Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-05-08
WALIIALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MAY s, 1879.

The negroes aro told that if they leave
the sunny and hospitable South they will
find in Kansas cold and incloment weather,
and receive no assistance or encouragement
from the people amongst whom they pro.
pose to 90. New this is all nonsense; it is
worse, it is not true, and the folly of suoh
talk will only rebound upon those who use
it. The truth is, the climate of Kansas is
milder than Virginia, Kentucky, Maryland,
and portions Of Tennessee. 1t is wonder
fully rich and productive country, and the
people of that State arc only too ready to
welcome 'emigran.s who are trained to ngri.
cultural labor. u is better that we should
frankly, say this than that We should repeat
the current stores. The truth will ulti-
mately reach tho coIored people from those
who have already gone.
In our opinion the only wise course to
pursue in this crises is such cotrse as will
iovite tho confidence of tho coored people,
as will inspire them with sense of ippesrfect
security for life, liberty and property; rs
will convince them that they are not to be
deprived of their political rights; as will
awaken hope and indicate u reasonable
prospect of an Improvement of their cordi.
ton, us will lead to return of complete
harmony between the races, and, finally, as
will reawaken the attachment and love
which these people still entertain for the
land of their birth, and the associates aud
playmates of their birth, and the associates
and playrnates Of their childhood. If tho
men of property and wisdom throughout
the parishes will adopt this course they can
save the State from what moy otherwise
prove to be an impending calamity. But
this cau only be done by tho planters; poll
ticans cannot help.
AS we have said the negroes arc leaving
the State because there exists among them
a sense of insecnrity-an apprehension that
their civil aud political rights arc in danger
% belief that they cannot have Justice
The truth compels us to admit that these
apprchensions arc not altogether unfeasona
bic; TINT they are the natural rcsults Of tho
conduct Of class Of irrepressible young
men-young politicians they think thcm-
selves, who have no interest in peace and
order since they havo no um mbition but to
get office. That the acts of these people
hnvc been exaggerated by politicians of the
other side, that tadical politicians, white
and black, have been guilty of equal, if not
greater offences, is all true. But tho fact
remains that the threatened emigration of
the negroes is 10 be traced to the conduct
of this class who seem to emulate the haMc
of bull 1ozcrs.
Let the men Of substance in each parish
the planters who depend upon the negroes
and upon whom the negroes depend, organ
ize themselves to protect and aid their own
laborers. Let them look to tho safety and
| Of ho :.
dound to their own advantage as well as TO
the happiness Of those who arc protected
Let them give due warning to all voators
OF the law that the era of peace has come;
in short, let the planters by a common
effort, and through the means Of an efficient
organization, secure to the blucks perfect
protection 10 their lives and property, and
in the civil and political rights, and the
exodus will chd
We have one word to add. Tho labor
question in tho South will only be finally
and satisfactorily settled when considera-
bic portion of the negroes become perma.
nehtly attached to the soil as renters under
long leases or os owners of small farms.
We cannot now elaborate the suggestion
But in some way let tho colored man under.
btand that, after all he may yet secure, here
in the South where he was born, among
those whom he has known from childhood
those ''furty acres aud Il mule"
Correspondents Of tho hew York Herald )
WASHINGTON, April 27, iS70--Mr.
King, Representative 10 Congress from
Louisiana, has received d letter from Con-
cordia Parish in that State, we'll known ID
the North and who owns several plantations
in Louisiana, and who, writes from
Concordia, under date of April 81, as fol-
lows:
We are oil very uneasy about tho Kansas
emigration Of the negroes, they being driven
and bulldozed away by their LEADERS,, even
those who do not wish to 90, and they arc
told that the government is to give them in
Kansas lands md mules, 30; that the
government will not allow them to remain
in this part Of the country; that tho Indians
| will be brought 10 to kill all who remain
at the end of eighteen months. An agent
passed through hero last week telling this
STORY, and another told them that the Queen
Of Spain has bought all of these lands and
and that if all do not clear out she will
have theni slaughtered. Every few days
some of those agents como along
with these lies. Tho negroes arc far
from Hiding thisj they come for protection
and tell us about it and they aro worried to
death, but thogovernment, they say, tells
them that thoy arc in mortal danger.
Never wefo things more prosperous than
now, but l very much fear that wc haze
great trouble ahead and tho moro public
you make the truth that the negroes are
really prosperous hero and do not wish to