The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-12-03
Richmond llsnaffa,
rnrrsr,A 1. .pEcEMBER ., 1879 $40
S,o,onizsng Indiana.

:, i, ,,sr,ves IA 10 see how much space W
!. 4, sbs columns Of some Of eur north
am ;SsseInporaTses "a tue subj OF inc PRO-
,asea coioniz,ion Of Indiana By negroes g
: means oil snsuring that the electoral, Vose,
80 fhss state shall next year be given 70 tnes
o pan,,hi,can candidate for President. ~ is
mn ;mnracticsble, visionary scheme ena
val there apr,ears to be real belief IN tsfe
minds 81 good many norshern peop's taas
there a prospect OF Its success.
IA ID ourselves, we can say taas '6e nave
,,eye,s for one moment been disturbed by
ehs nronosed method OF stealing tBsiana
srona the Democrats. We hold q TO De
as certain as fate that the Republicans
wo,,ld lose two white veses for every negro
vote that they could secure by coion'-
zation. Besides, IS we Save Said' tue
scheme IS Improbable. The negroes are
not going to Indiana. Tney are 50 much
attached to their southern hcsnes ana tneif
whit. aeashbors that they woasd rather ''s v.
in the South upop hog and aominy IMAM IN
the North upon any diet wsssch can De oner.
cd RI shem.s There are instances not re"
nj negroes having returned from New 1ork
or Brooklyn to Renter service IN thls Guy
although ther received $40 dollars IN 'ue
former p|aces for every one paid them iu
Ricbmend Tor the same kind OIL services
The nesro's constitution is not adapteo 10
a cold climate. CONSUMPTION is as common GO,
.amnag negroes IN i Rishmo 81, H""-@
100
and # so, the reader can easily lmag'ne
what sort of chance for life large negro
incubation would have in any community
as Tar north as Boston.
It Is true Indiana is not as Tar nereh us
Massachusetts, and that the southern part
OF il is not q very cold climate. But that
southern part is SO strongly Democratic
TINT there will hardly be much coionlzihg
of negroes done In that section OF the
State. The northern counties have exceed
ingly disagreeabie weather in winter "n,ch
the negroes will not choose to encounter
Cor the mere purpose Of aiding to put INTO
office a Republican President. lnthe couh
try districts in Virginia the negroes nave
inst as much tirewood at command as they
choose to burn. They are not charged one
cent for all that they choose to consume;
and they avail themselves OF this to them
inestimable privilege to az extent that
would not be tolerated by any other fhah
southern men, nor by these il they bad not
learned in the times OF slavery to treat the
negroes as dependents and to accord 10
them privileges which are never accord
to hired servants.
Will the negro leave Virginia, for In
diana? Very few OF them would do 1t
even to get higher pay. Few or none OF
those who are employed would go, in our
opipion. And the further south the negro
lives now, the less likely is he to take up
with the offer to leave his warm southern
home. his associates OF his own race, and
the whites whom he we'll knows to be the
best friends he has in the world, to enter
upon new career in community that
would have no sympathy with his weak
nesses, no companions for bis idle hours
except those he took with him to that re-
eiop, ard no inducements OF any sort
which would make up for the many adVan-
tages which he now possesses.
Let the scheme be worked out to its le-
gitimate end. No Democrat need enter
tain single fear that it will be aught but
Fo;tDra