Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-10-04

OFF FOR AFRICA.
The Great Negro Exodus. Liberia to be Pop.
ulated in About Fifteen Minutes.
The New York World publishes the follow
ing letter:
The remarkable movement which is now
taking place among the freedmen in the South
cannot he lightly regarded by far-seeing men,
nor retarded by Aippant and ignorant criti'
cism. This movement has not been stimula.
ted by outside influences, but has originated
among the freedmen themselves. The great
cause of African colonization has for years
been languishing, and the general public sen.
timent has been that its work was done. But
a few who studied the origin and principles
of the colonization scheme in this country
have, with unfaltering faith, kept intact the
machinery of the American Colonization So
ciety and it's auxiliaries, believing that the
time would come when public opinion would
again demand vigorous prosecution of this
work. The present organized movements of
the freedmen toward Liberia point to that
time as almost present, and to question which
may shortly become great national one.
There has recently been formed in Charleston,
s. c., society called the "Liberian Exodus
Association" with Rev. B. F. Porter, pastor
of church in that city, as President, and
George Curtis, Secretary.
The leading object of the association is to
obtain means for emigration to Liberia. Un-
der its auspices large public meetings have
been held and effectively addressed by the
President and Others The President has also
addressed letter to VIM. M. Evarts in its
behalf, which received prompt and courte-
GUS reply. In recent letter to friend in
New York he says: "The people are desirous
of going to Africa at the earliest practicable
moment. Over $4,000 have signifed their
desire to be transported to Liberia"
A similar association has been formed in
North Carolina under the name Of the "North
Carolina Freedmen's Emigration Aid Socie.
ty," with Robert Orr, President, and Sherwood
Capps, Secretary. Mr.. Capps is beneficiary
of the Shaw University at Raleigh, where he
has been supported over eight years by the
kind offerings of two friends. Having thus
acquired an education, he is in haste to get to
Liberia as his adopted home and field of USE
fulness and, not satisfied with going himself,
be has done what he could by personal inter.
course, public addresses, and the distribution
of printed matter, to awaken the spirit of en-
igration in others. Nor has he labored in
vain. In recent letter he reports ffty-one
persons mostly in families-as applicants for
a passage to Liberia this autumn, giving their
names, ages, occupations, and church connec-
tions. And so anxious are they to 60 that
they offer contributions for the purpose,
amounting in the aggregate to $1,105. In
other States like spirit is manifested, and
throughout the country the colored people are
moved by spirit of emigration as never be-
fore. An appeal comes from Selma, Ala,
saying: Zone thousand persons here want to
60. We are willing to pay all We have to get
away" A white Presbyterian missionary to
the freedmen writes: II will be very greatly
obliged if you will send me pamphlets, circu-
lars, or documents relating to emigration to
Liberia. This region is now very much agi.
tated with the subject, and would be glad to
obtain the facts in the case for the benefit Of
the multitude of colored people around me. I
would be glad also to know whether the move
ment in Charleston, of which Rev. B. F. Por.
ter is the head, is in any way connected with
the American Colonization Society, and is ap-
proved and endorsed by the society? Also
whether, if 1 should find small NUMBER
dozen or less-in this region, really worthy
and deserving men, who would be useful any
where, and could obtain best testimonials Of
their fitness, desirous of going to Africa, you
would be able to send them to Liberia in the
course of the coming yearr 1t is not neces-
sary to multiply extracts from letters and ap-
peals at hand to show that the prophetic ut
terances of great and good men are in stri.
king manner being fulfilled. The practical
question for the Christian philanthropist to
decide is, what is our duty in regard to these
plain indications of Providence?
From consideration of these facts, and
many others of like nature which might be
given, we conclude that this mighty question
will soon force itself upon the attention of our
national government, and the part Of true
statesman is to take it in its inception and
control the movement, 80 far as it is possible
to control matter that has it origin in the
yearning desire ola race for higher social and
political liberty. And is it not time for our
philanthropists to revise their opinions in re.
gard to this question of African colonization ?
We have all the machinery necessary for send.
ing out all who are willing to go. From the
thousands who are anxious to 60 we can pick
our men we can send them to high and
healthy country in the eastern part Of Libe-
ria, and thus the way will be prepared for
that great exodus, the symptoms of which are
becoming more distinct every day. The duty
of the present hour, while this mighty tide is
rising, is to hold fast and literally support the
institutions which we now have. What the
demands ofthe future will be, when hundreds
of thousands are appealing for help to return
to the lands oftheir fathers, carrying the twin
blessing of Christianity and civilization, it is
not hard to imagine. Let US, then, hold fast
to what we have, and increase the efficiency of
the instruments We now possess.
S. D. ALEXANDER,
President of the New York Colonization So
ciety.
SOUTHWARK THE STAR OF EMPIRE.
Ben Hill says that the next President of
the United States will not only be the candi.
date of the Democratic party, but that the
South will elect him with the assistance Of
only forty.seven Northern electoral votes
the South furnishing the balance of the one
hundred and eighty-five required to elect.