The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1879-09-11
lCincinnati Gazette.l
The COIOred Exodus.

We print a communication in this
paper from a prominent citizen of
indianapolis, in which he advises that
the colored exodus from the South be
not encouraged. He takes the ground:
1. That the Western States are not
suitable to the colored people of the
South that unaided they could not
make a living in new States, and that
while the Northern people should take
care of those who have already escaped
from the South, they should not be
asked to make provision for future
emigrants.
2. The South is the native country
of those colored people; they are at
home there; they are necessary to its
prosperity as its prosperity is necessary
to them; they are citizens under the
law, entitled to equeal rights, and, if
not protected by the government, they
should protect themselves by fighting
their oppressors, and that the Northern
people who sympathize with the ne
groes can better aid them by helping
them to help themselves; that they
should forcibly remain where they are
and assert their rights.
The Gazette has heretofore main-
tanned that the colored people of the
South, or Of parts of the South, while
legally free, are actually in bondage
worse than slavery, and that they have
to choose between remaining in this
condition, fighting for their rights, or
fleeing from their oppressors. If they
were white men they would undoubt-
edly fight for their rights and secure
them. They are numerically strong
enough to turn the shotgun, the torch,
and the rope successfully upon their
oppressors But they lack discipline 4;
have no trusted or efficient leaders,
and have so long been used to the
yoke that they are not disposed to
fight white men. During the war,
while the white men of the South
fought to establish an empire whose
chief corner stone should be human
slavery, the slaves cultivated the lands
and protected the families Of the alb
sent warriors. They We're fully as
important to the Southern Confedera-
cy as the men who carried muskets
In that case they exhibited their ma
ture, which has not since materially
changed, nor is it likely to change for
at least a generation. They know,
however, that they are wronged, and
the only way out Of this, as matters
appear to them, is through emigration
to country where the ballot is in the
hands of every citizen, and equal
rights are assured to all. To advise
against this and at the same time to
encourage the negroes to turn upon
and destroy their oppressors is seri-
Gus matter, which, perhaps, our cor
respondent has not sufficiently con-
sidered. We are not prepared to adopt
that course.
The time may come, and if the
Northern people are alive to a sense of
justice and right, and realize the true
character of the government and the
of its existence, the time
will soon come when the arm Of the
law, which is now paralyzed in large
sections of the South, will be made
strong, and through that instrument
tality the negroes will be protected as
all classes of citizens will be protected
IN their rig hts as full citizens of the
republic.
1t is humiliating now to be forced
to admit that i'll some of the Southern
most of them, in fact-the
and laws of the United
States are nullitied-openly and de-