American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-09-20

anu MS people "a Idir duu just rec
ognition of their rights" they, in
stead of making another Runny.
mede, will run to Kansas.
Levy seems 10 be reader of his.
tory. We respectfully call upon
him and all his tribe, assisted by
the distinguished chairman of theip
executive committee, to point out a
single case, from the creation OF
Adam to this good hour, in which
any people similarly circumstanced
have fed from their native soil
their affairs and their firesides-and
isouRht new homes in distant land.
beneath inhospitable skies, among
strangers. The cases of the Ilugue
nots and Pilgrims furnish no analo-
gies, because they consisted of COM
paratively small numbers, seeking
rest from religious persecution back
ed by overwhelming numbers and
power. The withdrawal of the Pies
beans from the city of Rome to
Mons Sacra. and the exodus of the
Israelites from Egypt, are totally
dissjmilar, for many of the reasons
existing ia tue other cases.
The fact of such withdrawal
would alone be confirmation strong
as proof from Holy Writ, that such
creatures were unfit for the duties
and privileges of citizenship. But
this alleged denial of free suffrage
and the bCnOrs of Office, as incent-
ives to the Kansas movement, is Il
most patent sham aud false pre-.
tense. To prove this, we need but
refer to the tact that a negro rcpre>
sentative in legislative body OF
a Northern State is thing un>
known to the oldest inhabitani.
This much talked -of exodus had its
origin in totally different influences
i'm the combined schemes of Ger
tain Northern politicians and land
Spectators the former desiring TO
use the negro vote to secure Repub-
!ican ascendancy in certain doubtful
States, and the latter looking to an
influx of labOrers as a means of in
creasing the value of their real es
tate. For reasons unnecessary to
consider here, these selfish schemes
we've soon discovered by their orgi.
majors not to be feasible. But the
negro is not destitute of cunning
Che bath some glimmerings o. cons
mon sense, that creature Dugald"-
aud lie soon found that, while he
was not wanted at the North, the
land owners of the South were anxi.
Gus to retain him He has set him>
self to work to make the most of
this information. He would like to
restore the golden age of Radical
ism, when five negroes, not one of
whom could write his name, consti-
tuted the Board of Supervisors. 1t
was this body that Gen. Greaves,
when seeking the Democratic nomi,
nation, char acterized as Demerara
team, composed of four mules with
a jackass in the lead.
The colored people of this county
are in the full enjoyment of life,
liberty and property, and as free in
the pursuit of happiness as any one
else within our limits. AS to bull.
doing, it has never been known
Us, except when practiced
by the negroes themselves, during
Radical ascendancy, to deter any of
their own race from voting the
ticket. If this state
ment needed confirmation, it could
be found in the testimony CT Judge
DIR. Holland, and other
citizens, taken before
the Congressional Com mittee three
years go. This is known to be
true, Notwithstanding the fact that
certain greedy and desperate Offices
seekers are sIandering our people
by insinuating the contrary, and by
their valiant dctermiu-
alton to see that no one iuterferes
with the negroes right to vote.
We will recur to Levy's(?) state
ment in our next issue, and trace
the further progress Of the coalition
between the ''PuriraDs and Blacks
legs, to seize upon the offices.