Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-10-08
THE BLACK MANS WRONGS.
Threats Against the Emfssarfes Sent
10 WashiDgsOh---A New Trick to Ne
tard Emigration.


tard Emigration.
Dispatch to the N. Y Times.
WASHINGTON, September 3O.-The
two colored men who recently arrived
here as agents of the colored people of
the Second congressional district of
North Carolina, and whose statements
of the hsrdships that prompt the colored
people to emigrate were published in the
Times, called at the Times Washington
office to say that their published state
ments have somewhat stirred UP the
white people in their section of the
country. The have received let
tiers from colored friends in North
Carolina, telling them that it would not
be safe to return home just yet, as the
whites are highly incensed, and threaten
to do violence to the two agents for hay
ing expressed themselves so freely to the
Tunes correspondent regarding the con-
dition of the people in the south. Intel.
ligence has also been received of q
stratagem on the part of the whites to
prevent the threatened exodus this
tall. They propose to keep back the
money due to the colored people, and
to purchase cotton and other crops
upon credit, or for scrip only.
In cases where colored men rent
farms, the landlords will not consent to
the sale of the crops until they receive
their one-third rent, and will decline to
receive their portions for several
months to come, which, under the land
lord and tenant act, passed for their
especial benefit, they have a perfect
right to do. By thus Withholding from
the colored people their just dues, they
hope to keep them penniless and defeat
the emigration movement, the probable
ity of which is causing undisguised
alarm in the south.
Prof. Langston, the minister of the
United States to Hayti, who is now on q
visit to this city, in reply to question
asking tor his views on the subject of the
negro exodus, said: g For certain reasons
which seem sufficient to me, [ am in
favor of the exodus. I have no conf
dence in the permanent elevation of the
colored people while they remain in the
midst of scenes of their former enslave-
ment, with the old master class and the
old overseers, not only dominant as
owners of the soil and the possessors of
education and intelligence, but in many
localities superior in numbers. By these
means they control the laboring classes.
AS the emancipated classes must always
be, certainly during the early years
following their emancipation, new
scenes and new surroundings seem
to me to be absolutely indis-
pensable to render them conscious
of their freedom and responsibilities in
the new and even more difficult ways of
life. Besides, there is such an excess of
laborers in the south, made necessary by
the old order of slavery, that emigration
seems to be indispensable to bring about
a state Of things that will give remuner-
alive labor to those who remain in the
SOUTH"
Mr.. Langston was for several years at
the head of Howard university, in this
city, and is regarded here as one of the
most learned colored men in the country
By request, he will lecture here next
week, and will come out boldly in favor
of the negro emigration movement, and
criticise and answer Frederick Douglass
recent paper on that subject.
The Northern Press and the South.
A Washington dispatch to the Inter-
Ocean says; In private conversation,
southern Democrats here complain bit
terly of the treatment of their section by
the press of the north. They allege that
all the great northern papers seemed to
have joined the Radicals in the southern
crusade. In New York some of the
frst-class papers defend the south, but
have all gone to lecturing that section
on assassination and reputation. In
Boston nothing else was expected, but
that Democratic New York should join
in the crusade southern Democrats think
is discouraging. In Chicago all of
the great dailies have gone to
preaching sermons to the south in the
most aggravating manner. The Times,
which used to be a sort of southern
organ, and was largely and approvingly
quoted in the south, has turned around
and now calls the southern people bar
barians. AS to the Cincinnati newspa-
pers, it is complained that they unite
more or less energy in denouncing the
south. The German papers in all the
northern cities have taken up the cry,
and there are none of them that pretend
to use their editorial columns in defense
of the south. Southern men say that it
is the first time since the war that the
press has given way to the waves of Sec
tional prejudice. They are much discour-
aged at the outlook. They fear solid
north at the next election, which will cut
them off from the fat federal Offices for
four years more. Many of the more
thoughtful Of the southern Democrats
now believe that it would be better for
their party, as whole, if the south was
not so solid. They see that solid
south tends to throw all the northern
states into the Republican party, which
gives that party control of the govern
ment. There has not been time since the
war when southern Democrats in Wash
ington were so discouraged at the politi-
cal prospects as now.
Getting Their ShOt-Guns Ready.
From the N. Y. Tribune.
The South Carolina chivalry are get
ting their shot-guns into working order
again, it seems. The shooting of Nix
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