Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-08-27
THE NEGRO INVESTIGATING COM
MITTEE.


together and sent body of intelligent colored
men to Kansas, paying all their expenses, to re
port upon the condition of the refugees who
had escaped there from the South. And yet
we had supposed that the whole exodus was
fasco and literally played out; at least we
gathered that opinion from the tone of the
Democratic and Southern press, but it APP
pears from this new movement that there is
still uneasiness and threatened danger to the
Southern planters from dearth of laboring
forces. A recent dispatch says that many of
the committee enamored with the country
have concluded to remain. The object was,
to go among the new emigrants, not yet
settled down, and no doubt many of them
destitute, and spying out the nakedness of
the land and the discomfort of the unsettled
emigrant, go back to the South, and report
to those left the state of affairs among them,
in order to discourage emigration. The com
mittee was furnished special cars with
plenty of food and whisky, and thus
kept from contact with any adverse influence
until landed among whatever parties were to
be interviewed. 1t shows to what straits the
South is driven, and into what a slough their
short sighted policy has drawn them. They
have directed their best efforts since the
close of the war, to keep the school master
out of the land, and thus keep the poor
blacks in ignorance. They failed in that in
a measure through the work of the Freed
mans Bureau. They have tried every means
by throwing all kinds of obstacles in their
way to keep out northern settlers, and the
cry of carpet. bag gers has sounded from one
end of the land to the other. They have so
intimidated and coerced the poor freedmen
that they have finally determined to seek
rest for themselves and for their little ones
and leaving the spots of their birth; the
scenes associated in their hearts with child
hood, and even the tie of bondage which is
next to kinship in natures that have never
tasted freedom, they sought homes in Kansas
and there are focking still the men on
whom the South alone must depend for labor.
IL was short sighted policy, and de-
structive one: the persecution of the poor
Africans who in all our internal troubles for
the past fifty years have been the innocent
cause. The hue and cry that nearly all the
emigrants, who have reached Kansas, are
anxious to return and that the hard Winters
of Kansas will kill them off can be taken with
a very large grain of salt, and the idea that
emigration is nearly stopped is plainly dis
proved by this last effort at bulldozing them
at home. If the thing was dead, there |
would be no need of an expensive committee, |
but it still lives, and therefore the serious con-
Germ of the South.
What's the use of fretting over it We can
send them any number of Cinnamon who
will work cheaply and faithfully and not ask
to vote the Republican ticket either But
that would not suit. Cinnamon are not
voters and do not want to be, and one would
naturally suppose this would exactly suit the
South There is one little hitch IN the cable
Every negro who goes to Kansas or any other
State outside of the old Confederate lines is
sure of his vote, and the possibility is that his
vote would be Republican, and might in cases
decide elections the wrong way. These same
,oters in the South are allowed to register,
out not to vote, yet the voting census reg
ilates the representation at Washington.
While therefore the South would lose one or
wo representative, the North, and especially
he new States, would gain in exact ratio.
This is probably the most serious consider
tlon of all 1T certainly is to the politician, and
o save them from losing a few representa-
ives, the government has been invoked; ,
ocieties of the north have been asked to
withhold aid, and now committee of coored
nen are hired to bulldoze a little. 1t doesn't
ook as though the exodus was at an end.
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