The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-05-17
THE KANSAS DELUSION DISAPPEAR
ING.

THE KANSAS DELUSlON UlSAPPhAh-
ING.
We have stated with reference to the negro
emigration to Kansas that this movement
was an evil traceable to no single, definite
origin and no tangible cause, but that 1t
sprang from q combination Of imaginary
causes, each one OF which was insufficient to
start 1t. but all Of which combined were suffi-
cient to set the tide Of emigration In motion.
Thus the low price OF cotton for the past
two years has certainly reduced greatly TIE
negroes profit on his annual labor. and lnstl-
gated In him spirit Of dissatisfaction; put
this was not sufficient to drive him to other
regions where doubtful prosperity awaited
him. The alleged political persecution may
have filled him with imaginary discomfort,
but this was not enough to have driven MIN
to look for protection among the people OF o
race unknown to him.
The loss of political power might have led
him TO seek to establish O race supremacy 10
some remote region, but he would have been
discouraged at the prospect OF struggle In
strange land to reinstate his complete au-
thority.
But the small profits on their labor, their
fancled political wrongs and the loss OF their
political supremacy, I'LL combined, melted
this emotional race to seek a change In their
location.
We have heretofore predicted that this
negro emigration was an evil which would
ultimately correct Itself; that no powers OF
discussion, no statement OF the condition OF
the country In which they proposed to locate,
and no warning of the privation and disease
they must suffer there would prevent them
from going to Kansas; that only the convic-
ton OF their own sad experience could prove
to them the folly and error OF their Needless
course; that when they acquired this expert
ence they would manifest MS much zeal In Ell
deavoring to get out Of Kansas as they had
shown In seeking tog get into 1t.
Our letters and dispatches from Kansas all
tend to prove the correctness Of this view, as
do the general tenor of the dispatches and
news on the subject published by the press
throughout the country
It ID stated therein that the negroes who
have reached Kansas are generally dissatis-
fled with the country, have suffered from Its
climate. find themselves unwecome to It's
people and are anxious to get back home
Our dispatches this morning stated that many
81 them were SO firmly determined to return
that they chad resolved to walk home
when the weather got warmer
We venture to say that II they had been
able to have done so four-fifths Of the negroes
who have gone to Kansas would have re-
turned before this; but they have been threat
ened with violencei If they sought to return to
the South, have been denied assistance by
the falsely philanthropic relief socities and
have been induced by politicians to stay and
whit for something better than they have yet
found In the country; while the last OF the
emigrants know they cannot get back to the
South In time to make a full crop this year.
The delusion is disappearing among the
negroes, and this fact SO alarmed the fanatics
who inaugurated the movement that they
have been instgated to tenfold zeal and ac-
tlvity In trying to rekindle the emigration
excitement, and to thereby depopulate the
Southern cotton fields.
There have recently been frequent rallies
In mass-meeting OF the fanatical exodus pro-
meters from which were evolved numerous
plans for the furtherance of their cruel
scheme.
The nest preposterous plan suggested ID
that proposed by Parson Conway, who pre-
fixes the title of general to his name, ostensf-
bly, to give impressiveness to the scheme he
devised. This is an invasion OF the cotton
section with a vessel armed for war, and q
convoy fleet to take away negroes by the
| cargo.
We have no doubt that II this diaboical de-
sign is carried out 1t would succeed in secur-
ing recruits from the country through which
the fleet passed. but we very much doubt
| If such manifest violation Of national and
State law rs Conway proposes would be per-
mitted by either the Federal or State authori-
ties. Without his projected gunboat, Conway
has right to send all the boats and barges he
could gather In the rivers to accomplish his
purpose.
1t ID safe to say he will never carry his
brainless project into execution.
This man and all of his stripe do not seri
ously intend to attempt the execution Of the
chimerical plans they PROPOSE but they evi
IDENTIFY hope by their magnitude to daze
bewilder and delude the negro 50 as to work
him into proper frame Of mind to be willing
to follow their directions In anything they
should choose to dictate.
It Is possible that this recent reviva
of the enthusiasm of these fanatics and thei
rekindled zeal will dissipate the present ul
In the immigration movement and ma.
raise a renewed Juror of excitement in favo
, OF a more general exodus among the negroes
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