Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-04-18
THE COLORED MAN As AN

Line TACT OF some QIC66u uuuuIcu COloAOu
men women and children having left their
homes in Louisiana and Mississippi for
Kansas, and now being in much destltu-
ton in that state, should arouse the pity
of the whites who have been brought up
with them, however little it may affect the
sympathies of the Inhabitants of those
states who now see them for the first time
coming as immigrants and unwecome
ones. The news men. in the exercise OF
their ingenuity in speculation, have been
laboring to show that it is political
movement to carry Republican voters into
doubtful states and thus secure them, but
we greatly question the verify of the
statement. That since the move some
prominent Republicans have formed or
carnations to encourage it Is true. but
we doubt if they knew in advance any
mere about it than the employers whom
the blacks left. The fact is that upon this
ignorant class Of our people frauds can be
practiced with success that would be trans
parent to the other race. 1t does not need
ill treatment to make the black an emf
grant if even the most absurd promises of
prosperity are held out to him. There has
never, we believe, been set up any claim
| that this class of people in Virginia have
been cruelty treated, killed at the polls and
robbed of their wages, yet it has not been
a year since wide spread movement was
started in the capital of Virginia for a
colored emigration to Nebraska. Meetings
we're held and many enlisted for the exper-
iment under most plausible promises
But the Virginia black man is much the
superior in general intelligence and bust
| ness prudence of his brother in the South
ern states, and when he pricked the bubble
| to see what it contained, the brilliant hues
vanished and he Staid at home. Under
| favorable circumstances no true friend of
| the black would object 10 his emigrating
| to new land where slavery has not exist
ed. 1t would make man of him, giving
him such manhood as he will not attain in
the old States in generations to come But
it would be gained as all manhood is gain
ed through great suffering. His thriftless-
ness, his lack Of the love of labor, his want
of ambition, his failure in the little punct-
ualities of service, his yet dim comprehen-
sion of the value of reliability and the gener-
al from hand 10 mouth mode of living which
claracterizes the majority, though not all
of his race would make his residence
among the hardy, quick, active people of
the Western States a sore season of proba-
hot Il Il
valuable additions to state; but those
who failed, which would include the great
majority, would receive the most merciless
treatment. No man who understands
what blight the institution of slavery
has proved to the white man can doubt
for a moment that industry, Improvement,
greater thrift, great increase of power to
the Southern section Of the union would
quickly follow the substitution of white
for black labor, but no man with a touch
Of humanity in his heart could see these
helpless people going in blind droves to a
new country, new people and new GUS
toms without being moved by pity. Still
less could any man see them deceived as
the emigrants we have named have been
by such a falshood as the following which
was The cause Of the recent movement to
Kansas, and which having fallen into the
hands of the st. Louis ''Presbyterian"
I It makes public:
(Strictly Privately
ATTENTION COLORED MEN!
OFFICE CoLoREp ORGANIZATION SOCIETY,
TOPEKA, KAN, Feb. 2, 1879
l Your brethren and friends throughout the North
nave observed with painful socitude the outrages
leaped upon you by your rebel masters, and are do
ing ali they can to alleviate your mlSereS and pro-
vide for your future happiness and prosperity
President Hayes by his ubiquitous Southern policy
has deserted YOU while the Democrats who now
nave control OF Congress, will seek to re-enslave
| from their designs, the Colonization Society has
been organized by the government to provide land
bodies Of leo acres gratuitousiy This land is loca-
ted the best portion of Kansas in close proximity
TO Topeka, and is very uctlVe. Here there is
distinction in society, ali are on an equality leave
| the land of oppression and come to free Kansas
LKcURGus P p JONES,
| Show this circular to none but colored men, and
keep its contents secret.
The circular, it is alleged, with evidence
| to sustain the allegation, was gotten up by
Western railroad men to procure first the
| fare of the deluded blacks, and then the
purchase of the lands along their route, if
| the emigrants had money enough left. The
result has been what might have been ex-
| pected. AT each town the emigrants stop
| at, the citizens meet and provlde-not
work for them; not the one hundred and
| sixty acres of land, but funds to move
chem away from that neighborhood, care
less of where they may finally land or how
| much of suffering they may encounter.
The fraud has been cruel one, and it is
not likely that it can be repeated a second
time after these starving migrants have
worked their way back to their former
homes, and told their sau stories to their
more fortunate brethren who remained