The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1875-05-20
Expectation of the NegrO-The Radical New
Departure.

We noticed week or two since in these
columns pamphlet published by Mr.. Alexan-
der Murray, of Griffin, Georgia. Federal
Office. holder and a supporter of Gen. Grant
in which the writer contended that separa-
tior of the races would be Of advantage to the
whites, and pledged himself to advocate Grants
election for q third term provided he would favor
the expectation of the negro race from the
United States. Mr.. Murray enforced his ex
portation policy with arguments and facts of
character that showed he was terribly in ear
nest in his desire to get rid Of the negro, whose
presence here is, according to his view, oper-
ating as a practical bar to white immigra-
ton South, thus depriving the whole Union of
the wealth which would result from full and
economical cultivation of cotton, tobacco, rice
and sugar cane In support of his theory he
also adduced some startling mortuary statistics,
showing by the death per cent. that the negro
race was rapidly approaching extinction,
which could only be prevented by removing
him from contact with the superior white race.
The views of Mr.. Murray, which were first
received by the Radical press at the North
with denunciatons, appear now to have attrac-
ted attention and sympathy in an unexpected
quarter. A Washington correspondent of the
St. Louis Globe announces that schemes are
on foot at Washington looking to the colonial
ton of the negro, on the ground that he has
not sufficient ambition in his present stand
ing in the country to distinguish himself, and
will suffer extinction if he remains here.
Leading men, it is said, are privately confer
ring together az TO the best means whereby
this object can be accomplished, and colonial
ton societies are to be organized to assist Sam
bo to emigrate to ''San Domingo, Cuba, and
other Southern countries" The correspondent
says:
on in this humanitarian undertaking, not be-
cause of any promises or expressions lately
made, but for the reason that he has stated to
certain individuals that his chief purpose in
urging the purchase of San Domingo was to
enable this government to throw the island
States This movement has now assumed
shape, and is expected to meet with hearty
endorsement and salutary success"
Commenting on the statement of the GtoGc's
correspondent, the Mobile Register says: ave
may therefore conclude that the Republicans,
having exhausted their efforts to build up
party in the Southern States by arraying the
negroes against the whites, are now casting
about 10 see whether they cannot retrieve their
lost fortunes by arraying the whites against
the negroes. 1t is very probable that President
Grant may lend himself to this new scheme,
Just as he lent himself to the recognition of
Coke, in Texas, and Baxter, in Arkansas, un-
der the plan of Mosby, Stephenson & Co. He
can lose nothing, and may probably gain some
thing by advocating any scheme presented to
him. 1t is sad to reflect that only ten years
ago the negro was declared to be 9the ward Of
the nation" and now the unnatural guardian
is considering the propriety of banishing the
ward to his native Africa or the isles of the
sea. Truly, Eepubics are ungrateful 1t re-
mains for the white people of the South to
protect the negro from this new scheme, which,
under the pretence of saving him from extinc-
ton, will subject him to the benign patronage
of the humanitarians whose monuments exist
all over the South in the shape of empty
Ereedman's Banks."-.SavannGh NsWs.