Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-06-07
rnE NEGRO IN KANSAS.

All accounts from Kansas tell the same
sad story as to the suferings of the poor
deluded victims who have been induced to
emigrate to that State. The political knaves
who have inspired this movement and caused
all this suffering, not for the benefit of the
poor negro, but for the sole purpose of facii-
Eating their political aspirations, have COM
mitted a great crime against humanity, and
will yet be made to feel the wrath of an in
dignant public. DR.. E. P. Bates was at one
time citizen of Memphis. He is gentle
man of truth and veracIty, and our people
will place implicit confidence in his state
ments. Ia the APPEAL of yesterday we gave
his statement as to the suffering of the
blacks in Kansas, which surely sickened and
shocked the sensbiIities of humanity. The
movement was inaugurated for political pur-
poses, but it will prove boomerang which
will damage its originators. The deluded
blacks who were decOyed from their homes
on false pretenses ara painfully seeking to
make their way back to the homes they so
foolishly deserted. Nearly every negro
refugee" IN Kansas is frantic to return to
the south. They are as anxious to get
back as were the poor deluded creatures who
refugeed to Liberia year ago. This dissat-
isfaction will produce reaction among the
southern negroes. 1t will give another blow
to the faith which they imposed in the north
ern Republicans. They will pronounce this
Kansas fraud another Freedmen's saving
bank swipdles or the premise Of "mule and
forty acres of land and the confidence of
IL = l.,
forever lost. 1t will be remembered that the
agents of this cruel fraud upon the colored
people had distributed secretly circulars with
glowing descriptions of Kansas, promising
the emigrants one hundred and sixty acres
of land. Chrome pictures represented the
beautiful homes that the deluded negroes
fancIed awaited them in that promised land.
But how cruel was their disappointment
when they found themselves homeless, friend
less, shivering and hungry In a bleak land.
Numbers have returned and others are
begging their way back to their
old homes, and Or. Bates gives
a sickening account of those who re-
main. The story which comes from Kansas
will put an end to the exodus, and the
negroes now reason that the southern whites
are their true and reliable friends, because
they advised them against doing what has
cost them 80 much suffering by listening to
the falsehoods of northern Republicans. They
will lose confidence in the Republican party,
and If, on that account, they stay away from
the polls, or vote with the Democrats, it will
be charged to buldozing or intimidation. In
discussing tais subject, the New York Union
says: elf the southern negroes want to come
north, the right of doing so cannot be denied
them; but, left to their own option, they
would net be likely to come faster than the
demands of labor would provide for them.
While the natural and gradual distribution
of them throughout the country might prove
more beneficial than otherwise, any sudden
hegira cannot fail to be attended with disas-
ter. The principal reason why foreign immi-
grants do not settle in the south more rapidly
is because the negroes are there. Were they te
be found in any other section of the country in
preponderant numbers that section would be
avoided by white labor Since the close OF
the war there has been tendency on the
part Of the white population to move into the
south, and thousands are now tilling farms in
the southern part of Louisiana. 1t is not the
capital OF the south that would suffer from an
extended moving out of negroes, as then
places would be quickly filed by whites from
the north and from Europe. The cotton crop
is now to large extent raised by white labor
The climate is not as Objectionable as many
have urged. Fevers can be avoided by pru'
dent living and better sanitary regulations
TIE warm countries of Europe are not sup.
plied-with negro labor. Already the Missis
sppl transportation company is moving il
the direction of encouraging the colonization
OF whites in the south, and it is rot a dream
of the remote future that that section will bt
| populated with whites''