The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1879-03-27
Tue NEGRO EXODUS.

EDITOR TINES DEAR Sir-I have read
with deepest concern tie articles in you-
paper, transferred from the papers Of St
Louis, and your brief editorial thereon in
regard to the exodus from lie South. ]
agree with you in the view that it il great
wong 10 bring thousand. Of poor and help.
less people Of any class or race into our
State at once. Especially so, when they are
entirely unused to our climate, industries
etc, and where 10 pre-arrangement has
been made for their direction and set'e
ment II very many such should come, a:
cannot result otherwise than in great suffer.
ing TO them and great embarrassment to the
State. So far We are agreed. You pro-
noupce it sn outrage. / believe that is too
strong. You think something should be
dcne 70 stop their shipment, think 70 too,
il it can be done lawfully, but doubt
whether it can be done except By force
There Is true inwardne-s" in this move
ment which the SoutheIner denies, and
which the North refuses to see. These p-o-
pie were made free by the war, and
gu srsnieed protection by the Constitution
dbu AWE VI tuC louu- tAu-C tHc
promise was kept, and 40 long "a a fair
maj ,rity rule was maintained, 50 tina; the
people were secure in life and the epj ly-
ment of wha. they earned, there was 10
talk Of exodus, But sir, through iuiuen-
ces which will not mention because di.a-
preeable, the people who decreed emsnci-
patton in order to triumph in war, aban-
doned their allies The minority in those
States from which the people are flying,
seized the power, and b gan to cypress, as
a minoritv in rule Away. will. Their rule
in those States il but the record of steady
growth in oppression and violence. "All
that man has he will give for his lite"
So spake the devil in debate a good many
years ago. Ii is true still. The nation
has surrendered at last to the Cpnfederscy
The black shadow Of oppression o'erspresis
the future, and these people would if posi-
bic move out en- mosse This outpouring
will bring home to the Northern p cple in
manner that no entresiy could, the bot
tom facts of the knotty problem. The peo-
pie are oppressed and robbed. There is
no possibility Of denying it. Captain
Lenox's ststement about the swiudlers in
league with the squires, tells the whole
story of the southern administration Of jus-
,ice to III. blacks. The little remnants of
cotton left 10 them after eXhorbitsn ents
and charges, j. often a,tached on the way
from the gin to the CRY or to TIE boat for
shipment, and they are compelled to accept
some trumped up charge or resist in a
law suit. the end Of which il ruin.
1t would require volume to tell even
half the wrongs of this people since the
war, aside from murder and fortunes. No
sir, you cannot stop their coming TO these
Northwestern States by the million, unless
you station an srmy in The way. or restore
freedom and justice in the South
/ received on Monday, letter from
man in Mississippi. who was for some
years Il prominent and useful msmbpr of
the Legislature, saying, Thousands Of our
best people are preparing TO come to Ksn
sas or wherever they can find home There
il no law here but the rifle or revolver" /
wrote him to the effect that there is
no encouragement for thousands of poor
people to come here, that / was of opinion
that il it continued the authorities of the
State would be compelled by public senti
ment to do something to stop it. To be
patient little longer. | have hope that the
nation can yet he induced TO take hold Of
this question in a practical way.
A conference Of leading colored men hiss
been ca lied to meet in Nashville, Tennessee,
On the 6 h of Nay, proximo, with the view
TO gathering up the facts of this whole case
aud LAYING them in practical form before
the whole American people, and to ask
them ia the N tme OF the cOuntry'- peaceful
future TO solve this problem in accordance
with justice.
Mr. Editor, you Of the North may "a well
face this question at once, aud deal with it
in a manly way. You cannot fro~n it
down. Millions of people cannot BE- blotted
out b, shutting your eyes AID refusing to
ace them. They vi ONLY seem the larger
when you come TO look at them again.
You CAMPO IF I'D TO despi-e them
They have aid much in making your
C 'unfry influential a,d great, by labor
and by sscritic-s "a great and worthy az
auv other peopl- in the land
You have made them free; they cannot
be re-enelaved without a struggle tn Il
hat mak.s one shudder 10 think of They
are united in destiny wi h YOU They are
a:riotic and thorous hly imbu.d with your
religion and social institution; and in the
fu'ure a. in the past they will tight and die
.ide by side with their white fellow-c itiz ns
in def=nse Of their country's integrity ard
honor. Respectfully yours,
j. c. EMERY.