New-York tribune., 1879-12-30


with the treatment which they receive where
they are, and please to exercise the rights OF
freemen In migrating to some other locality.
Or perhaps Mr.. Voorhees, hopes to snow
that there is deliberate plan to remove from
the South thousands of cOlOred voters, VINO
are staunch and unfinching Republicans, to
the doubtful Northern States. in order to turn
the scale in such States ut future elections
If this were true, again, what of It'll Is IL
violation of any written or unwritten law I'D
this country, to advise men to settle in re-
gion where their votes will count, and where
they will be respected because of the infu-
eDce they can exert, rather than in region
where they are virtually dsfranchisedf III
Mr. Voorhees, will look at the matter coolly, he
will see that every citizen of this country mas
a right to settle where his vote will count
most and every other citizen has right 10
advise him to do so. 1t would be good
thing for some Northern States if. instead OF
the ignorant and vicious and unmanageaDie
persons who fill not few places of Industrial
importance, $4,000 willing and teachable col
ored workers could be induced to offer their
services and it would be all the better II
faithful Republican voters of dark skin could
thus be brought to illumine the moral dark
ness of some Democratic stronghOlds. But
there is not the slightest proof. thus far, that
any such object has governed the movement
of the colored people. Several thousand nave
gone to Kansas, State which is sufficiently
Republican without any help. while not more
than 500 families, it is stated, have thus FAR
found new homes in Indiana, where the cleo
tion of such demagOgue as MIR. voorhees,
proves that great moral and mental darkness
exists.
Senator Voorhees, will discover, If he makes
the investigation thorough, several things which
it will not be convenient to his party to have
officially stated. He will discover that the
colored people of the South are going away III
large numbers because they have been sub
iected to such treatment, industraly and
politically, as has never been patiently endured
by any free men in any land. They have been
cheated and plundered, and in thousand ways
oppressed, and deprived of such educational
and business opportunities as they had right
to desire, and robbed of their legitimate politl-
cal influence, i'm order that white Democrats
might pocket all the profits and hold all the
power. The colOred men have sense enough
to see that they can do great deal better
elsewhere, and they have been patiently saw
ing money until thousands of them are ready
to migrate. Mr.. Voorhees, will find that he
cannot stop them, until he can substitute
a Democratic despotism for free Republic.
Moreover he will discover that the cOored
people prefer to live in thrifty, industrious,
civilized and decent communities, and
therefore, as rule, they do not pre-
fer the Democratic strongholds. Keen
political managers would doubtless have
advised as many as possible to go
into districts of darkness and Democracy.
But the colored people are looking for new
homes, where they can have fair chance In
the race of life; where their work will be paid
for as well as the work of white men If 1t is
as good. and where their votes will count just
as much as the votes of white men of equal
intelligence. 1t is not strange that few OF
them, who are shrewd enough to remove at
all. care to settle in neighborhoOds where men
like Mr.. Voorhees, are considered great states