The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-07-02
| The Negro Exodus and Radical
Demagoguery.

1here Is no use to shoot Niagara.
V No use to appeal to the reason Of the
roaring, ranting, f;lnatical mob in Boston
+ who assembled the other day to consid-
er the Negro Exodus in the South but
: there are intelligent reasoning people
IN the North to whose judgment truth
and argument may be addressed with
good effect. To the latter we would say
that the pretence upon which Conway
and his coadjutors are raising money to
charter steamboats, to be sent down the
Mississippi river to transport colored
emigrants, viz: that they are denied
the right Of going where they choose,
and are prevented by the planters, is a
a talsehood manufactured out Of whole
cloth. The negroes have gone whenever
they pleased without let or hindrance.
The steamboats, have TRANSPORTED them
IN many cases, IN numbers larger than
the law which was enacted for the
protection of human life, allowed. 1t
is talsehood, therefore, which ssParson"
Conway deliberately disseminates when
he said before his Boston audience that
1t is not ''our fault, (the monosvllabIe
our represents the knaves and fanatics
of the Conway stripe) ''that a boat has
to be sent down the Mississippi river for
the purpose of providing transportation
for our oppressed colored fellow-citizens \
1t is the fault of the planters, the land 1
owners and the politicians of the South"
And then he goes on with this sort of
rant: h
We simply take the situation lust As if i
We lind thousands of our fellow-nen and fell
low-citizens deprived of their liberty to travel
even though they offer the usual rates of fare {
ms DENIAL this forced detention of these
people, make them slaves if not sometbing
worse. There being no other wav nv ybin6 a
they can get transportation, we propose To :
charter a boat and go to them and supplv \
transportation. The Press of Mississippi saws C
we shail not be allowed to go down into that .
rellglon on TINS mercltul and lawful Grand +
ren. Chalmers, a prominent Congressman t
rom the State which once represented bv -
jeff Davis, says he has urged Gov Stone to /
arrest those who undertake this work. and to 5
seize their boat
All this Is characteristic of the old South
1 my may poSSInIN undertake to prevent rs q
rom accomplishing our object, but it will not "
lelp them, but will, on the contrary tend To "
'peediiY help settle an unsettled question Il
namely, whether slavery has been abolished or p.
lot. 1t viii also help settle another question
namely, whether a State has any riobt ~ CO
blockade public highway against business (
eeognZed as legitimate and proper by the
] nited States. OF
Not word of truth in all this silly re
Exclamation. The Press ofNIississippi. OF
1t has said anything about Conway and
is scheme, may have denounced it as cy
n invention to disturb the minds oftbe be
redulous negroes and to fill them with q
ntleipations which will result only in ma
IsapPointment-as project of inter Tn
leddlers for their own personal gain to
he injury of others, but it has neither J,
ade norcounseled interference with the
ee navigation of the Mississippi. Gen. ~
halmers has never advised Gov. Stone ~,
resort to any method whatever to in va
rtere with this right, and the Governor De
mselt, selt-poised cautious, conscien- sci
ous, and deliberate, never has thought wa
doing so. bli
In the same strain, and on the same an
caslon, Wendell Phillips babbled w. WI
I'd spoke grandiloquently of Mississip- i
being "a public highway" as if any -. !
dy denied it. fro
Meantime, the Exodus will run its sta
IN course and work its own cure.
he eolored people have tried Kansas
themselves, and are learning that
many of their race have been vic
missed by demagogues, money-seekers. T. r.
d crazy humanitarians. ="