The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1874-01-18

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pssgrofis Jshaaft q 1874
The lue autumn and The prescott
winter, ~ fsr have, N sono fesrrcls
been remarkable there iss been q
great deal of cluJy weather but very
little fall u rain even when II has
fuincd The rivers lave been oousu
ally low for the season Of The ycar.
The win er Of 1864 and 90 vas very
much like the present ~ The small.
ness Of lao rain fall, yet tho year 90
was q very fair crop year.
The negroes arc slill quitting Ala
bama Ny hundreds to perish 10 the
malorious swamps Of the Mississippi.
This exodus Of the negroes 3 siegu
lar as we'll as wonderful That II IL
mainly a downright dclusion, no sane
person can doubt for a moment. II II
true that a portion Of the negroes
we're forced by the direst necessity TO
quit Alabama. yet thousands that had
good homes have hurried of in hot
test haste to the promised Land" Of
acgrodom. The philosopher Who de-
lights to trace effects to their causes
and to pry narrowly into the motives
that impel large bodies of men, will
ask what has occasloned this sudden
md wholesale exodus of the negroes.
1t is unprecedented in the annals 0
modern history. The Irish in migra.
ion into this country was the effort
IF a starving and dease population,
'orely vexed by governmental tyran-
~ and espionage, and irritated and
naddened by the impossibility of &C
luiring in fee the least patch of land,
find work at remuherative prices,
and to acquire homcsteads, where
they could sit down undE their own
vine and fig tree, with non TO vex
and make them afraid" The negroes
are not flying from Tyranny and op'
preston as the Irish did, as they en-
JOY their rights in Alabama as fully
as they are likely to do in Mississippi,
and are largely in preponderance over
the whites in the counties from WHICH
they have chichyLcc. They have
negroc5in the Legislature from Per-
ry, Marengo and Dallas.
Rumor says some negro preachers
are at the bottom of this Wholesale
exodus, and that they give out that
it is the will Of God that the negroes
should remove to Mississippi, and that
The failures ia the crop of 1871, To
we're intended to compel obedience to
he Divine beh.ests, and that these
crop failures would continue 81 long
rs they refused to obey the Divine be-
nest. This may be go.
Ny own explanation Of the matter
s this: that the negroes are doubly
Is g~regarious as the whites-they
nate retiren cnt aud solitude aud love
and crowds above all
they are credulous, and gulp
Town all the Zig tales they are told
IF the magical fruitfulhess of Missis-
'ippi, and they are proverbially easily
naamed and excited. Their attach.
ncnt to particular localities is so
weak as to be hardly d%iscernible, and
moreover, they are as fond of change
md travel as children are know to
De. These seem to me to be the no
ives for the present exodus, and these
same motives will inpel them to at
,empt TO return here after the SPLEEN
lid air castles they are building in
Mississippi shall have tumbled down.
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