Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-11
MEMPHIS APPEAL
FRIUAY, APRIL IL, 1879
THE MEANISG OF THE NGGRO
EXODUS.

EXODUS.
The Republican party secured power nine
teen years ago, and have retained 1t, by the
everlasting negco question. Having rode
this hobby so long aud so successfully, they
are trying to utilize it to perpetuate their
power The exodus of the colored people to
the northern States has much political sig
ni6cance. The south is solid for the Demo-
cratic party. The elections for the past four
years show that the colored vote in the south
is injurious to the Republican party because
it cannot give single southern State to the
Republicans, while, at the same time, it IN
creases the Democratic representation In con-
gress. The Republicans propose to counter
act this loss by inducing or by removing
enough colored votes into the doubtful Demo-
cratic States, so as to carry them for the Re-
publican party, and, at the same time, in
crease their representation IN congress while
reducing the representation of the south.
Two or three thousand cOlored votes trans
ferred from Kentucky or Tennessee to Indiana
would give that State to the Republicans.
One thousand colored voters from Virgin
and South Carolina would decide the politi-
CA GOup lGAlOn VI Il DtllJ - NtOoGty SNuIEotCu
as that of ONO. Alabama, Mississippi and
Louisiana could furnish votes enough to
change the vote of New York, Delaware and
New Jersey. The details Of this effort to
colonize the colored people in the doubtful
States will be found In the pronunciamento
of the National emigration society, and the
scheme is thus alluded to by Washington
correspondent to the Chicago Herald:
There is a man In Washin ton with scheme to
elect Republican President In 1880 by importing
from the south enough negroes to carry the three
Is Colonel Hooker, OF New York. and he Is a
brother-in-l tw OF the late James Fisk. He intends
TO lay bis plans before the leading Republicans IN
congress and hopes to have 4 adopted He says a
million collars can be raised in New York in sin
gle day for the purpose He would go Into the south
and boldly advertise his scheme ana get many
cruits as POSSIBLE, and then ship them NORTH to be
distributed by agents among the farmers OF the
states I'm which they ar needed. one hundred thou
sand to New York. nifty thousand to ohio and sew
enty-fve thousand to Indiana Will be sufficient, Col
One Hooker thinks. to turl the scale and give these
three states over to the Republic n party. he says
this plan Is Lsgiumdts aud LedsioIe. IL cannot De
eensured as piece OF dishonest party prac-
uee, for Il will be accomplished openly and by fair
means. The amount OF money required Will be less
than would, In any event, be spent for campaign
purposes, and the result.wou!d be solid gain OF
such proportions mat II could not De overcome Dy
tactics of any sort whatever. This brilliant scheme
was suggested by the rapidly with which the col
Ored people of the south have followed the sug-
gestiOn contained In The bill advocated al the last
session OF congrts by Senator window. Colonel
Hooker says II there were time he ". uld not have
the slightest diubt # the perfect success of this
PLAN but all OF the machinery will have TO be psr-
reeted an put IN operation 50 as 10 nave the iul-
migrants at ther place or future residences by next
fail. that they will have been residents OF their
respective States before the election In 1891.
II he receives the co operation OF leading RepUb-
licans ne proposes to go TO work Immediately. H
will never go back TO their old homes.
THIS scheme shows the desperate straits to
which the Republican party is reduced
and the devices TO which it is ready to resort
to maintain its hold upon power. This ex-
pejient, if carried out. will lose more votes
TO the Republican party than it will gain
The northern States are already overrun will
the idle scum, the r,frsf and lazy dronei
who live by stealth, and woe to the party tina
adds to the nuisance. Honest laborers anC
mechanics will also oppose the party which
imports vagabonds to compete with them TO
labor that is already cheap and hard to secure
The same feeling which inspires opposition
to Chinese immigration will break out agains
the colored people imported north for politi
cal purposes, and who would learn when to
late that they had abandoned their friend
for their enemies. The Chicago Herald, i
discussing this new device to prolong Rldi
cal, power says: The right of every citizen
white or black, to go wherever his inclinatio
may prompt, or his interest dictate, is not
be misunderstanding not by a Demo
crat-but the emigration Of laborer
and the colonization Of voters ar
widely different propositions. Tn
one is calculated to promote the best weIfar
of the whole country, the other is desiRne
to build up or to prop the interests of part
alone. If New York, Indiana and Ohio sha
be Republican upon fair vote of the bon
hde citizens of those States, the Democrat
of the country, while deploring what the
conceive 30 be evidence of q lack of wisdol
on the part of the citizen, would net hesitat
about acquiesc,pg in their verdict, but if the;
States are to be made Republican, and ther,
by decide the next Presidential contest, by
systematic TRANSMISSION Of voting cattle, it
the duty of every citizen, Democrat or r,
publican, to protest against the device. tn
latest scheme, which has taken shape
Washington and the National emigratc
society, is dictated not only by party neee
sites, but by hatred of the south. If it ca
be carried out in its entirety 1t will not on
SCOuhO a party bAAuAipL bNb Will lhhsCb Il 81
rious blow upon the labor system of the sou.l
Finding the Democratic south an IL
separable obstacle to their designs for q COZ
solidated patesnal theory of government, tb
Republicans now propose to transfer the ig
norant darky from he southern States
those which threaten their party supremac,
and thus reduce the productive power in tn
section. at the same time they coerce til
Democratic voters of the north. Ia otht
words, the Republicans are determined
rule the country, fairly aud honestly if the
can, but to rule it. To this end large col
rution fund is to be raised, but instead
buying voters it is to be used to locate then
They intend to deprive the south of its labo
and to supply the north with voters who
they fancy they can always rely upon q
Republican. 1t is merely a subversion of th
theory of the government under an inglor
ously devised plan which shall not violat
any of the forms Of law. Will the conservg
tive intelligent voters of the north submit {
80 nefarious a processf"
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