Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-10-17
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THE AFRIcAEIsED STATES
is TO become of the negro?" This
question is now being asked by prom
inent men in both sections, and some
thing Of a discussion has grown out
of it. We do not know what will be-
come of the blacks in the States
south of us, but we think that we do
know what will become of the whites
in those States, unless there is some
change for the better in their present
condition. On Monday last there
passed through this city from LaFay-
cite county, Miss, five white families
who go to swell the power and resour-
ces of California. They were sub
stantial and independent people, and
we regret their loss to our portion Of
the country. In a conversation with
one of these: emigrants we learned
that the exodus from Mississippi this
fall would be immense. He informed
us that forty families in. Marshall
county would remove to Texas before
Christmas, and that many more would
move up into, Tennessee, Kentucky
and Missouri. Our informant said
that for a long time he had debated in
his own mind whether he would give
up his old home, to seek another
among strangers, or else remain to
fight losing battle with the blacks.
He further said that the whites of
Mississippi would have won in q
struggle with the negro, if the latter
had not been constantly reinforced
from abroad. The disparity was
growing greater day by day, and at
last, heart-sick with hope long defer
red, he had sacrificed his property for
a mere song, and was en- route for the
Pacific slope where the carpet-bagger
could no longer roblhim:nor the freed
man torment him. mississippi, he
said, had become the paradise of
thieves, and he saw no way to avert
the fate that threatened her.,
All this and more the emigrant said
to us, but the above will suffice to
point the moral of this article. Any
one who has read the advertising col
umns of the Wing and Tribune lately,
must have been struck by the number
of cards from former residents of
Mississippi and Alabama. Jackson
has been enriched in this way to a re-
markable degree, and the same is true
of Madison county and the whole of
West Tennessee. Fleeing from intol-
cradle political evils and crucifying
taxation, thousands of the best people
of our neighbor States have found
homes in our midst. This thing will
continue if Tennesseeis true to her.
self. We cannot rejoice at evils like
those which are depopulating Missis-
sippi and Louisiana, even when they
serve TO build up Tennessee, but as
these evils exist, and as we are power
less to correct them, it is our duty as
it is our right to turn them to our
own advantage. To do this we must
preserve white supremacy. There
must be no doubt as to this suprem-
acy, for there are hundreds of thou
sounds of blacks in Missouri and
Kentucky who would flock to our
borders, if it could be made apparent
that the condition of things in the
States south of us was possibility
here. The man who votes for May
nard or Muse, who in any way or to
any dagroa, oo4tributos 20 the per-
petuation of the Radical pacty, is
warning to that degree and in that way
against Tennessee, and against the
whole people of the Southern
States. There can be no peace or
prosperity here unless the blacks
are made to understand that this
state is white, aud that it is to re-
main so forever. The negro viii live
in idleness in the semi-tropical lands
to the South of us. That is what win
become of him, but the whites who
nov own the soil viii be forced to
give it up, unless the control of this
country passes into other hands.