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

RULE OR RUN.
The Negroes Bound to Cain Control Of the
Southern Country or Lenve 1.-THE Plant
ers Making No Money White Labor In
the South.
A correspondent of the Louisville Courier
Journal, at Memphis, reports the following
conversation with Col. Sinclair, q leading
Mississippi planter: "What will you gentle
men do if all the darkies pull up stakes and
clear out?'' edo? Well, 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 suy, y the
negroes leave it, or obtain absolute,fc ssrcl i
of all the property. We are all tryids and
have been since the close of the war. to do
the best we can and treat the negroes fairly
and justly. pay the darkies on my farm
$12 per month and board, and during the
year round l am compelled to support half
of their families or else see 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, I can't say as there are. Only about
three hundred have left in the counties near
me, and l think at least one-third of them
have returned
"What for?''
"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.''
Chow 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 points,
"Have you talked to any of them about
their moving?"
ssUh, yes. have advised some of them to
stay at home and let we'll 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?"
''Yes at several points there were quite a
number gathered on the shore. They hailed
the boat but the captain would not land. I
felt sorry for the poor DEVILS"
I, "Why do the boats refuse to take them p
''The 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 as 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 and
put them ashore
"How did your negroes gain information
about Kansas?'
s"The 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, sort of boss
niger in my county. The envelope contain
ed printed circulars from Cincinnati an6
Chicago, detailing in glowing terms the ad
vantages of Kansas and the Western States
to the colored mon. The inducements were
brought out in the most extravagant manner
on paper, and I 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 out these circulars ?"
mo, do not.''
"Who do you suppose they are p
~ at first thought it was q scheme of thu
railroads to get travel, but have changes
my opinion in that respect. l think nov
that it is some sort of mischievous order o.
society in the north that is doing the work
and it may have some political significance.
! Gin what respect ?"
ssWel, to reduce the representation in thu
South, and to colonize enough negroes in tn
i, doubtful States in the north to carry ther
for the Republicans. Did you say you wer
f from Indiana?'
"Yes, sir.''
"Well, if four or five thousand negroe
> were to stop over in that State until afte
q election next year, it might 60 for the Re
publicans, mightn't it p
t eyes, it might but the chances are tht
it would not. In the first place it would tax
v at least ten thousand of them, and in th
> second place it would have the effect t
t drive many of the poor white Republica
: voters to the Democratic side. Is there an
e white emigration to your part of the cou1
: try"
: eyes; more in last year than BEFORE"
. "What nationality"
i. principally Irish, but number of &c
: man families have settled in my county sin,
4 last summer
!, ssDo you think that if the colored foil
. were to leave the South, white men could
obtained to do farm labor?"
, eyes, think so. White labor will new
- come to the South as long as it has to cor
4 pete with the negro race
- care the planters in the South maki1
4 much money now?"
/ "No, they are barely making both en-
= meet There has been really no mon'
= made IN the South since the war. Cote
:. has been low, and after it is harvested, sol
A. and the liens on the crop paid off, there
It very little left, assure you. I came o
A. about even last year, but hope to do bett
" this season. Cotton is advancing steadil
!. and think this years crop will bring t
:. cents pound. It was only eight last yea
a The cut-worm is in the cotton in my Stat
=. as we'll as in Tennessee, Arkansas and 9th