Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-22
AN ORPHANS PICN IL.
The COIOred People will Picnic at ES
t.Val Park for the BENEFIT OF Can
field Orphan A sY Ium-The Exc
dus of COlOred People TO
be Considered and
Discussed.

The following communication from lead
ing colored citizen has baen sent to tn AP
PEAL for publication, and we make room tcr
it with pleasure, believing that both sides OF
every question should have hearing:
EDITORS APPEAL-Next Friday, the TWEEN
fifth instant, will be an important day TO
the citizens of Memphis, the Golofed people
especially. On that day picnic will be given
at Estivai park for the benefit OF the colored
orphans at the Garfield orphan asylum, an
object which cannot fail to commend itself to
the benevolent of whatever race or class. In
order 10 meet the popular demand, the varied
and choice attractions OF this public resort
will be afforded 10 the public at a merely
nominal expense. There will be no lack of
either refreshments or amusements. Every
luxury and delcacy Of the season will
be served at the reireshment tables
IN the greatest abundance, and the line of
amusements will comprise every thing that
is Customary at such observation-disclosures
and sports for the old and young, grave and
gray, male and female. The object for
which this entertainment Is gotten up Is to
afford assistance to one OF the noblest lnstl-
buttons of Shelby county, and it Is expected
that not only the colored, but the white citi-
zens, also, will extend liberal patronage to
the enterprise. The civil and military organ
lzAtions OF the colored people will turn out,
aud large number of representative mel,
white and colored, will be present, not
merely Tor relaxation, but also fer the pur-
pose Of comforting together with regard to
the matter of the emigration or the colored
people, which is now attracting so much at
tention, and to consider the proprlety of
sending delegates to the Vioksburg
convention on the fifth of May. There has
| been a great deal said and written upon the
| colored exodus within the last few weeks,
and undoubtedly much that should never
have been SAID or written, but there Is some
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| munity that no one has had the proper oppor-
tunity to say; and this occasion will afford
| that opportunity, which will, no doubt, be
| improved by those who are capable of saying
the right thing. The evidences of deep
seated and wide spread dissatisfaction among
! the colored laborers of the cotton and sugar
| growing States-a dissatisfaction not pro-
| duced by polihclans-are plain and conclus-
i've. 1t remains for US to accept the fact, a.
certain the causes which produce it, and seek
a remedy. To affirm that the colored people
of those States are comfortable and prosper
Gus, and should, therefore, be contented and
happy. and to assume that they are short
sighted aud foolish in emigrating to Kansas
| or any other northern or western State, and
true friends, and that the northerners are ut
terly selfish and unfriepdly as q rule, while II
may afford profound satisfaction to those who
entertain these views, does not satisfy, and
! will not convince the Intelligent and OBJ
servant men of this or any other community;
neither will it check in the slightest degree
this alarming hegira. We invite the
journalists and public men of this community
to more dispassionate consideration of this
matter than has yet been had
We do seriously and honestly think tha
the discussion of this question through the
columns of the Memphis papers has not beer
wholly unbiased; not because the editors o
our journals are necessarily more prejudiceC
than editors generally are, but rather BECAUSE
they may not have seen both sides of tn
question clearly. We think they are capable
OF seeing both sides as they should be seen
and propose to present good opportunity t.
do so at the picnic next Friday. And W
think that free and full discussion of thi
matter between ourselves at this juncture will
30 a vast amount Of good TO all concerned
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