New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1874-07-23
Ouirngfs Against Us and the Rem.
Cdy for them.

suodue him by less summary measures.
Successful resistance on the part of single
slave carried with it the dangers of a general
revolt among his fellows who might be en-
boldened by his example. And the under
valuation of negro life soon begot a low esti-
mate of all human life. 1t became as natural
thing for a slave-Owner to kill white
abolitionist as to destroy a colored man when
attempting to emancipate himself from the
yoke of bondage. Nor did the passion for
the destruction of human life end here.
LitigatiOns in court had often to be settled
at last by the bowie-knife Or the pistol, and
neighbOrhoodi embroglios were crystalzed
into domestic feuds, which decimated the
male members of powerful families on both
sides.
What wonder, then, that to-day in Ten
nessee and Georgia, in Virginia and North
Carolina we should hear of frequent and
cOld-bloOded murders committed upon colored
men who are opposed in politics to the
murderers: Only week before last, four
colored men who were interested in getting
up military company IN Georgia were
arrested in one town, ostensibly to be carried
to another town for trial, and while on their
enforced journey, were taken into the woods
and shot TO death-every one of them. This
| is no isolated case ; every week such reports
| of outrage reach us from these unrcpentent
rebel States.
1t would seem that the United States
| troops, the United States civil officers, and
even the United States District Courts are
powcrless or unwilling to protect our people
against these unprovOked murders. As a
! rule the colOred people are unarmcd-the
| white stOrekeepers refuse to sell them arms
and ammunition, or deny the negroes leave of
absence, upon pain of dismissal from the
plantation, to gO.to town to buy the means of
self-protection.
Under such circumstances, what is to be
done: We think the remedy is very simple.
and easily attained. Let the colored people
leare those States IN which they are minority,
majority.
The States of South Carolina, Mississippi,
Louisiana, Arkansas and Florida are all
anxious for emigrants. There are public
lands to be had in all Of them, cheap, and
in Louisiana, Arkansas and Florida ii will
require but a few thousand more colorcd voters
to control the results of popular political
elections whereby the colored people can
make and enforce laws for their own protec-
ton. We trust that none OF oVr people will
hesitate upoa a matter OF such. supreme
importance 10 th"nsFslYes and t3aen postcrity.
No thAs n f't,y-neaf - 'aNation In
South Carolina, no report abc,at the poverty
, OF Mississippi, no rumor about the unsettled
condition of Louisiana, MI prevent the
colored people from moving at once from the
States where they have no political power,
no legal protection, and no friends, even
among those whites who agree with them in
politics because they have no means of ward
ing Of these murderers and assassins.
1t is useless to hope TO live down this spirit
of hate. Every time rebel sees negro, he
is reminded that the United States snatched
him as a victim from the mercenary grasp of
a STAKEHOLDER. He is made to feel that the
negro carries with him the right to vote, and
that every ballot the negro casts is rebukc
to the spirit of hate and Of murder which the
ey-rebel cherishes in his bosom. The voting
negro is an evidence If the Shareholders
defeat tn the plantation, aud so the white
rebel seeks his revenge whenever the oppor-
trniiy occurs. The negro is nowhere safe in
the South unless he Possesses the means of
self protection at the ballot box by over
,1,,,t, IL,
where he himself may be II juror, a lawyer
or il judge. Let not the charm of higher
wages bind him to locality where coored
schools are hated, were military companies
are frownch Gown and where the ballot is
REGARDED rs a nuisance in the hands of the
negro.
4 change Of residence may entail some
har,lships, but in the nature of things these
har,lships will be of short duration and the
benefits to come after them will be of Il con-
tinuous nature.
Let our wisest and most earnest men in
these negotiating and accommodating
States, get together and form some feasible
plan of immigration and begin at once to put
the plan into execution. Above all let
colored men manage them. If our white
friends Of the North desire to help in such
an enterprise let them help hy all means,
but let c"lored men keep the leading strings
in their own hands. These OutraGes have
reached Il degree Of frequency and atrocity
which call for an immediate remedy and the
remedy we have pointed out seems to us the
only one. We hope to hear at the earliest
possible date that the good work has begun.
EsS- There is no longer any use in trying
to convince the political Bourbon the world