Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-03-21
GOING TO KANSAS.
The COIOred People Moving Northwest
to Kansas from Middle Tennessee,
Mississippi and LOuistana-In
West Tennessee the Col
Cred People Oppose
the scheme.

An APPEAL commissioner yesterday gave a
further investigation to the subject of the I'M
migration OF southern negroes to Kansas.
Several intelligent colored men expressed
themselves as opposed to this scheme of de-
populatlng louisiana and Mississippi of COL
ored people, and colonizing Kansas and other
north western States. They said that the
scheme originated in Louisiana, and was
gotten up by preachers, bat that politicians
had taken held Of it for political purposes.
They believed that emlssarles were travelling
throughout the southern States, melting the
ignorant c0lored people to abandon their
| homes and go TO Kansas, where they were ln-
formed they would be taken care OF and be
given government lands free; that
they could get plenty of employment in the
north west, and would enjoy peace and plenty
therein. This accounts for the startling ex-
odUs OF colOred people from portions of Lou
isiaaa and Mississippi. In West Tennessee
! this movement has secured no toothOld, and
but few colored people wish to go to Kan
sas. The reason given for the exodus
S that Ia very many instances the colored
abOring men, or teld-hands, are sWindIed
and cheated by their white employers, and
| that they have no redress because they can
| moi afford to go to law, and have no means
| to carry on litigation. Several instances oil
| this kind that occurred IN counties adjacent
| to Memphis were cited to CUR commissioner
| as examples of bad treatment Our inform
ants added that In May next a convention Of
co.ored men viii be held at Nashville, wher
| the Kansas emigration scheme will be con.
| sidered and discussed. 1t Is intended to SEND
| delegates from Memphis in opposition to the
! emig alton movement.
! THE EXODUS.
| TIE Nashville Banner describes the exodus
! Of cOlored people from Middle Tennessee II
! the following Tanner: lone hundred ne
1 i IL |, e..
| Of the Louisville and Nashville and Great
| Southern railroad, and seventy-fve left fol
| the same State by way Of the st. Louis anc
| Southeastern railway. The Banner commits.
sioner, who was on the spot, solemnly AYERS
| that the one hundred and seventy-iiye emil
I giants were escorted to the train by at least
| seventeen handred and fifty relatives, friends
ard acquaintance. The depots and the
| thoroughiare in the immediate vicinity were
| densely crowded with persons OF all shades
| of colSr, sizes, ages and condition. There
we're aged 'uucles' who were bidding perhaps
their last farewell to the sweet sunny south,
where they spent the happiest years of then
chequered lives; cid 'aunties' who had
| 'nussed all OF 'massa chlllen, and
were taking their final glance at a
| land rendered near and dear by
| ties of blood and tender recoilections; young
| zlrl5 who were to drift out on the tempestuous
| sea Of life IN strange State, where the eyes
OF white friends cannot see them; young men
| whose strong arms are needed IN the corn and
| cotton fields of tennessee and other States,
and little children, whose parents were ex-
| changing Tennessee, with its schools and
other advantages, FIR sphere where they
| cannot so well rear their offspring. After
receiving messages for those who had pre-
ceded them to the blooming fields of Kansas,
and uttering farewells, the emigrants boarded
| the train; the bell rang, the locomotive
whistled, the wheels revoiV' d, and the trains
moved slowly out of the depots. Every heart
| was beating with joyful antEipations of a
bright and prosperous future, and Kansas
| stock ruled exceedingly high"
A Vicksburg paper Of late date contains
the following information on the same sub
ject: We are indebted to Mr.. II. ii. FAIR
child, of the elevator, for copy of the sub
| jcIned telegram. MIR. Fairchiid says be heard
one of the wOuld-be emigrants say Jay or
two ago that he was very comfortably stu
ated, was working on bis own land, and had
made some little money every yea that he
did not wish to leave, beng satisfied that he
could do better in this country than else
where, bat that he had been told that it
would not be healthy for him to remain; that
| there was to be another war as soon as the
next crop is made, and that all the negroes
| were to be killed Hho remained in this conn
try. Another negro who was with him said
he TOO had been so informed, and he was
afraid to stay. They were finally convinced
Of the absurdity of such reports, and returned
ID then homes satisfied. The sc0undrels who
are going through the country circulating
| such reports as these to poison the minds of
| the negroes should be dealt with severely if
they can be Overtaken:
ST. LOUIS, March IS, 1879.
Captain E. C. Carroll, Superintendent Elevator:
AL negro emigrants coming here will be
quaIantlned. JOHN A. SCUDDER.