Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1879-05-03

Minnesota, made the following re-
markable statement respecting the ne
gro exodus:
The movement Is a touching and powerful
protest against oppression md wrong; u
spontaneous expression Of despair from .
people whose condition Is too intolerable for
longer endurance. In some parts oil The
South these people have been for years the
victims of II despotism more cruel and re-
than was ever endured bp the citi-
zens OF any other nation pretending to be
free. Entitled to all the rights and p~riyile-
ges of American citizens, and yet pcrsecu-
ted, whipped, murdered and driven from
their homes, and subjected to the most infa-
nous barbarisms II they presumed to cXer-
else the dearest rights Of citizenship, Is 1t
surprising they have resolved to leave their
wrcthed homes, which afford neither secure
ty for the present nor hope for the future,
and brave any peril and deprivation, rather
than repeat the suferings Of the pastS
Certainly ii would be difficult to find
as many palpable, unmitigatcd false
hoods in the same space. as an cmbod-
led in the foregoing extract, even il
n searched the whole field of litera-
ture. There is not II scintilla of
truth in anything he says, and Senator
Window knows it, else he is the most
%stupcndous ignoramus that ever fig
ured in the councils of Il nation.
Every intelligent, honest man, who
knows anything about the condition
of the negroes in the South, will not
hesitate to say, that they are as happy
Independent, and se.f-sustaining, as
any laboring population of any rae or
nation. Such a thing as Il negro beg
gar or tramp, is hardly known among
us; while seldom a day passes that our
back. doors are not besicgcd by worth
less, lazy tramps from the North. Ii is
true, most of the negroes are poor-as
are the white people ofthe South-bui
hundreds and thousands Of them are
living on their own lands, which they
have bought and paid for: besides
they have live stock of all kinds, and
many other species ofproperty. Their
children are being educated at the
public schools, almost entirely at the
expense of the white population; and
they are advancing in civilization mo-
rality, and religion, as fast as their Pc
culiar natures will admit of. 1t is all
bosh, nonsense, and diabolical mean
ness, to talk about the negroes being
oppressed, and driven out ofthe South
to seek homes in an ..uncongenial cl-
mate. They are going, because they
have been allured and deceived by bad,
designing men, cmisaries of the clique
in the North, to which Mr.. Window
belongs; and all for political purposes.
Every one acquainted with the na~
ture and organization of the negro,
knows that he is influenced more by
emotion, passion and prejudice, than
by reason, and reflection; therefore ii
is easy to see how readily he would be
c%aptivated by the exaggerated descrip-
tons and highly colored panoramic
views of Kansas presented to him by
sharp travelling preachers of his own
race and still shrewder and meaner
white men from The North, as has been
the case in Louisiana and some por-
tons of Miss. He was promised land
stock, and perfect social equality. No
wonder, that in his simplicity and ig-
norance, he should jump at these
bright promises, and leave the home
and friends of his childhood, to seek
this Elysium of the black man..
But let us be patient and see the cad
of the hegira. Already we can see the
beginning of the end, in the large num-
bers that have half starved, sickened
and died at Wyandotte, Kansas; and
the yet greater number that have been
scattered among the farmers of Kan
sas, hoping to make money enough to
pay their passage back to the South.
Cruelty and oppression, indeed
You of the Window stripe, having
conferred the right of suffrage on the
negro with the expectation of con
trolling his vote for all time, and hav-
ing failed in il, are turning heaven
and earth TO deprive the South of its
political power; and this is your latest
scheme in that direction. You care
not a farming for the negro, and would
sink the race into perdition in order to
accomplish your political ends. Try
something else, Mr.. Window; this will
be Il failure; and you and your party
will lose cast with the negro, as sure
as a little more light breaks upon him
and he sees clcarly-as he will-how
grossly, and h~cartlcssly he has been
dupcd aud misled. The South is calm
and quiet on the subject, knowing
what the end win be.
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With the exception of oats, the crop
prospects of our county are unusually
promising. The stands ofcorn are ex-