Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-03-23

discreditabls error, that Christ and his apes
ties taught that Sunday was the Saba of
the fourth commandment?
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THE FOOR DELUDED NEGRO.
The cIeduity, the superstition, and the
self-delusion of the coi5red race excites the
pity and the commiserajion of the pillar
throp st. Simple and unsuspicious, they can
be cajo!ed and made to believe any a6sIrdi-
ty When It was proclaimed they were free,
irnprl ssed with the belief that freedom meant
idleness, they renoUnced labor and lcupRed
and loitsrcd il Incidence. which Is properly
characterized as the DEVILS workshop. The
Ignorant AID inexperienced corn field labor
er exchanged the cotton patch for the hust-
irgs. aud eyery coored sulragpu was Trans
f,rmed INTO a politician They were made
20 believe dat they were the "waGds OF the
nat Oh, " t. te iGrn,sht d with "a mule and
toIty pcr,s Of land" and they exchanged
honest labor fer the loyal leagues, where
they met sud lock hurried oaths against tie
hites and Democrats They sooD discov-
ersd that tL,y were imposed upon 10y the ad-
vaaturers who were Ulirg them fer selfish
purposes. But jLey seem incapable OF irott-
ing by experience. Freedom is not to hem
the luxury which they had antici-
rated, and instead Of becoming contI nted
and making an honest effort to wolk out
their own destiny, they wander eff after
some rev aJsudity. Eighteen months ago
tie negroes thrcue hout the south were fran
tic about emigration to Liberia. At their
meetings. On Sunday, and in their soclaI
gatherings, zothiDR was discussed but Libe-
ria. It was repre- ssnted as a land flowing
with milk and honey. Finally it was an
D0unced that 2 steamer was about to sail
from Charleston 10 this new EI Dorado.
Nearly every colored person in The south
wanted to take passage on this ship, with
cut money, clothes or any of the necessary
comforts Of ljfe Charleston was overrun
with the blacks. The police vas forced to
protect the vessel from tie mob about to take
possession Of it. The vessel started for Lii
IBERIA with O few hundred emigrants. Near
Is half died on the voy9ge, and all that
reached Liberia are dissatisfied and anxious
to return TO the homes they abandoned, and
which, they say, is a paradise in
comparison with the horrors they are endur-
ing. THIS experience has not cured the ne
gro of his creduhly. They seem to think
that there is more pleasure in the pursuit
than the possession of an ob ect. They seem
t. realize pleasure in self-delusiop, in build
ing airy castles, and as soon as one vagary
explodes they are deluded by another still
more pTeposterous. As fast rs one humbug
rots down another sprouts upon its grave.
Two months ago a mischevous wag v his
pered confdentially INTO the ear Of the per-
slit GUS negro that early in March the world
was TO be visited by what was called the
"red Winds" which were to come loaded
with poison, disease and death, and winch
would sweep every living thing from the
face Of the earth. The poor, deiuded negro
for The past two months has dreamed and
talked Of nothing but the red winds" He
regarded the gentle whisperiags of the
evening breez. as q lrslGde to the red
winds," which were about to burst upon
the world. The colored preacher, by
dapialirg the horrors of the coming
tempest Of death, converted his church into
hcvling bsdlam OF mourning sinners.
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in.1 her husbands pants instead Of her own
pet,.coats, and ia preparing tie hash Tor
broadcast listened Tor the blast on which she
was 20 g5d- so glory. But this silly aad stu
pid hob goblin hs played out but the col
cred people Jaye learned nCthipg. They are
still ready 10 embrace with fanatcism any
new vaEary, propagated fer the sole purpose
Of deludiug them. The sudden and crazy |
desire of the negro TO emigrate to Kansas |
Is born Of this spirit of superstition aud Gre
dIli'y. A few months since Senator Ingalls,, |
of nsas. introduced visionary BILL pro- |
posing 10 set upart lands IN insas for coll |
o-,d c.Iou'z aiou. lie advantages of this |
bill have been grossly exaggerated by the |
c5.lreJ people. itey axe now aS auxiois to |
!. move 10 Xmas as they We're to emig. ate |
10 LIB ria twelve months ago. The exodus
from Mississippi, Louisiana and Arkansas has
assumed large proportions. 1t is reported |
that the banks Of tae Mississippi river are
lined with negroes, who hail steamboats,, ex-
pecting to be carried to K4lsss, without
mercy, clothes or food. Two thousand men,
v omen and children from these States have
reached st. LOUIS on their way to Kansas,
where they expect to fad everything in
abundance aud to live in ease and luxury
without work To show how credulous and
easily deluded the negro IS, we give the fol-
lowing extract of a Letter written fr5ul VIcks-
burg TO the New OIeaus Democrat:
Tie Eegroes in this part OF the country have the
Kansas fever" They have In a manner quilt work
ana are preparing 10 20 10 Kansas with General
Sherman who IS now In New Orleans with his
rCops, so they Say The report IS that the United
states government has set Kansas apart as a nrgTO
-tate and will give ~ family free land and five
hundred dollars 10 money, build houses. etc, and all
hat are here after the fifteenth OF March will be
Silled, b. order Of President Hayes, who turned
Democrat. The devil himself could not get this
Iun out OF their heads.
These poor creatures reach st. Louis PEN
liiess, unable TO get 10 their destination OF to
eturn me. They ara a nuisance to the
ity Of ST. Louis, where they are paupers.
even after they get to Kansas they are no
,etter eff, for, without capital to begin farm
Nc, they can do nothing, aud their labor is
lot wanted, as they are unskjlled il north
ID farming. Ire result is they finds them
elves paupers among strangers, and
yIu soon be kicked and cuffed ard
a.ed as 10 the Cinnamon by those
Sjth whose labor they come In competition.
An end will soon be put to the emigration Of
he negro into Kansas. So soon as the peo-
,ie see that they are about to be overrun
with horde Of paupers the taxpayers will
oppose a further influx, and the laboring
masses will drive them from the State Just
s the people of California have warred
pom the Chinese because they sap and
estroy the foundations of the prosperity of
he State and the laboring classes. How
yer anxious we may be to secure foreign !