The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1879-05-01
Exodus.

not think he ever Will, as people, IL
must be towards the South. There
alone can he live by himself, without
the support of the white man. He can
live there thus unsupported, as he does
in Hayti and on the Mosquito shore,
feeding on the fish and fruits that
tropical climate lays at his feet, aud get
ting up big drunk by way of religious
observances.
He will never lave the rich valley
of the Mississippi and the cane fields
of lower Louisiana for any country
that requires heavy clothing and strong
food to be won by his own exsr-
tious, be it Kansas or any where
else. Under the pressure of polit-
ical excitement, got up to manuiac-
ture capital for the next Presidential
election, Mr.. Window, and men like
him, knowing nothing Of the subject,
and caring as little for the consequences,
or how much it damages those who are
attracted by the false showing made and
promises given, may draw off two, four,
or, i: you choose, ten thousand of the
colorcd population to starve and rot,
and be knocked in the head in Kansas
but how will this affect the millions
who CT necessity must remain Al
vcady the Northern negro complains
that he Is denied the right to labor
along side Of the white man, while at
the South lie gets all tho encourage
mert he could ask in that field, and We
cmphatica!iy add always will. We in.
tend, as the superior race, to govern
our country. hut the negro shall have
every privilege that is consistent with
that one provi;o =: and in saying this We
only state, in other words, that intelli~
gencc, morality and capital shall assert
its supremacy.
Subordinated. as the negro now is at
the South, to the political ascendency
Of the white man, his value as labor
er. as such to assist, by his thorough
adaptability to the position, to develop
the PROSTATE interests Of an agricuItu>
raj country, We think is very great.
While anxious TO encourage white iui.
grafton. they should be of a different
class-mcu able 70 buy land. aud with
capital to stock it; but to precipitate
upon our country a mass of white la
Dor, irresponsible and violent, a stormy
prolctariat'without habit, a sympathy or
tradition in common, We would soon find
that Of all the positions heretofore oc-
cupicd by us, this would te the worst.
We have been. in tie last two years,
much impressed with the change iu the
labor Of the Southern negro. The sad
experience and suffering they have gone
through have made them amenable 10
the necessities Of their position. We
have seen him work, in individual in
stances, as we'll as he ever did, and be-
lieve that, once settled down to his true
position, realizing that he can never be.
north, south, cast or west, the social
equal of the white man, and we have q
class Of labor better suited for great
deal of our country than any we can
get. even supposing that other could be
got. 1t is easy to say, run eff the nc
gro and put in white labor, but very
little calculation vii! show that one is
as difficult as the other, and meanwhile
the country goes to waste. Place the
dav labor of the South in the hands Of
Northern and forciga tramps and you
have hut to lock at the condition of the
North and West to realize the euormity
Of the evil. The negro is as class, so
to speak, odscrptvs g'eb@. and in all his
wanderings, time and opportunity scrv-
Ing, shows disposition to drift back to
the old pIautatioa home. They do better
in the majority of cases as tenants in
the hands Ct an intelligent proprietor.
than on lands Of their owr. There are
some in that position who have done
we'll and made money, even last year,
and the example set by these few is
telling on the rest. They have sense
enough 10 see where their true interest
lies, have accepted the situation, and
vote for the most part with the whites
Properly encouraged, a class Of this
character can bo built W. Under the
slave system, the negro was undoubted-
II the conservative element Of the
country. and the fly wheel Of the great
renublic. Now, freed und having the
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