The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-04-08
LOCAL Restlessness.

We see now that large number OF peo-
nile are "moving" from Pennsylvania TO
Kansas. What's the matter there? DO tne
movers complain OF cruelty and OF not
being treated like white people ,? Do they
com plaia Of anything? Do they not ra'ner
ex nect TO find better conditions for them III
the country to which they are going VIII
ont being able to say exactly what Is wrong
in the country they are leaving!
Exactly So it has ever been. feopie
ore ever attracted to new localities by the
reportcd advantages in those new icca''ties'
No other country has presented III sue"
rand succession as the United STATES
50 many .Eldorados to excite the oesitts
NJ peopIe. Areas OF mineral ana asff
cultural wealth have been opened to emf.
grants, that have excited people, ana leo
then; to translate themselves IN hundreos
and thousands irOu InGrr uuIIc5 to "r'r'
ones. For centuries every part OF lne
Union has been familiar with these move
meDts. In 1900, 1916, 1920, and 1924, VIZ
pinia was seriously drained by the neWly-dis'
covered Eldorados in Kentucky, Ohio, Ia
bama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Mum
bcrs of families left homes unoccuI1ed anu
lands untitled to "move off" to the much
desired new countries. In some cases INC
q moyersv have incurred the land they
left, and would 60 back to it II they cou'o
The history OF the social removals has been
the same in every era. Texas. so ricn III
eyentful history, is still the field OF stirring
incident, and each year this has been repeat
| ing itself.
Since the war there has been more than
one exodus of negroes from southern lands
such changes as those looked for by Mother
lWISpoM-remoyal OF negroes from one
southern land to another. The negro being
set free. of course be too falls 10 some eX-
tent under the influence of the rumored adj
vantaccs of new homes, and lie too Will
find that such temptations to discomfort,
such cxpcctations of benefit from removal,
are not always realized. His delusions VIII
OF course be more numerous than those OIL
the whites ever were; for he has not the
Judgment and forecast Of the white man,
and cannot be expected TO succeed as well.
The alleged discomfort Of the African
and his treatment at the South is Il party
trick: but it will come to nothing. The
number OF cmigratng blacks is grossly eX-
accerated. We have made an estimate,
based upon rumors as to the number OF ar
rivals by water at st. Louis, and found that
hundreds would answer for the cnumcra-
ton where thousands are used.
One Professor GREEN (colored)-fudge =
appears in the New York Herald making an
eXtravagant statement OF cruelty to negroes,
| to which he adds that they do not get pald
for their work, and that they pay sixty
cents pound for bacon. Can the story De
believed? The land of cotton and sugar
can better pay for cultivation than any
other in the Union, and the Mississippi val
! lev is more Astounding IN food than any
other in the United States. And the lGea OF
sixty cents pound for bacon is wholly ill.,
credible. GREEN says the cruelly-treated
and starved want to go West. Well, let
them. Who cares how many? Ii the
reasons be good, and the expectations be
realized, all right. Nobody will be hurt.
But Just as sure as that these stories are
false vii! the returning tide Of negroes set
In with suferings far exceeding those OF the
outward expedition.
The fact is, there is nothing new IN the
whole history of the exodus. what IS iase
is not new. The raScally eXaggerations Ds
the scurvy party editors are mere Tepe.'-
tons. The villainous manufacturers OF tue
lies are only working OF the machiners
employed so long to distress the people anu
carry out party objects. BY and ny Ihe de-
,iherote yillainy OF the inventors Will return
70 n,,pue them, and the poor colored dupes
will find that, after loss and misery, they
arc no better OIL.
let popuiations do what they desire. 1t
10 all well. The country will be benefited,
and the Iaboriug class will in the long run
Gain by being better informed of the coun-
try and OF their interests. But any attempt
to engineer the discontcnts and movements
under them for party purposes will end in
failure and discontinue.