Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-12-31
Hoes with Legs.


Hoes with Legs.
The trouble at the South Is that
the hoe has got legs. If 1t IL not
treated as fifteenth amendment
should be treated, 1t gets up and
leaves. Those beings Economically
called "niggers," who used to be con-
sidered mere animated hoes by the
other class OF persons now called by
telegraph agents "the citizens"
have acquired, under the Constitution
OF the United States, the right to go
somewhere II they please. They do
90 somewhere, when they are not
satisfied in Georgia, and hence pro-
pose to migrate in body to some
other Mississippi for example.
A great many Of them fearing that
the body may not move fast enough
for their taste, have gone rs individu-
ais. Whittier, nobody knows. There
is no longer vigilance committee to
look into trains that may have ami
mated hoes on board. Only 1t up.
pears that the roads westward from
Gorgia are sharply competing, Offer
ing low rates for second-clas passen-
gers, and they are doing a heavy
business, with second class cars.
Yes, times have changed. The
animated hoe, In the good old days
that are gone, was not permitted to
go loft the place" without permit.
The absent hoe was looked for with
dogs. or course, under these circum-
stances, the question of treatment
never arose. TO keep the hoe in fair
working condition-that was the only
requisite. Pleasant times, those, for
people who liked hoeing. But now
the hoe has legs, and may go where
1t likes. Also 1t has civil rights
though what It should want with at
tributes OF that sort no one Of "the
citizens" can understand. And 1t
votes, and occasionally Is elected to
Office. This, of course, Is a mockery,
All outrage, and All insult to "the citi-
zens," who have by nature and by
"the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES" an ex-
elusive monopoly Of all those inalien-
able rights aud that equality with
which nature and the Creator endow-
ed /" all men," But, hideous insult
though it be, we see 1t offered day
after day. And II, AZ in Georgia,
1.-THE citizens" cOntrive to regain
their monopoly, and to leave "all
men" except themselves out in the
cold, then the animated hoes meet in
convention and resolve to migrate.
Next season there will be shrieks
from Georgia about the scarcity Of
labor" and a million more acres will
cease to yield, and the State will
take another slide back toward bar
barism. Why do not "the citizens"
cultivate the acres themselves? In
the first place they cannot and then,
they are not hoes. They are "the
superior race"
One Of the misfortunes OF the supe-
rior race Is that II eats. One cannot
live or support family solely by
denying rights to the other people,
even to animated hoes. Georgia IL in
a fair way to learn that the Guilt
walton Of the earth IL desirable In
order to support life, and that human
beings, are useful In the cultivation
OF the earth. 1t seems little curious
10 US at this distance, that Georgia
should have these simple things to
learn at SO late q day. But Georgia
learns so slowlyl
One other thing Georgia must learn
or be depopulated. II 10 this that
human beings will have to be treated
like human beings, or they will mi
CRATE. The useful colored person,
whose service In the cultivation OF
the earth has been the basis Of what
ever civilization Georgia enjoys,
has been awakened to the fact that
as a human being he is entitled to
some things which were formerly de-
MED. If Georgia wishes to continue
to deny those things, the useful col
ored persons will retire. and Georgia
aristocracy may feed itself II 1t can.
White persons of the laborlng de-
scription Georgia will not get. Az
the Irishman said, on his return from
the South the other day, "they are
shooting a great deal ton carless down
there. "-,N Louis Democrat.