Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-05-22
RULE OR RUN.

RULE OR RUN.
TAe Negroes Bound to 7ai,, Control Of the
Southern Country or Leave 1.-THE Plant
ers Making No MOney-Whtte Labor tn
the South.
A correspondent of the Louisville Courier
Journal, at Memphis, reports the following
with Col. Sinclair, a leading
Mississippi planter: ''What will you gentle
men do if all the darkies pull up stakes and
clear out?'' 'sDo? Well, I can't say just
now. Sometimes think we will all do bet
ter after the first three or four years. There
will never be peace in the South until the
negroes leave it, or obtain absolute control
of all the property. We are all trying, and
have been since the close of the war, to do
the best we can and treat the negroes fairly
and Justly. I pay the darkies on my farm
$12 per month and board, and during the
year round am compelled to support half
of their families or else zee them starve.
The wages we pay them here, so cents day
and board, is equal to the pay of white labor
in the North. Besides, they have much
easier times, as they do not have as hard
work to do. And then, without we are
pushed, we give them Saturday or the best
part of it for holiday
"When did you leave homer"
81 left home Friday. Got here to-day on
the steamer Ouachita Belle"
care there many negroes leaving your part
of the country"
"No, can't say as there are. Only about
three hundred have left in the counties near
me, and think at least one-third of them
have returned"
"What for?''
s'Well, guess that they did not find
Kansas such happy land of Canaan as they
expected
"Have these negroes who have gone any
money!
"a little, suppose; not much"
elbow do they expect to get to Kansas"
"Well, they don't know themselves, but
they have been led to believe that as soon as
they reach the North they will be we'll cared
for and furnished transportation from point
to point"
their moving?'
"Uh, yes. have advised some of them to
stay at home and let well enough alone; but
they have got the Kansas fever, and guess
the best thing for US to do is to let them
alone until the fever goes down."
"Did you notice many of them on the
banks as you came along?"
eyes at several points there were quite q
number gathered on the shore. They hailed
the boat but the captain would not land.
felt sorry for the poor devils.''
"Why do the boats refuse to take them p
ssThe principal reason is that when they
get on the boats the cases are rare if they
have money enough about their old clothes
to pay their passage, and al the boats do not
propose to transport them free, the captain
thinks it is better to refuse to take them al
together than to be compelled to land anc
put them ashore
Chow did your negroes gain information
about Kansas?'
sThe first information that had about
the business was by picking up an envelope
on the place one day last winter. 1t was ad
dressed to Charles Hawkins, q sort of bos
niger in my county. The envelope contain
ed printed circulars from Cincinnati ant
Chicago, detailing in glowing terms the ad
vantages of Kansas and the Western State
to the colored men. The inducements wer
brought out in the most extravagant name
on paper, and wonder that more negroes
have not left than there has. It was just tn
sort of thing to catch that class of people.
s'Do you know who the parties are tina
are sending ont these circulars p
''No, do not.''
"Who do you suppose they are r.
81 at first thought it was scheme of tn
railroads to get travel, but have changes
my opinion in that respect. I think no,
that it is some sort of mischievous order o
society in the north that is doing the worl
and it may have some political significance.
! Gin what respect p
"Wel!, to reduce the representation in tn
South, and to COLOMBO enough negroes in th
= doubtful States in the north to carry thel
for the Republicans. Did you say you wei
+ from Indiana?''
eyes, sill"
"Well, if four or five thousand negro'
8 were to stop over in that State until aft
d election next year, it might 60 for the R
d publicans, mightn't it p
4 eyes, it might but the chances are tn
it would not. In the first place it would tai
:, at least ten thousand of them, and in tt
. second place it would have the effect
= drive many of the poor white Republics
:. voters to the Democratic side. Is there al
g white emigration to your part of the cou
:. try"
sssYes; more in last year than before"
= "What nationality"
!. principally Irish, but number of &c
: man families have settled in my county sin
= last summer
! 'Do you think that if the colored fol-
- were to leave the South, white men could
. obtained to do farm labor?"
eyes, 1 think SO. White labor will new
~ come to the South as long as it has to Col
n pete with the negro race
- care the planters in the South maxi
- much money now?'
i "No, they are barely making both en-
- meet. There has been really no mon
- made IN the South since the war. Colt
~ has been low, and after it is harvested, sol
~ and the liens on the crop paid off, there
81 very little left, assure you. I came {
a. about even last year, but I hope to do bet
~ ~ this season. Cotton is advancing steadi
e and think this years crop will bring
- cents pound. It was only eight last ye
- The cut-worm is in the cotton in my Sta
~ as we'll as in Tennessee, Arkansas and oil
~ Southern States. It has, however,up to tt
M time done but little damage, and should
warm weather continue for two or tn
), days longer it will kill them off,"
"Have you any fears of the yellow fe'
80 in your State?''
- 'sNo; we do not think we will have it,
- Thanking Col. Sinclair for his kindn
a. in answering my rather pointed questit
~ in 80 courteous q manner, bid him &C
Nv by. He is really an honest looking gent
an man, and, as the reader can judge from
~ interview, certainly we'll informed. G.
~ versed with number of gentlemen fr
200 Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas alb
VOC the exOdns Int thew cOuId give me no ad