The weekly clarion., 1879-02-19
Wore About the Threatened Exc
odusOf aEe CoIOred Population.

that State, now in Washington, that l., /
one of the Clinton assassins, or Jefferson I
county rioters, who are harbored and /
quartered on the public treasury, by the
fraudulent Administration which t
the following extract is published;
| verilv believe the proposition OF Sena- +
tor Window To afford Us an opportunity 70 /
remove to some state where our rights will I
be protected is the only real and practical /
solution OF the negro question. 1ou may I
tally one for me in benalt Of that measure /
Permit me % assure you, however, that Ger +
tain forces are already at work bringing |
about the same result that Viii follow the /
passage ofthe Senator's bill. There Is an /
extensive exodus of cOlOred labor from TINS (
county going at this time, and | am reliably |
Informed that over 500 have left for Kansas |
from the neigh bnf hood of Edwards Depot, /
Kinds County. II transportation aud relIa- /
ble information OF the advantages onereu Dy
some of she Western states could be lur-
ni.bed actually believe that Mississippi |
would be depopulated, as far a. our peOp'e
are concerned. in two years. And to prove
that the whites are becoming alarmed at 4
movement that threatens 10 become disas-
| trous to the material interests of the coun-
! Is as the withdrawal of so much OF its boue
| aud sinew | send oy this mail j copy OF the
| Reveille, the town paper, with certain az
| ticles marked. to which call your atten-
rectiOn of the wind.
| We do not remember that our contem
pnrary, the Reveille, has said anything
to indicate serious alarm. Certainly the
extract from its columns accompanying
the letter does not prove such state of
feeling. We do not know who the au-
thor of the letter Is, but we take il for
granted that he is a halfbreed who is
not satisfied with the way God Almighty
has made him. Probably he has had
taste of Office during the blackand-tan
saturnalia, and longs for another chance
at the fesh-pots If this is the case, he
may 90 to any of the Western States
or to any of the Northern States, or the
New England States-or to any other
spot in Goods country and if he lives
to be as old as Methusaleh, he will not
get employment as field laborer-nor
as mechanic-nor in other manual la
Dor employment of any kind except ofthe
most menial description-a waiter in a
hotel, a porter, or boot-bIack, until all
others are served. Everybody knows
that in the Northern States, the negro
is tabooed even as a laborer. In politics
he cuts small figure; aud in Massachu-
setts, and probably some other Northern
Ssates, he can not vote unless he IS ed
ucated.
How this Port Gibson complainant ex-
poets to benefit his condition or that of
his race, by the proposed exodus to that
region, we can not imagine. Here in the
South, their labor is in demand. Under
Democratic rule they are protected in the
enjoyment of its earnings. They are in
all respects the equals of the whites be
fore the law. They enjoy equal common
school advantages with the whites, though
most of the taxes by which they are pro
vided with these benefits are paid by the
whites. They vote freely, and some
times they fill public offices. Here in
jackson, the capital of the bulldozng
State of Mississippi, they are to De seen
at any time wearing the policeman's
badge They sit at the council board of the
CITY fathers. One of the Representatives in
the Legislature from the great county of
Kinds is a we'll ordered colored citizen of
the pure African blood and he was
elected by Democratic votes.
What the complainant means by hav-
ing 'an opportunity to remove to some
State where our rights (of the colored
man will be protected" we can not un'
derstand, They are free people and
and have the same opportunity so fan
as the laws affect them, of going and
coming where they listeth, that other
people have. Of this, they may rest as
sured: they will not be provided gratis
in the North with forty acres and 6
mule" nor political office, nor any
privileges that they do not enjoy in the
, South They Will have to earn theil
living by the sweat of their face, only
, they will not find the same demand fol
i their labor and will constitute small fac
in the industrial forces of their new
homes. Politically they will amount tc
nothing.
All this talk about their migration
from the South, is the invention of
! demagogues. 1t is to play on the cred
Q ulity of the negro and make him imagi int
that he is the victim of some grea
wrong; and to play on the passions o
uninformed Northern people who have
been taught to maintain the Repu blicar
= party upon the idea that its mission il
: to protect the weak against the strong
and that it has not yet been accomplished
& There 10 but one way for the responsible
: classes of the South to deal with the
e matter, and that is to persist in doing
l right-in treating the colored peopl,
$ justiy-and then let consequences take
: care of themselves. If they are deter
It and restless schemers of their own race
and to listen to the syren song of tn,
n political agitators who have been thei
], worst enemies ever since their emanci
Is paton-we can only say, let them alone
e let them go in peace. Probably th
b scales will fall from their eyes in tim,
and useful lesson will be learned.
, they never come back, in the course o
time not far distant their places will b.
supplied by European and Northern
u white immigrants who are now deferred
{ from settling in the South because o
their repugnance to competition witt