Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-08
and that issJust What il is-Fred Doug
las Says it is Movement that is
luxurious TO His People, Be
cause il Unsetlies Their
Hopes aId Their
Homes.

cause il Unsetiies Their
Hopes AID Their
Homes.
New York Times (Rapublicau) editorial:
"triehds Of the colOred people will best
prove their friendship by discouraging the in
| discriminate emigration which is going on
| from several OF the southern States, and by
correcting certain mlsapprehensions of fact
| winch underlie some parts of the move
| ment. 1t Is mistake 70 suppose that the
movement Is altogether new, or that it is
! wholly the product Of political changes. For
! some time past q disposition TO seek new
! MONIES mas been apparent among the colored
! people IN South Caro-. ma, Georgia and other
! states. Large numbers nave lett for newer
| regions IN the south, where the acquisition
! CT !aud Is more easy. and where the c0ndi-
| lions o! life have seemed to be more favor
! able in these instances the migration has
| been from within the south. and has there
| tore possessed little or 10 political signifi-
! cance. The same should probably be said of
the more recent and, rs we hear, disastrous
attempt to revive IN Charleston an interest
III Liberia. the prevailing object in both
eases S been Identical with that which de-
| termIrCs tie transfer of white men
from the Atlantic States to the west.
Inc c1ored eEllerants have gen
orally been CT the more thrifty class, sutfi-
CJtrtiy intelligent 10 realize the hopeless
ar75 OF then future IN communities too chv-
airous to forget that they mad once been
| slaves. they want land OF their owa to Gull
uvate, and tue old planters hold with a tight
grip tract OF land which they are too poor
TO cultivate and too proud to sell. Migration
was the result: How it has operated upon
the fortunes OF the emIgrant5 we are not able
TO tell. Bat that the yearnlng for land is not
o2captIonal among coIored men we learn from
testimony from Georgia, where white plant
rs begin to complain that SINAI! coored hold
:n2s multiply too rapidly for the convenience
OF white employers. There, as in MississIr>
III aud Texas, ample evidence exists of the
disposition aad atlIty Of the better class Of
coioteG people 10 acquire land and to cult-
waite 1t probably. TO what extent does the
same motive contribute t. the movement up
tdc Mississippi and westward? A movement
from South Carolina or Georgia to Mississin-
- or Texas IS natural; a movement from
southern 10 northern attitudes, with all the
conditions OF lite changed, Is not so intelli-
Sipl2, X suggests the presence OF other
causes, and perhaps also the presence
OF outside influences liz their nature not
commendable. In the first place the emf
grants are OF a class inferior to those of
whose removal we h I'VE spoken. That most
OF them are poor-so poor that though they
start for Kansas they are recipients of charity
before they leave St. Louis-is made appa-
rent 10y the appeals for assistance. That they
are rushing bllndy, either to escape some
wrong or peril, or IN expectation of benefits !
winch may he lost by delay, is evident from
the reports from various landing places on |
the lower Mississippi. As an indication of |
teelng among the negroes themselves the |
former explanation would justify much that |
has been suggested tQ0stablish the reality of |
fear us the controlling motive. Partisan
enlssarics are not required to teach colored |
families IN certain pats of South Carolina,
Louislaaa, and Mississippi how much risk
they encounter 10y adherence to the Republic
can cause. Tic oft told tale OF oppression
and cruelty, winch at the north is regarded
as ti"geG with partisan eXaggeration, is
60 these people l terrible reality. Their
Hight from 1t may entail upon them
miserIes Of d different character. but
at least 1t is ineligible. Very differ
3Ht IS tine situation if sinister in
1uences OF any ilind are at work, unsettling
.heso people, and filing their heads with no.
ions OF prosperity and happiness which do
le5 come to emI2tants of any class until after
o1% waiting. ana which cannot be held cut
% deetituta blacks, in fields of labcr far re
u wed from those they have been accustomed
q, without mourning grave responsibility.
here can De 10 doub5 that emancipation has
lot tuluiitd ali Gelr expectations OF material !
OHI0ft and independence, and they will give
willing ar 70 promises of houses ana farms
MT easy comfort n lnsas. If the emigra-
ION IS III any considerable degree traceabe to
ne lying stories o. ticket agents, or Of con-
-actors, or OF partlsans intent upon produc. :
~ political effect, It Is at once a crime and
calamity. In these days romance does not
Gtaeh to emgratloa. II is a stern reality to
very ore who engages Ia it. To multitudes
the freedmen whose movement attracts at
4ntiOn It Is pregnant with disappointment
nj suffering. They have not the scif-reli- |
nee, the aptitude for toll in the climate of }
lie northwest, the Willingness to endure
rear harishlp as the prelude to prosperity,
men eGuOie hardy white emIgrants TO i
.ale homes III the wilderness. The Door
"a. aeks expect practical sympathy, and they 7
III get very little OF 1t III Kansas OF IN anv | A
w region Waere every man Is struggling in
S own behalf. They will not find farm labor Il
good wages, CT with good homes, so album a
'at as they have probably been led to be-
we tidt 1t IS, ior N new countries farmers II
tDtit c"n work, and employ few hired
mus these are dIsappointments that will
ieiL tte moment the black emigrants reach 81
eiyromsed land. Their poverty, as attested u
published appeals, units them for making 70
.HS on their own account. Some there | K
y be among them who Will face the toll
q hardship which the Scandinavian settler wi
~e''~N 'LtAtytL a. i1uEitluE- Dut Inc great | Hr
> Jrity OF them are unequal to the trial. Ii
npoSs-0!e, therefore, to witness the move ne
'hL WIN Indifference, or to applaud those ST.
20 would encourage Ii for political reasons.
e mus deplore the condition of things br
l9h renders 1t possible; but, as regards the oil
isiants themselves, we fear that they are
hanging one set Of niseries for another Mf
ED DOUGLASS ON NEGRO EMIGRATION.
Washington special to the Chicago Times: g 60
arShal Fred Douglass does not believe that
CO ored people will succeed in their at for
lpt 10 better their fortunes 10y leaving the mo
Tn. In an interview he says: 'Undues- bel
iably the original and fundamental cause
he present exodus Is to be found in the bea
RACES commlJted il the guilt States espe- Mo Mo
IS, on account OF differences of political 'Ne
lcH and action. The negroes, ike all d.
p, people, love freedom, and will make son
Itices 70 secure 1t. The same feeling that wit
negro slaves, IN the face OF danger, hard
and restitution, to escape from slavery, can
make their way, by the light of the and
n star, lcto the free States, is at the bot tne
o. tins emigration. OF course this feel
has been Appealed to and excited by such t HI
1e 56 nlea as Ter several years past have bon
office In the gulf States. Having been
en- out OF place and power by the old Bar
Ter class, All beng hopeless of a IA He
DE change IN southern opinion. Dell
have naturally enough urged on 4
move as 4 means OF inducing a aial
r second thought on the part of their thai n a.
. ieiiow-cluzens. For this purpose it
be productive OF limited benefit bur if do, -,
not, IN my Judgment, be sufficiently ben Shei
Il to compensate for the har lsh;ps which the
movement will entail upon the actual r
rant. such emgrants, however enter eItiz
ng ana industrious, are exceedingly Door 10 50
their very poverty and wretchedness will Dear
idlI to need, whether they 90 into a
9rn State or a Territory. Already almost hous
crba5i9 suffering has been endured bv to q
reds vino, IN tue face of one of our i nad
st winters, have found their way no the me
sSippl valley as far as st. Louis. | :, - =,
:, too, that the movement will be in bal " "
Us N unsetti'ng the hopes as well as son Q
IS OF these people, and that it is an evil you
lIt lt IS q premature abandonment of III
n the ability Of the nation to protect pen
, and also al abandonment of faith in W. "a |
rograss Of civilization IN the southern the Il
5. l remember when the New England Sn
S We're perVaded by prejudice on race as while
sc auG bitter as Is now manifested to- were
the colorad people IN many Of the s savad :
ern States. Within the last fye-and- G.
Years woman was imprisoned in san nor
7ctleut tor teaching black scholars to pin
and write. In Massachusetts | have With
been denied accommodation at fine PIN