The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1878-01-19
THE emleaATloa OF the aEeRo.

| Ever since the war there has been .
decided disposition among the negroe.
to emigrate TO Africa. South America
and the West Indies A committee, a few
lays since, addressed letter 10 Presi-
dent Hayes asking for information and
advice. Mr.. Hayes response is wise
and the negroes viii do well to heed
it. We quote:
u have given some consideration to
your question as to the emigration oi
eoiored people from Florida to San Do.
mingo- | am not well informed as TO
/ the advantages offered by San Domingo
to immigration, but my impression is
that your people should not be hasty
in deciding to leaie this country. The
mere difference in climate is a very
serious objection to removal The first
generation IN all such removals suffer
greatly 1t is my opinion. also that
the evils which now effect you are
likely 10 steadily. and, l hope, rapidly
diminish. My advice is, therefore.
against the proposed emigration
In going to San Domingo the negro
| would encounter all the difficulties
| which strange people, without money.
will always experience in strange
country. surrounded by altered cireum-
stances and new conditions. The ex,
perience of the negroes for the first ten
years after the war was certainly such
as to render them dissatisfied and anxi.
Gus for change. and not very particular
in what that change consisted. They
reasoned that it could not be much
worse.
They were cruelty duped by the adj
venturers who focked south, and who
were here only as mere excressences
and TO accumulate the largest possible
sum of money in the shortest possible
time. The ignorant and newly enfran>
chised negro, whose helpless condition
excited the pity OF all conyersant with
the situation, was ruthle.sly used as
mere stepping stone by which these
bad men mounted to power and
consideration. As soon as thev had
served the purpose, they were kicked
aside, and no more were their wrongs
and sufferings needed. They were
forced into an unnatural antagopism
with the permanent white residents of
the south, and long before either or
both fully comprehended the purpose
or the scoundrelism of the carpet-bag.
ger, they confronted each other in dead.
ly hostility.
Happily Mr.. Hayes accession to pow.
er put an end to carpet>bag ascendan-
cy, since when. better feeling has ex>
isted, and both parties, with the with.
drawai of the disturbing element, have
fallen back into the normal condition of
matua! confidence and respect. and
both have felt that an ineum
bus has been lifted from their
shoulders. The good effects are
already quite observable. The states
are slowly but surely emer ging from the
slough of despond into which the war.
and afterwards reconstruction, plunged
them. The white people, after having
suffered the absolute destruction of
nearly one-half of their property, are
beginning thanks to the wonderful
elasticity of the south and the recuper
atlve powers of the people, are rapidly
regaining their wealth, and the negro is
gradually. ascending TO the position of
citizen and freeman by the surer routes
OF intelligence ana personal responsi.
hility. Their condition now is far su
perior to the laboring classes in any ef
the states north. Who ever heard of a
negro suffering for bread in the south
Who ever heard of negro freezing for
want of fuel And yet nearly every day
brings US from the north its own tale of
just such things as this. and among the
Wanted intelligent workers of the
cities, mills and mines of the opulent
and loFdly east.
Neither San Domingo nor romantic
Africa can present to the freedmen of
the south. soil or climate equal to our
own. The dominant people there are
not bound to the negro by the sacred
ties of friendship and interest which
unite the true southerner to the wortby
negro. Neither can they hope to ac.
eomplish as much in quarter of cen.
tury OF effort there, as is possible TO one
years determined effort here. The
south needs the negro. can hardly get on
indeed without him, and now that all
trouble has vanished before returning
reason and liberation, there is nothing
left to be desired By either party. Both
are equally interested in maintaining
quiet and good order, and in pushing
ahead and developing the wonderful
resources of our section. The negro. as
a race, is slowly acquiring Homestead,
while his former master is slowly, but
surely. regaining the wealth lost by war.
The situation is hopeful and full of inn
mediate promise Tor both. Let it re,
main undisturbed for the sake the of
white and black alike.
THE AGE OF REGULATION.
The amount and chara:ter of "iob-
bing now going on in all branehoa ~