Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-03-20

out any means, and it would be cruelty to
send them out to Kansas In tk1t condition.
Kansas might decidedly object to have them
thrown upon its charity. Then, again, If the
present number were furnished free Transport
tation west, how would the board act when an
other boat had arrived ?-for on Sunday night
the Grand Tower will land FIVE hundred
more. The resources of the board would be
used up in very short time. All these
points were discussed by the board yesterday.
A resolution came near being adopted not to
help the negroes now In the city wanting to
go west. 1t was not carried, however, as it
made an invidious comparison. But one was
adopted declaring that the board could not
assist colonies to emigrate, but only families,
intending bona ride to settle. The board re-
cognizes its duty in treating negroes the
same as white people; but at the same time
it does not like to shoulder the responsibility
of sending out to Kansas colored people with
out tn means to settle. So it is very unlike
ly that it will transport any of them west
unless they have reasonable amount of
money. In order to secure proper distribu-
ton of the one hundred dollars appropriation,
the board has secured the services of Rev.
Nj. Lack, the superintendent of the Provi-
dent association. He has seen that none of
the negroes have hungered, aud early this
morning he will be on hand at the levee to
deal out bread to as many as need it.
THE ADVICE OF MAYOR ovERsToLz
sea as the Mullanphy board. While he is
willing to do all in his power, he is afraid to
set up the precedent of feeding starving i'm
migrants, for that would encourage others
to come and depend upon the charity of the
city. He is very emphatic in his declaration
that the negroes, in their present condition,
should not be brought to st. LOUIS. There Is
an ordinance imposing fine of twenty-five
dollars to three hundred dollars upon any
railroad or steamboat company bringing
paupers to the city, when they are liable to
be charge upon it, and police justice can
require bond from the company of one
thousand dollars to insure their support while
here. Yesterday the mayor told prominent
commission merchant that he would to-day
institute proceedings which would put a stop
to the steamboats, trlngin2 up dependent
people. But a nice question of law here
arises: The steamboat companies are COM
mon carriers. All the negroes pay their pas
sage-that is all the company can require of
them in this regard. 1t is held that the COM
pany has 10 right to ask passenger whether
he has any money over and above his pas
sage. Every day letters and kilograms are
being received by commission men and stear
boat and railroad companies In regard r, the
matter. At one landing In LouisiS- "a the
other day, there were nine hund" ad neonIe
waiting for the boats to bring thor, 70 81
Louis. kll along the banks = tba river tbe
negroes sit with their hoU' ahoid trans aronnd
them. In the daytime thew wave Their hats
10 St'i"es the @t' -ntion of upward sound
ooats' ana az ms, at they light fires and
CHARGE FIRE ARMS.
tAe mite people of Mississippi and
~ ma are alarmed at the stampede.
~ are afraid that the muscle which has
-ltherto worked their plantations will desert
them. In some counties and parishes negroes
cannot be employed at double the usual rates.
Yesterday telegram was received from s.
w. Davis, of Vlcksburg, asking whether ne
could get fifteen hands to 90 back. But none
OF the men or women would return. The re-
porter had conversations with great many
of them, yesterday. With unanimity which,
to say the least, Is painfully significant, they
one and all declared that they would sooner
die than go down south again. The life OF
plantation hands In Mississippi and Louisiana
they depict as young hell A man and his
family will lease land at ten dollars an acre,
and work all through the year, and IN a ma
jority of cases will find themselves In debt,
through the barbarous store system, by
which the whole years crop Is mortgaRed
before it is gathered. A number of men said
that by this system they had paid over SIX
hundred dollars for a common mule, and
then it was not theirs at the end.
HORRIBLE STORIES
are told By them also of cruelties and murders
for political opinions. One old uncle said
that a few days age, IN one or the MISSISSIPPI
counties, a white boy insulted a colored
woman, and because she replied to him the
woman was dragged through the town,
stripped and horsewhipped. Another man,
an athletic young fellow, showed scars on his
arms where he had been recently whipped,
and he says that If he had not escaped dur
ing the night and hidden in a dense swamp
he would have been killed Last night,
those of the poor creatures who had not been
temporarily taken charge of by the colored
people of the city, slept underneath tarpaullns
on the levee or ON one of the wharf boats.
THE RAILROADS DENY RESPONSIBILITY.
ut is but right to state that the Kansas
Pacific and the Missouri Pacific and the Kan
sas railroads deny all responsibility for bring
ing up destitute negroes. 1t decidedly hurts
instead of beneftIng them to take them on
their lines. Any colored man will be taken
under the same conditions as q white man,
but no man Is carried free unless he pur-
chases land. Even if government land is
taken, several hundred dollars are required
for expenses. Hundreds of the white people
from the south, fearing another yellow-teyer
epidemic, are settling in Kansas and Colo
RADIO, but they have means. Mr.. Agar,
agent Of the Kansas Pacific, says there are
large numbers of negro emigrants at Kansas
City,whO are in just as bad condition as those
here. There is a colored settlement at Ellis,
Kansas, but even there man who is broke
stands but little chance"
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