Daily globe., 1879-05-15
TIE NEGRO EXODUS.


of the country to raise fund for the relief
of the negroes who are now on their way
from their Southern homes to the promised
land in Kansas. Tho newspapers are filled
| with accounts of the poverty of the emlgrants,
and tho imagination of tho writer's is tor
tured in depicting the terrible sufferings they
will have to endure before they can become
self-supporting in the country to which they
are Aocking.
While the GLOBE is not willing to aoknowl-
cdgo itself lacking in charity, or indifferent
to tho sufrerings of any living being, it is
constrained to give warning that the surest
way to encourage and increase pauperism is
to heed the appeals that are now being circu-
lated. We do not think that the emergency
demands the exercise of any charity whatever.
The hegra that is now in progress from the
| South is absolutely causeless and lnexcusa
BILE. Not All individual of the thousands
who are rushing pell-mell for Kansas can
give any reason for his conduct. Ninety
nine out of every hundred are ignorant of
the character of the country to which they
are go ing, and apparently possess less in
telligence than tho average animal. They
leave homes whore they have been kindly
treated and been able to earn comfort
bic livelihood for o frontier life which
none Of them are qualified to fill and whero
they must inevitably become public charge.
Thoy have no wrongs to complain OF. A
few have given currency to the most dis
| Of lioho1iuO, rncfioa6
upon them by the whites of the South, but
those were SO evidently suggested by the men
who interviewed them, were the resnlt
of an afterthought that they have received
no credence whatever from any sensible
person. The fact remains and is patent to
every reasonable man that they left their
homes blindly, and are rushing blindly to
} some imaginary land that flows with milk
and honey. 1t is to be regretted that the
J movement has received any encouragement
whatever; it will be more to be regretted if
tue people of the country, through mistaken
| notions of charity, shall contribute to what
r every person must see is bound to he an
3 immense army of paupers.
1t IS acknowledged on every hand that an
} average of three hundred dollars will be nee
y essary to maintain a family on farm il
Kansas or anywhere else until crop can bt
t raised. This is in addition to what may bt
. necessary to purchase domestic utensils
: agricultural implements, and horses ant
: cattle. None of the negroes have dollar
o and few of them have the capacity to earl
| fo, %hoi,,
d therefore have to be converted into per
: petual fund. They will never become self
i supporting, but will constitute public bur
: den that will have to be borne for years t.
IS come. 1t is mistaken philanthropy tha
IS induces any man to contribute in the slightes
} degree to the present emigration. It is a
o encouragement offered to pauperism-onl
Q this and nothing more.
If The plantation negroes of the South ar
/ not desirable accession to the population Q
y the Northwestern States. For til
1t most part they are a lazy, ignorant
T. good for nothing set, who pre-
ID fer to live upon what they ca
70 steal rather than upon what they ca
re earn. Those who have come North al
4 represented as the lowest and most deprave
is of their class, lacking in everything br
m brute instinct. We can pity the commun
v ties into which they are pouring; we hay
E. no sympathy to waste upon them. If phi
ve anthropy is to take any form at all, it ougl
We to be directed to stopping the mad hegir
be It can be productive of no good to the colore
he race. The climate of the North is uncol
rs genial, and the avenues of industry are a
lily ready filled to repletion. AS farm lahore
er- they may fill want for a few weeks in 9
as cry year, but for the rest of the time thu
re- and their families will have to subsist
ng charity. It is crime to permit contin
nat ance of this folly-a crime upon the negro,
is and still greater outrage upon the co,
es- munities that will be compelled to suffer
nj their advent.