The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-08-06
VOLUME XIII.
THE coLoREp EXODUS.
New York CIrocer.l


We next present the following vigorous
clear and unmistakable opinion ola prominen
citizen Of Mississippi, OF large experience ant
wide observation:
But in brief The negr.
has not half the cause OF complaint thai
exists amongst white laboring people all oyel
the continent. The first great evil wrought
/ 10y politicians on the negro mind the no
lion that mere freedom was the highest at
taIument in the universe. II was made Il
take the place Of industry or toll at least
it was great equalizer and would place tn,
coiored man and white man on the same plane
or a higher one-by the law Of extremes
1 and compensation. Freedom was greater thar
truth, piety, morality, Heaven and God.
! The "bali0t-boX' was pronounced to him
the end Of all evils. AT its bottom Law a pat.
ent bleaching powder that would blanch the
Z Ethiopian's skin. Aladdin's lamp was q
shadowy myth-but the ballot-box was the
wealth OF the universe in nutshell The
. tree Of life was rooted in the balIot-bOx The
/ politician plucked the fruit and gave him to
eat 1t the shining fruit Of the Dead Sea
the apple OF Sodom- 1t opened his eyes
and he found himself hungry, naked and
I friendess. Friendless2 Yes He was taught
to hate his old and only faithful friend. and
4 follow the utilizing friendship Of men who
were ready enough to spend money and talk
I loud-when the negro was at great distance.
/ The negro discovered his mistake and settled
down 70 work, and said he had been deceived
and spoiled and beggared.
Now, freedom, the ballot-box, ''forty acres
and a mule" and free horses. cigars big
| Dances three work days to week and four
hours day to work, all in the new Jeru-
5alem-the State Of Kansas. The scheme Is a
/ pure, undulterated, political movement.
But the South ought by all means TO help
7 it on. The negro Is no longer of any real
/ value to the South as a laborer He will not
;
his time-his late hours and sleeplcss nights
Of worship p or froIic unfit him to do DAYS
work on Monday, and ne will not in a week
/ do what Western tramp would be required
/ to do in two and half DAYS. They are rap
I idly drifting into condition Of general dis
ease. Virtue, they admit, was never so little
regarded before-vice, never 50 nearly uniyer-
sal. Incompetence grows with frightful pace,
and like the poor white masses OF our large
cites-all their spare earnings go for whisky
II you urge them to be frugal and save their
money, they viii ask you In Whose baak riU 1t
What is all this emigration Westward to
result in? Well, ii it goes on bravely and
the old abolitionists will supply the funds, as
they now seem disposed to do, it will break
the merchants Of the South. Utter ruin will
prevail The North and East will tremble in
the thrOes of a commercial crisis TO which
those Of the past few years mere trihes.
/ 1t may prove the Pandora's box of universal
reputation. 1t VIII put IL motion elements
of disc0rd, jealousy and strife fearful to con-
template The first few years viii be trying
10 the South. But the winter of her discon-
tent viii be brief. She viii learn somcthn
Nothing but the most extreme agencies teach
our people any valuable lessons The South
is now learning 10 work Five-eights Of the
cotton is now made by white labor. White
labor can make more than the South ought TO
raise. In the Incorporating crisis We shall
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the Western States. Necessty-the absence
of anything to purchase with-will compel us
to do the same sensible and right thing to do
produce them ourselves.
Besides ii but 1000 900 bales OF cotton were
made it would be worth more to US than the
5.225,000 crop of 1879. Then we would have
developed an immense force of white work
people who would be only too glad to enter
the cotton factories that would spring up all
over the South, and in few years we could
manufacture half the cotton We could raise
Capital from abroad would soon see the places
TO set the loom and spindlcs in motion. Still
more important than all is what verify believe
will be true. As the negro leaves the South and
presses into Kansas Iowa, Illinois, Ohio and
the great West, the white man will rise up
in Kansas, illinois, Ohio and the West gener-
ally, and pour down into the Southern States.
The pectidr habits of the negro has CEASED
innumerable citizens of the West and from
the old world, who had settled in the South,
To sell out and leave. These Will return with
joyful haste and bring thousands with them.
Then the South will become the garden of the
world.
The dead and forgotten notion that white
people cannot cultivate the soil of the South
is no longer quoted. The best tillage in
Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia,
and Tennessee is by white people. Many of
them don't want negro labor; they will not
have it,
The transition will be painful and trying,
but the South has learned
TO suffer and to wait
and one more great lesson will entitle her to
the respect and homage of the wise and good
the world over.
If the South knows her interests she will
subscribe funds and send every negro off who
desires to go. just at present the planters
will do their best to hold them as their crops
need the hands. But hereafter they will try
other and better measures, and, after uRiCersdf
bankruptcy of the continent, will be the most
Independent people in the world The only
ground of fear is that after a few hundred
thousands have been enticed away. there will
millions of them hang round and lounge
through a worthless life, until the race ex-
pires.
The young generation is a total failure
For fifteen years he has heard of nothing but
negro suffrage negro rights the divinely
instituted ballot-box,' Offices .juryships
'Judgeships, 'Aldermanships,' Constable
ships State Representatives State Senator'S ,
congressman, Medicine Law Theology,
| 'Consulships,' 'Postmasterships,' Marshal
ships in fine, every colored man was going to
get into position and work be forever ADAM
doned. Every town and city in the South is
full of colored chaps who dress we'll, smoke
cigars, walk round the promedades OF the
cities and swell over generally-looking out
for some event to send them to a fat Office.
They are fed and clothed by the fond mammas
who wash, cook, wait, work and wear them
selves out trying to keep their sons on the list
of elegant and expectant gentlemen.
mo chemistry can restore a lost egg. JOY
to the West JOY to all the South! However
l have neither time nor heart TO indite
another line" *K.T