The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1879-04-15
The CoIored Victim.

The COlored Victim.
Like the movement recently set on foot in
South Carolina to COLOMBO large bodies OF
the blacl, population In Liberia. as opening
a better field for their labor and n surcr
prospect of social elevation, tho scheme Of
emigration from Louisiana, Mississippi,
and other Statos to Kansas and the North
west is destined to failure, because it is
against natural laws. The chief sufferer is TO
be- the poor d,udcI negro, whose limited in
tolligoncc docs not permit him to apprchcnd
the difficulties to be confronted in changing
his old homo for rudcr climate. where to
live at all he must compete with supc-
rior class " labor which Is hardy, enter
prlslng sclf-relant and thrifty qualities
in which the colorcd man, unfortunately, Is
deficient.
Outside the South the negro Is hardly
known MS farmer in the sense that is ia
mliar in the great West, whore he il now
tempted to go to contend with young ani
vigorous population, accustomed TO the use
oi labor-saving machinery and TO all the
improved methods II agriculture. He knows
how to raise cotton, rice. sugar, and tobac-
GO. IN the slow ways which descended from
hs forcrathcrs. and he knows little else
Certainly his knowledge is Of the most prim-
tive sort aud 10y no means adapted to a
chauge which must leave him compare
lively helpless and entirely dependent on
cold charity.
However we'll disposed tho people OF Kan
sas and tho Northwest may be-, they are in
no condition at this time to have thrown
az sci
herd In the cities and towns. and ultimately,
for the want of steady employment become
u scriou burden ON the communities where
they may srt,lc down. We SEQ what they
are IN thn citias OF the East, and the forms
of occupation whereby they suusist. At
Washington onr-thiri of the population Is
clorcd, drawn There ahn0rmnlly by the
operations %! the Ring seven or eight years
ago. II Is a wcl.-kuown fact that these
blacks will not go into the country for regu-
lar farm worN. but prefer to exc out pre-
carious existence in the city. As a neccs-
sary consequence crime Is largely increased.
and the courts are crowded with prosccu-
tions for larceny, burglary, murder, as
-aults. and inianliciic. which last crime has
become shockingly common.
More than this. the death rate 81 the
colorcd population az the capital is nearly
/ double that OF the white, though hospitals
/ and charities Cor their benefit are literally
/ provided ly Congress. This condition Of
/ things cNi-ts right under the eyes of Mr..
/ WINDOW and other pLilauthropic men who
/ have iu-tigatcd the exodus from the South,
as u means OF helping the desperate Rcpub-
/ lean cause. hv holding it up rs proof OF
D . o. q I..sr
! Since the close Of the civil wnr the black
/ mnn has been the victim ~ Republican politi-
! cal managers. He WAS organized by the
/ Frcelmcus Bureau a. "a part OF the machine
/ for carrying elections under the rcconstruc-
| ,ion nets: and then followed tho Freedman IS
/ Bank. originally started for the best objects,
/ and intended 10 encourage thrift among a
/ people naturally careless and oXtrnvagant,
/ with safeguards toprotcct their savings but
q RING ofthirycs az Washington seized h and
induced Republican Congress to change
the law. -o that thcy might steal the earn
/ iur- o. the freedmen.
And now. without preparation or provision
of amy kind they ARE tempted 10 leave the
home, 90 their childhood and tho labor to
which they are accustomed. under the per.
sua-ion Of getting land for nothing, and
/ opportunities 10 better thclr condition
Crclulous and ignorant, former experience
Ga deception counts for nothing with them
/ Carried away by sudden impulse and
d,lu-iuu. they do not stop % sock iuiorma'
tiDu. or 90 count the cost of an rdyentur,
which i- lik.iyto bc followed hy the most
serious consequences tor all who have en-
harkod in it. Thousands will sulcr from
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