The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1879-06-28


in the nature Of passports, aud the negroes
think that with these they can pass any
where without money and without price.
Somebody has told them so aud they gulp
down the most absurd rumors and the
widest assertions, provided they come in-
directly enough. II Is very difficult to
lind out just who are acting as emissaries
On one plantation a man hired himself as
a wood-chopper aud did chop for a time,
acting all the while as an agent among the
negroes. When he had done this he
crossed the river and sent back his
compliments with letter saying that
wood.chopping was not his business. Con.
way is the leader in the whole matter. /
He is the carpetbagger and cx-Sehool
Fund Commissioner Of Louisiana, and he
is making good thing out Of his agitation.
Money is pouring into his hands from va
rious quarters to be used 10 sending out
emissaries 10 rouse up the colored people
81 think the best way to deal with them
is to let them go and get thoroughly sat
is6ed. Just before | came here | heard
that over 100 hands from little place Of
mine near the river had stopped short and
were getting ready TO start for Kansss.
They wished to see me and went. They
had the flags and were firing off guns and
raising great rumpus like so many luna
tics. asked them where they were go-
ing, but they did not know. | told them
that such move was foolish, and to avoid
getting them into trouble offered to allow
them to pick out two men from among
themselves whose expenses to Kansas
would pay and who could make arrange
ments for meeting the rest Of the company
when it arrived They agreed to this, and
went back TO their quarters, but though
several times sent to find out who the two
men were they have not yet been picked
out. In the counties where the first of
the companies started some have come
back, but when they come back and tell
the truth they are charged with being
brought up by the "enemies Of the colored
people" The negroes have got an idea;
too, in some way that Indians arc to come
down aud massacre them all if they stay
where they are, aud in thousand differ.
ent ways the credulity of the negro has
been worked upon to get him away from
his present place. The p,otipe, no doubt
Is 10 make political capital The brains
Of the movement are in Washington, where
statesmen may be found who will aetuall,
say that the movement is for the benef
Of the colored people
"ln Kansas | understand they do no
meet with a very hospitable reception
The white laborers will not work besid,
them and should not be surprised TO sel
the State Of Kansas 60 Democratic mex
fall as consequence Of this Republical
device Of sending such class Of peopl
among them. The negroes arc entirel
right where they are and entirely wron
where they are going to. So far the EN-
igrants have been of the poorer class q
laborers and in places here aud there u
hill and on the low districts. A grea
many who do not now go seem TO has
I made up their minds to 60 10 the ia
when they get money from the cottoi
E picking. By that time, however, it ma
, be that those in Kansas viii have to con
back in sufficient number TO break th
: force Of the exodus. If it is not so
would not be surprising to see the whol
force Of pickers set of in the middle {
the season. A good hand can pick 40
} pounds Of cotton day, and at FIVE bits tn
hundred can make about SO. They car
not do better in Kansas. | have been il
! quiring about getting force Of 100 CHI
: namen to take hold Of the picking
don't like them at all for general work bu
} the picking must be covered. The CHI
: nese are full Of rascality. They woul
) not scruple to slip in stone or two to q
J up the weight, and unless you watch thei
with the sharpest eyes they will rob 70
under your very nose. They viii rob III
! gins in the morning Of cotton and pass
: in as fresh picked. The negroes are III
} quickest pickers, but the Cinnamon d
cleaner work. Gangs Of Portuguese hay
been found 10 work Well in the sugar RI
gions, and there is some talk Of supplyin
the plantations with them.
Thus far no great damage has bee
: done, none which can be directly calcull
, ted, but that is due to remarkable SCI
son for the crop rather than to any extr
care by the hands. What loss will be ID
Cured if the exodus becomes more ger
, eral before the picking season is over It
impossible to say. 1t will be very serior
! and would produce very much distress
Mississippi. The sending down Of emil
saries TO lure away The colored people
precisely such work as if we should com
North to Fall River and tell the oper,
tiyes there set Of lies TO get them 10 rus
of somewhere. | have not heard Of an
attempt TO check the exodus. woul
E rather do the reverse. | remember on
case Of an old woman who had been in II
families Of one Of the little places bough
7 She wanted to stay, aud said yes,
course, and she had her cabin and got b,
rations regularly. One day the agel
said she wanted S2 to 20 to Kansas.
. aid;-"Yes, give her $40 aud harness d
a team 10 the wagon to start her of
Now, what use was il 10 her to 20 Onl
. she had an idea that il was ever 30 muc
near "Jordan, If not all the way ther,
The people are crazy, that is all, aud whe
S they get over il they will--if they ean-
: come back. have sent an agent out
Kansas with instructions to use his judl
ment about sending them back when Il
fever dies out. The negro preachers an
deaeons arc full Of il, aud preach Il in tho
pulpits, making plenty Of converts anon
the women, aud thoy spread Il 10 neigl
borhood. When the sending back tin
! comes those whom We don't want viii
, leif, you may be sure.
"Of all cmigrants The negro Is the mo
: improvident He will rush anywhere 4
rations. You win remember how whs
: the yellow fever prevailed the negro
would flock into the towns from all par
Of the country for thirty miles back, saI
ing the chances af the fever Just for Il
. rations, and / actually DO believe that ii
boat should 50 along the river Inbellt
NTo HelI-Frce Rations, the negro
Q would swamp the boat. It's prepostefol
! to expect that ncgroca will lay in coal an
provisions for 4 Six months winter. o.
they did the stores would bo used up
three months The snopemenf Is intsitlt
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