New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1874-06-04

The determined disposition to withhold
from the negro the equal protection Of the
law evinced by Southern and Northern men,
bers Of Congress, Democrats and few Re-
publicans, forces the question upon the
negro as TO what should be his next step for
protection. In those States, given up to the
control Of the Bourbon Democracy, the equal
protection of the laws will for years to come
be denied the negro, unless enforced by
national authority. The length to which
disrespect of the rights Of the negro will 60
will correspond with the lack of progress he
will make, or can possibly make, under the
the circumstances. The very evident de-
sign Of the white people of Georgia to keep
the negro in Il degraded position, has
prompted many of its colored labOrers to
leave the State and seek homes where their
the negroes in search of freedom has, in GER
tain parts of the State, seriously affected the
planters interests. This is as it should be !;
the tyrants of Georgia being too lazy to work
themselves, should be made to feel that in
order to have others work for them the re-
spect due freemen, and not the barbarOus
discipline of slavery, must be shown the
laborer. The penalty enforced against tl.c
denial of equality before the law, in Southern
States, should be the abandonment of those
States by the colOred laborer, upon whom the
the agricultural interest depends for success
In this abandonment, let the colored people
turn their attention to those States in whirI,
cheap and fertile soil awaits them. There
is no reason in the world why the cOlorcd
people of Georgia should remain in thu,
State and suffer under the degrading attitude
of the whites towards them. AS with
Georgia, so with the other late slave States,
in which the tendency is to keep the negro
in his place." and that place degraded one.
1t is not just to the growing generation of
our race in this country to be compelled to
grow up under the influence Of an adulterat-
ed freedom. In those States where the run
mad pride of late Shareholders makes it i'm
possible for a negro to purchase home, the
black man must ever continue. to be an I'M
derling, and his children will inherit the
the same condition. On the other hand,
should our people migrate to those States
and Territories in which the public land is
not only cheap, but really desirable for
agricultural and mineral purposes, they can
establish themselves and become their own
masters and prosper. In such a condition
independence Of thought, as well as of lnde-
pendence of action will result, aud root out
that training which leads to Obseqousness
and consequent degradation unavoidable in
those communities in which the rebel element
holds sway.
Leave the enemies Of freedom to their self
running hate. The black mans duty is to
make the re,y best of his freedom and of his
citizenship. If the white people of a few of
the States are willfully blind to justice, let
that blindness lead them into the ditch the
negro has gone as far as he should go-and
at his own electromagnetic save an nngrate-
full and tyrannical people from utter ruin.
The idea that the negro in the South is de-
pendent, needing and receiving the kind care
Of the whites, should be exploded by giving
the truth hearing. Remove the large COL
Ored population from Georgia before the |
coming August or September, and it would |
be found that the cry for help would come |
from the white people of that State. Their
cotton crop would be ruined, and distress
would occupy the place of the outraged me-
groes.
The State or community that not only |
welcomes, but deals justly by, the negro 10 !