Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-05-01
The CeloFsa Z victim.

Like the movementrecently set on
foot in South Carolina TO colonize
large bodies of the black population
in Liberia, as opening better field
for their labor and surer prospect
of social elevation, the scheme of
emigration from Louisiana, Missis.
sippi, and other States to Kansas and
the northwest is destined to failure,
because it Is against natural laws.
The chief sufferer is to be the poor
deluded negro, whose limited intelli-
gence does not permit him to appre-
hend the difficulties to be confronted
in changing his old home for. ruder
climate, where to live at all he must
compete with q superior class of
labor, which is hardy, enterprising,
self-reliant, and thrifty--qualities in
which the colored man, unfortunately,
is deficient.
Outside the south the negro is
hardly known as farmer, in the
sense that is familiar in the great
West, where he is now tempted to go
to contend with young and vigorous
population, accustomed to the use of
labor-saving machinery and to all the
improved methods of agriculture.
He knows how to raise cotton, rice,
sugar and tobacco, in the slow ways
which descended from his forefath-
ers, and he knows little else. Ger
tainly his knowledge is of the most
primitive sort, and by no means
adapted to change which must leave
him comparatively helpless and en-
tirely dependent on cold charity.
However well disposed the people
of Kansas and the northwest may be-,
they are in no condition at this time
to have thrown upon them thousands
of idle blacks who will here in the
cities and towns, and ultimately, for
the want of steady employment, be-
come serious burden on the COM
where they may settle down.
We see what they are in the cities of
the East, and the forms of occupation
whereby they subsist. At Washing
ton one-third of the population is
coloIed, drawn there abnormally by
the operations of the Ring seven or
eight years ago. 1t is a well-known
fact that these blacks will not go into
the country for regular farm work,
but prefer to exc out precarious ex-
istence in the city. As necessary
crime is largely in
creased, and the courts are crowded
with prosecutions for larceny, bur-
glary, murder, assaults, and infanti-
eide, which last crime has become
common.
More than this, the death rate Of
the colored population at the capital
is nearly double that of the white,
though hospitals and charities for
their benefit are literally provided for
by Congress- This condition of
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Mr.: Window and other philanthropic
men who have instigated the exodus
from the South, as a means of help
ing the desperate, Republican cause,
by holding it up as a proof OF their
charges of oppression of the negro.
Since the close Of the civil war the
black man has been the victim OF Re-
publican political managers. He was
by the Freedmen's Bureau
as a part of the machine for carrying
elections under the reconstruction
acts; and then followed the Freed
mans Bank, originally started for the
best objects, and intended to encour-
age thrift among q people naturally
careless and extravagant, with safe
guards to protect their savings; but
a Ring of thieves at Washington
seized it and induced Republican
Congress 10 change the law, SO that
they might steal the earnings of the