The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-11-05

RELIEF WORK Al IOPEKA-STORIES OF
OUTRAGE AND CRUELTY-TALK WITH
soJOURNER TRUTH.
Yes, Kansas is the promised land, sure
enough, but that's no reason why all the
refugees from Egypt should settle down
within her borders and become burden to
her people l tell you there's two sides to
this exodus question. We've got several
thousand of these darkey immigrants here
already, and we We done the best we could
by them, and we'll see them through with
it, now we've begun, but | say that if we
are to have several more thousand thrown
upon our hands this coming fall and winter
it will be a calamity worse than the grass
hoppers. We are not a rich people We
have come here poor and slowly gained a
foothold-subject always to the hoppergrass,
the uncertainty of crops and the meteorolo-
gical dispensations of ProvideHce-but We
can't stand this exodus all by ourselves.
The other Northern States are equally in
terested in it with US and they ought to
take their share of the burden. The refu-
gees are coming; we know that. When
the crops in the Southern States are gathered
in, Mr.. Darkey will collect his availables,
and by boat, rail, in wagon, or on horse
back, or muleback, or on foot, make his way
to the promised land. If they have the
necessary outfit to start with in Kansas, we
come. The State is big enough and fertile
enough to take them all in. But when it
comes to receiving a vast horde of hungry
Africans thrown on our hands in an utterly
helpless condition, we DON'T want more than
OUR FAIR SHARE
of the burden. There ought to be an agent
stationed at St. Louis, or some other point
on the Mississippi River, with power to de-
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various colored immigrants should 90. We
have had a hard time and tough time get
ting those located that have already arrived,
and if there's going to be 100000 more
pouring up the river this season we'll have
to look carefully, or We'll be most entirely
and thoroughly swamped. 1t isn't right or
fair that Kansas share in this movement
should be placed at 100 per cent of the
whole. This isn't the popular idea here,
FL tell you that much. Most of the peo-
pie think, as Gov. st. John expressed it in
the Grove, that Kansas can take care of
100000 colored refugees, Unnecessary f; but
| reckon they IL see the error of this broad
sentimentality before long, when Africa
knocks at our gates 100000 strong"
The man who made the above remarks in
presence ofthe pious pilgrim of the Globe
Democrat was prominent citizen of To
peka, man of undoubted patriotism
principles, stanch friend of the African
race, and an Abolitionist in the times that
tried mems souls. People accused him of
want of loyalty for his remarks on the exc
dus, but he always maintained that there
should be good lookout kept all the time
that the colored breakers on the Southern
horizon might not do irreparable injury to
the State and the Republican cause. He
was quite right in saying that his view was
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was a strange mixture of substantial self
sacrifice and pious enthusiasm. LET them
come. When they get here we will do the
best we can with them. We have lived
through the dark days of border troubles
and survived the grasshoppers We are
rejoicing in State that has fairly attained
its puberty, and feel strong enough and free
enough to bear any burden. Let the OPP
pressed and suffering darkies of the South
come. We welcome them. The Lord that
sent them here knows best"
THE RELIEF ASSOCIATION.
And this popular feeling is pretty we'll
represented in the doings of the Kansas
Freedmen's Association. that has its head
quarters at Topeka. Its Secretary. Mr. C.
E. Wheeler, said: eff I had couple of
hundred immigrants on my hands to-day /
could find something for them all to do
Here" pointing to an immense stack of
papers, ''are requests for colored help that
we are unable to fill For when this thing
started we employed an agent, and scattered
blank acquisitions for help far and wide.
These come back to US filed up with the
party's name desiring the help, the number
and character of hands wanted, the number
of children willing to be received for APP
premiership, and the amount of money
donated to aid in locating the help, and
these have come in in greater numbers than
we are able to fill. -
''How many immigrants has your Asso-
citation located thus far 90
Something over 5000. Some of them
are on the colonies and the rest scattered
round on farms and in the cities"
"Where are your colonies located r.
ssThere are six colonies altogether. The
Hodgman Colony, in Hodgman county, has
about 200 members. The Dunlap Colony,
near the southeast border Of Morris county,
has 500. The colony near Eskridge, in
Waubunsae county, has about 200.
Nicodemus Colony, in Graham county, has
little over 500, I reckon. Chautauqua,
near Euida, has 800, and the Cherokee
Colony euem0re than that. Here are the
bonds for deeds % be ISSUED for the land
purchased il w abrnxue. Peopleask whose