The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-06-25

| would ben hear. write soon and let me know
i will close Mr.. Boston King.
Boston King is now back at his old planta
| ton home, wiser and more contented man
A TEACHERS STATEMENT.
| Another colored man, Mr.. John J. Kemp Of
| Greenville, Miss, school teacher, came here
4 to see for himself what prospects Kansas
| offered his race. He was astonished to find
| that there were no extraordinary inducements
to the colored immigrant in the way OF Tree
/ farm, free mules and free house. / will lei
! Mr. Kemp tell his story himself. / asked him
| to write out his narrative, and he presented
me, after several hours brain labor with the
| following lucid communication:
sCHooL-rEACHER KENP's ESSAY.
The all-absorbing topic of migration is still
| agitating the negro of the Mississippi Valley
about farm & free homes in Kansas. There
fore it is wise for to consider well before We
advise the black man to leave the South in
such large numbers, to leave their homes dear
to them, where they are known and where the
negro is certainly boss of his situation. But
it is like other things; it has bright side as
well as a dark one. The bright side is that
when We get to Kansas we will be just the
white man Is reckoned. Among the negroes
that went TO Kansas was found. / went after
several thousands had already been there and
few had returned, but found things not al
together as | thought before reached Kansas.
was very much disappointed In the coun-
try, but in the condition OF the negro, is far
behind representation. Their present condl-
ton is miserable in Kansas without some
strong arm to back them I'll admit that
there has been great deal of bulldozing in
the States from where these colored people
came from, but that can be altered and will
be done. Now the colored men migrating TO
Kansas are being shipped from city to city,
having nothing to do by which to obtain a
support for their wives and children. Cause
and effect-which is the worst, to be bulldozed
a little or to starve to death on the plains of
Kansas with not dollar? l believe Kansas
to be good place for the colored men if they
are provided for. They certainly lost all they
had in going to Kansas. 1t Is certainly his
veal or his woe; but here comes in another
clause, which is this, the men who are telling
of these precious homes will not go themselves
What do you think of that? Well, it is to be
pittied by the great heads of this republic, both
North and South, white and black.
l can say like this, it is a shame, sin, to go
to Kansas and see the present condition OF the
poor ignorant negroes, who are now being
used as cats paws to pull chestnuts from the
fire. That's what the relief committees at
St. Louis and other places are, so it is said by
parties that should know. My opinion is,
that it is sin to let those already there to suf
fer, but care should be taken in helping those,
that you don't cause more of it. My belief is
that one of the chief causes of this exodus, is
that we are told when We get to Kansas, that
we will get free farms, free mules, free houses,
all to the same churches, etc." but that not
many of us know better, and many do not.
A card from John J. Kemp of Greenville,
Miss, who has just returned from Kansas, and
failed to get his farm.
/ thought it better to let Mr.. Kemp say his
say in his own manner. He is bright fellow,
but rather lame in his literary style. His
meaning is clear enough. He expected social
equality in Kansas and didn't find it. He
hoped for free farm and house and mules, and
saw them not. Then his dander I" riz," and he
left Disguised