The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-04-20
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While it is true that the exodus from
the crowded colored parishes Of Louis
lana is decreasing, 1t is non the less
true that the causes which impelled it
are of the same import as ever. Not
one of the objections which forced the
negroes to emigrate have been removed.
The hegira is Stacking, not because of a
change of things for the better, but by
eason of the tales Of suffering and pri-
walton endured by SC many emigrants
suddenly precipitated upon u strange
people.
1t is now clearly established that the
negro prefers emigration to suffering
from the prosecutions Of the uncon-
scionable whites with which the south
abounds. That love OF home, so strong
in the colored breast, and sung in many
a homely rhyme, is shriveled and dried
up by the iercely burning hate of the
whites. To the negro it is now a mat
ter Of existence. As things stand, he
is cheated of his labor from the moment
he signs a contract to work a section of
land until the crops are sold in the mar
ket. The idle land owner performs 40
manual labor beyond signing the con-
tract and counting the proceeds of the
same, yet he lives in luxury and ease,
while the poor, toiling laborer, after n
years. hard effort and strictest como
my with his family, finds himself in
debt to the leasor. Nor is that all. His
plainest personal rights are trampled
down as if he were a groveling worm.
He cannot protest against foul treat
ment; or suggest u lettering of his con-
dltion; or exercise the right Of suffrage
according to his own convictions; or
appear as a witness against the murder
ers Of his father, brother or friend;
none of these things can he do without
mourning the sentence of death by the
white leaguers. which sentence never
misses fire. There is not the slightest
tie, then, to bind the negro to the
south, and, in the oppression that sur
rounds him, what wonder that he sees
a CLEAN of liberty and security among
the people of the section that struck
the shaekles of slavery from his limbs.
As might reasonably be, the negroes
are, as a class, ~improvident. This
has been the rule with those who re-
Gently flocked from Louisiana. They
were happy in scraping together sufi-
cient money and food to insure their
landing in st. Louis. Once there, and
charity would attend to the rest. Char
ity secured them transportation to the
promised land, and Of course the same
God-like attribute ministers to their
wants as best it can when there.
1t is plain that a new phase of the
movement has appeared in the proffered
charity of public spirited men like the
Hon. Zach Chandler, Geo. W. Childs
and Col. Robt. Ingersoll, who all offer
large sums of money to ~colonize negroes
in any state or territory of their choice.
If carried out, this new plan must ami
mate negroes in other sections of the
south. Consequently there may be
enough of the colored population drawn
on to scare the whites into a proper re-
alization of things agriculturally, and a
better appreciation of colored labor will
follow. Possibly the colored people
Will be regarded as human beings with
souls; as men from whom wealth flows;
as citizens equal liz the right Of suffrage.
But will this modern Improvement on
the ante-bellum under ground railway