The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-10-09
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Recent advloe6 slate that Influential
citizens OF ArkRnsna, weary Of the So
cial REORGANIZATION which prevails
there, aud hopeless Of remedying II la
the present generation, ure leaving
that state for Colorado. They are sub
stantlal men, some Of them Investing
M much ~ ton To illleen thousand
dollars IN their new homes. A Wash.
ington dispatch Of last week reported
the reception NJ the national capital OF
a petition signed by over one thousand
colored men, praying the government
70 take them away from Louisiana,
aud save them from destruction, by
placing them, like the Indians, on u
reservation.
These lncts are indications OF per-
haps the most terrible punishment the
south has vet suffered but one which
IL extremely probable, The entire de-
pletion of tho south of It's better classes
OF black aud white h u possibility
within our years. The natural instinct
OF individual preservation Will lead the
thinking aud more energetic classes Of
the community TO abandon u hopeless
struggle with Internal anarchy and
lawlessness, and seek homes and peace
and prosperity whore those things do
exist and hold out their tempting
! promise.
Perhaps, after all, this will he the
most successful solutlon-drcadful Az
II IL 10 contemplate--for the southern
problem. The anarchy, prostration,
and decentralization of tho southern
states Is not political. IL lies deeper.
II IL u social condition, and therefore
more difficult and dangerous TO treat.
Some Of the state governments Of the
south nre controlled 10y black people
some by white some by cnrpetbnggers;
some 10y native southerners; some by
democratic, some 10y republican fac
tions but all alike are inefficient, sub
versive 10 good order, unable TO protect
life and property, and all alike are
charged with corruption. Louisiana,
the personnel of whose local govern
ment IL carpetbag aud black, including
however, n lieutenant general OF the
confederate army South Carolina with
its colored Legislature, and governor
and chief Justice of one Of the old
southern families, whose boast IL Is
that they fired the first parrlcidal shot
at Sumter; Kentucky with n continu-
GUS native white administration; Geor-
gia and Alabama with their demo-
cratic governments; Arkansas with n
democratic governor held in power by
federal bayonets, and Louisiana with a
republican governor held In power by
federal bayonets---all are equally pow
erless to enforce their own laws orpro-
tect their own citizens from domestic
vioence-all are alike distracted, dis
organized, and, five believe the re.
ports of the unfortunate jewellers in
those states, corrupt.
Evidently the trouble here is some
thing deeper and more radical than POI
litical differences. 1t Is probably the
social evil of slavery working out its
own fulfillment according to the I'M
changeable and memorable laws of
nature, as all evils, social and otherwise,
do work themselves out. Slavery now
avenges itself on the body polite, once
prostituted by il and through it, just as
drunkenness or licentlousness by the
natural working out of their own law
will avenge themselves on the human
body.
This seems to be the frightful fate Of
the south, from which individuals can
only save themselves by abandoning
the soil, Dreadful as may sound this
statement of facts, the process has
been regularly going on for some time.
Texas has been peopled bya migra-
ton from the gulf states. Ex-confed-
crate soldiers are almost dominant in
in certain sections of southern Color
ado. Kansas has oil along enjoyed q
Steady influx from Missouri and Ar
kansas, and many of the Weather dis
contented southerners have sought an
eNile,s home in Mexico or South Amer
lea.
This voluntary migration may be the
best and speediest solution Of the
southern complication, and If 1T Is,
perhaps the end is nearer and clearer
than we see. The guiltless individual
leaves the field, and the law works out
Its penalty ON a guilty social state
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