80 long as the main end of their
legislation is to give the coIored popula-
tion every advantage over the whites.
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they are of the most violent negro-loving
school, are not going to settle in State
where the negro element rules. This
fact has been clearly proved since the
war. Why has not South Carolina been
filed up with those abolitionists who talk
80 glibly about negro equality? 1t is
simply because they don't want to enjoy
the blessings of negro rule. The few
who have come, did SO with the hope of
getting, by using an inferior race, that
political power which they could never
dream of getting at home. What one Of
them can point to any distinction he ever
rose to in his native State?
The only alternative left the Legisla
ture. if that body desires to make the
State prosperous, is to legislate so as to
induce white immigration, radicalif they
can; but it must be white, for there is no
other to be had. The mere election of
negro to the Supreme Bench will act as
o powerful check to immigration, espe-
cially "loyal" immigration.
LYorkuiNe Enquirer.
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