Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-10-31

were willing, aud the government
consented, il would cost the nation
eight hundred millions OF dollars Il
move four millions of pauper people
and ration them for six months at two
hundred dollars q head, a very lOH
| estimate. But let us view the other
side. The citizens Of South CaroliRa.
/ Mississippi and Louisiana (Whites)
are under the ban and on the decay.
Their citizens are already leaving as
fast as they can All would leave il
they could go by families, churches
and villages. Then let the govern
ment purchase the real estate accord
ing to assessment on record of 1870
and 1872, payable IN bonds at twenty
or thirty years at five per cent. inter
est. These bonds would easily change
to greenbacks in the hands of the peO-
pie. Let these bonds be receivable
in land Offices in all parts of the na-
tion for public lands. Let two or
three years be granted for consumma-
ton Of the plan. Then let govern
ment grant transportation TO such
citizens to any part desired, with pru-
dent limitation and restrictions. The
statistics show that the real estate IN
the three states named amounts to
only three hundred million dollars.
Transportation and other expenses
might be fifty million dollars. Then
three hundred aud fifty million dol
lars would be the aggregate cost to
the governments, less than ten years
military rule In thnsa states would
cost. Then let the reconstruction
power assumed by congress work in
this wise. Let a law be passed that
no white man (the plan Wouid work
nearly as Yell without the disfanchis-
ing clause) should not vote OF hold
office (pohtical) IN these three states.
DE might in county aud civil offices
Separate the races politicaar,- -4aa
you have solved the problem, with
facilities of equal character for a vol
untary separation. Let pay for es-
tate and transportation be granted TO
negroes in other states who might
choose to move TO these states. Let
the law be that no negro should vote
or hold political Office IN other states.
You see at q glance the result. We
would then have Gen. Grants wish
answered. We would have peace.
Parties choosing to remain, white
or black, would be under pro-
lection of law IN all civil rights.
Large cities, such as Charleston, New
Orleans and others of twenty thou
sand inhabitants, more or less, might
be governed by laws special as Wash
ington City is. Three years after the
passage of such law, would find all
the whites moved, most happy, by
families, churches and villages, and
prospering on the public domains
west. Men having no real estate, be-
ing granted transportation, would go.
most willingly Of all. The political
negroes of other States would go
home Immediately by the laws of COM
mon affinity. Quiet negroes in other
States, and their name is legion, sat
isfied with protection under the law,
and confiding in their old neighbors
as they now do, would be useful mem
bers of society. The government
might then proceed to resell these
lands to thenegroes on easy terms, or
to colonies from northern or European
States, and prosperity might once
morsb be seen, with peace amongst the
races, and money refunded to the gov
ernmeut before bonds we're due.
Most Respectfully,
CoRINTH, Miss. JUNIUS.