The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-12-25
THE EXODUs-lTS MORAL RE-
SUITS.

SUITS.
This movement of negroes to Kan
sas and to other Northern States is as
suming proportions in Texas which
demands attention. The STATESMAN
is not anon those who would induce
che negro to remain in cur midst
against bis will. He is a freeman,
and having reached the conclusion
that it Is bettering kls condition to go
elsewhere, lac should be permitted to do
81 without opposition In some c3m-
munities the exodus may, for a time,
entail bardships-!hat is, it may re-
duce the acreage grown in cotton and
corn, and may, as IN Washington and
Grimes counties, make fields valueless
because OF Eon-producnoD; but this
will be Only temporary, for while
this moving OF blacks goes cut there
Will be constant moving in of intelli-
gent and industrious whites, and IN a
few years these same fields, for a time
lying idle, aud hence recupersting their
pre- duc.ive power, under the careful
band of white labor, will again bios
ON sud bloom and produce as
never before. The repugnance enter
teined by Northern Europeans to
negrots, it is kCown, has kept these
people from moving into the South in
!ergs rum ers. Except in portions Of
Toxaa, and of tone other state,
where negro populations do not
abound, but few of these people have
settled. They have always shown an
antipathy to the colored race, and
when locating in sections where
negroes are to be found, they
have formed communities of their
own and have lived separately and
apart from the negroes. While the
North, with its vigorous winters, and
its long, expensive seasons of agrIcul-
tural repose, was adding millions to its
population from among the nations of
Europe, north Of the Rhine, the South,
with it's delightful climate and its rich
soils, was Stunned and avoided as a
social plague spot, and to this day it
labors under the same difficulty that
brought about this condition of affairs.
Ii the negroes desire to leave us let
them do SO; even encourage them in
the act, and, when the black element
In Texas has dwindled to insignifi-
cance, day will have dswned fin
which clouds that now lower about us
will be dispelled, and the Lone Star
State will be the first of this Union
first IN territory, first in popula-
ton, first in intelligence, first in
agriculture and in commerce,
first in social and political distinction
and first in all that makes people
great and respected. The history of
nations and of peoples has demon
strsted that the black element has al
ways been detrimental to prosperity
and to greatness. Had the traffic in
Africans, carried on by New England
traders, meyer turned loose upon the
Gulf States single nCgro, the South
could to-day hsYe boosted of the same
general refaemeht and wealth pos
sessed by Massachusetts,; AID could the
negroes of the Sjuth, as a whole, be
turned loose to-day within New Eng
lands bounds, as permanent settlers, q |
social, political and industrial demor-
slization, greater than ever befell |
South Carolina in its darkest days,
would follow. Some of the richest |
lands IN Texas are row given over to |
the negro, because white men will not |
settle among the'blacks. II the S.ne-
gambian population that now COW
ers Brszoris, Fort Bend and
Wharton counties could be To-
Gated in Kansas or elsewhere, the
hope might be INDUCED in that these
same lands, unequaled in fertility and
In variety OF production, would be re-
deemed from the waste and desolation
now perYading them, and become the
places of babitation for the industrious
Scotch, Germans and Scsndinaviaus.
Ia thus estimating the value of negro
populations, the STATESMAN does not
ieny that III the Southern Slater they
nave not, In many instances, proven
good citizens and laboIers;
,ut lu doing 80 it takes the high
ground that to leave social inheri-
ance to our children of which they
nay forever be proud, this inheritance
must be bereft of the fixed Influences r
If colored populations. And yet we
Oeheve the problem would work itself
out in geuerstions-that the African
,ace in this country must become ex-
inct- and these Northern politicians,
who propose to use the negroes as
political factor ID Kansas or elsewhere,
,nly hasten, in this dissemination of
he race, its final extinction.