The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-07-21
EXODUS TO AFRICA.
The South Carolina Negroes Proposing to
Leave for their Native land.
From the Now YORK SGn.

Leave Tor tbgIf NatlNe ..Hni.
From the New York Sun
| CHARLESTON, July 10-Thc negroes are
alive at present with anticipa:ons of return
! to their ancestral jungles, Eyer since the last
election the popular sentiment among them
has been in favor of an exodus to Africa.
/ Here lately, the sentiment has taken definite
shape, and organized efforts are being made
to obtain assistance from the Liberian and
American governments to assist in furnishing
vessels to transport the emigrants. An agen'
cy has been established in this city purport-
ing 10 be a branch of the Colonization society
of Philadelphia, at which the emigrants en-
roll themselves and pay their fees TO detray
preliminary expenses. Some Of the COlored
churches have taken up the matter, and in
every one Of them every member has slgnifed
his or her attention to accompany their pas.
tor. Every idle negro is loud in his assertion,
i am Cwine on de fust ship which starts
On the 4th Of July the negroes held mass
meeting On the Battery green in this city for
the propagation OF their emigration policy
There were from ten to fifteen thousand col
orcd persons in attendance. Every speaker
who addressed them spoke !avorably OF the
exodus except white missionary from y eT-
mont, who was scarcely allowed to proceed
after he was found to dissent from the popu.
lar idea. The meeting determined to adopt
the old Jewish precedent, and send Two men
to spy out the land Accordingly an assess
ment of q nlcklc was levied upon each poll
for that purpose, and collected on the spot.
The Battery is a beautiful spot, covered
with grass and regularly shaded by oak trees
O9er the heads of the nations wards Heated
the beautiful flag of the Union. On the green
sward they were gathered III groups Of one or
a,-gN tI,nir MACMILLAN dun n
of "Tula, Lula Lu." They were so intent on
this enjoyment that they paid little attention
to the speakers, except to throw in the nickle,
and thus confirm their readiness for the ex
petition. AS stroled among these crowds
of happy beings | could not refrain from
asking a sedate old negro us not this better
than Liberia" The old man answered, Boss
dis is berry nice, but de say we must 90 back
to our peoples home
The propagandists tell the negroes that AT.
RIGA has a golden shore, upon whose beach
old ocean daily throws the golden sands she
digs from tie deep sea. Diamonds are said to
pave the rIvulets. Bread grows on the trees
Meat rms wild IN the woods, and one elephant
will suffice whole family for year. Mon
KEYS nurse the babies while the mother rides
in golden chariot drawn by white ostriches.
The less credulous and more industrious
people are told that cotton and rice grow
without replanting, so that two crops are
gathered each year; that coffee IS perennial,
and only requires picking and sacElng. and
that in few years they will all be as rich as
their old masters were before the war.
The most intelligent are appealed to upon
social principles They are told they may
stay among the white people thousand years
AMI they never will be anything more than
"rrgcfs," and If they 60 TO Africa among
their own people and remain there their SUI
p.rior intelligence will soon give them place
ard position in their iatherland; they will
be kings and queens, lords and ladies', among
apeople whom they will elevate by their as
ISOLATION
Mai. Delany, the first black field officer Of
tie late war, who has explored a considerable
portion Of the promised land, takes philo-
sOphIcal view Of the matter. lie says he be-
gins 10 realize that slavery was Il great clvillz-
ling process to the African race; that they
were brought 20 America, christianized in
bondage. aad are now able TO return and
lchrisi.snizn the old folks at home. lie sees
trouble IN Tie fact that those who are most
willing TO 20 now are those who are unable
to communicate either moral or religious
culture to the Africans, and he thinks those
who are able so to do will likely desire to re-
main IN this state. He tayors a partial emf
grafton Ga superior 4uitl.IEtuCC, 81 lidt 'hC
pioneers may become Practical missionaries
Aficrward lie thinks generous exodus may
be effected.
Nv own experience among the coloreG peo'
pie leads me 10 believe that the most inteiil-
gent are those who are most in earnest about
going The mulattoes particularly seem
anxious 20 return 20 the land of their fore
fathers" They ore cui off IRON all social
aspratloSs in America, and now that political
preterment with its compulsory social recog-
milton Is closed against them by The surrender
OF the negro party IN The late elections, they
yearn for other field, IN which to pasture.
Some CT them, who are properiy.holders, an
ticipa'e selling tlCir property ana joining
the expedition.
The whites look on with different ideas as
10 the effect Of an exodus. Most Of them qui-
city say. Better let them 90, and then the
country Will I'LL 10 with white people, and
the old state vii. commence a new lease OF
life" S0me, however, cannot see how they
are going 10 &c; along without negro labor,
aud many o; ;ueu. who yet look on their old
slaves as foster children, cannot bear the idea
of parting with them to return to barbarism.