Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-06-05
His Head is Level.

. w e nave no means Oh KNOW
|, ing the general newspaper~ser
, itiment in Kansas relative to th
Influx of Southern negroes int
THAT State, but there is at leas
one editor there whose head
ileyel. This is the editor of tn
Junction City Tribune, who ev
lidently knows something abou
the traits of the African, as ",
do here, 1t is nothing to u
whether negroes go to Kansas
! I,or not, but the people of tha
State will make a capital mis-,
take if they do any thing to pro,
lmote their immigration. Ont
Ii undre d thousand negroes
thrown in there in the course
of the next few years would sink
Kailsas beyond drecoyery. Peo-
pie from the extreme Eastern
and Northern States, who have
no experience with negroes may
mot think SO, but they have on
fly to try the experiment of stuff
/ fine Kansas with them in order
Ito be convinced. Only those
who have lived where there is a
considerable population Of ne-
groes, in what are known as the
| old free States, can tell what a
constant drain they are on the
whites.
We annex the Tibune's elito-
rial, adding that the paper is
independent in politics, with
decided Grecnback leanings:
The ExoDUs.-Evesy news
paper of any pretensions to Ell
terprise, must, of course, pub
lish occasional articles under
the above heading. The sub
jiect of black migration from
the south is discussed, just as
if black men had no aspirations
and never thought of bcttcring
their condition. Such a view
of the case is an insult to the
race. Europeans, for centuries,
have been pouring in from couE-
tries whose beneficent govern
ments are mentioned as models
worthy of American imitation.
Yankees have been filling all
the Western States for genera
tions from staid, just aud per-
feet New England. White men
have been coming lromthe south
to the west and north, and from
the middle and northern States
to the far west, all for a COM
mon purpose-''in pursuit of
happiness and i'll hopes Of
beLtering their condition. The
reason of the migration is so
Just and natural that all men
applaud and nobody wonders.
But, now, when the southern
negro has awakened and joined
the hegira from the older to the
newer States in imitation Of his
white brothers, the wise men Of
the Republican party stand a
ghast with mouths open and
thunder in their faces. They
make it a great political ques-
ton, send their reporters to in
terview the newcomers, and, as
desired, are duly filled with
paddy noddy" stories, as 10
the cruelties that induce the
migration. If only a small per-
centage of the yarns are true,
the migration should have be-
gun sooner, and should now be.
greater. Usually when kitchen
help or field hands traverse the
country, spreading stories Of a.
buse in a lifelong home, sensi-
bic people listen with little In
terest and accept with doubts.
Not so now. Great journals
pump for information, are al
ways supplied and publish with
avidity. How long a sorely
bulldozed nation will listen with
candor and patience, time alone
will show.
Beneath the surface Of this
whole affair, however, there is a
quiet practical joke. For years
the north has complained that
the south has been cruel to the
that they have bulldo-
zed them from the polls with
shot-guns and other means.
Denial or explanation does no
good. The south now sends us
a few boat loads Of darkies,
merely to give US taste. In
some places they are met with
a flourish of patriotism and
charity, in others with shot-guns
and pitch forks. In all cases,
the dose, if taken, produces wry
faces. The strongest Republic
can journals, like the Atchison
Champion, are protesting a
gainst the new comers, arguing
Justify that Kansas, at least,
does not want them, and indeed,
carnot support them. The con-
viction is growing everywhere,
that if the movement continues,
the north must use shot-guns i'll