The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-05-08
THE COLORED EXODUS.
Agitation of the Subject in tho Country.


Agitation of the Subject In tho Country.
The mass meeting at the Cooper Union,
New York City, on "Wednesday, to ex-
press sympathy with the colored people
VINO are leaving Louisiana and Niisss-
sippi, to seek new homes in the West was
large in numbers, the audience consist
ing almost entirely of colored people of
both sexes. The features of the affair
were the bitterness of what was said and
the iusigniiicance of what was dome
only 1924 having been collected. The
following literally savage resolutions
were, however, adopted:
"Whereas the colorhd people are leay-
ing the South by thousands and are seek
ing new haunts in the West; whereas
their innocent fathers, mothers, brothers.
sisters, wives and other relatives and
friends have been stricken down in cold
blood and their lifcless flesh been left as
food for the Southern turkey buzzard ;
whereas Il tree has been made by brutal
men perpendicular delivery bed for an
innocent pregnant wife and mother to
die on; whereas the colored people have
toiled without being compensated, and
have been mercilessly robbed; whereas
extreme extortion has been the policy of
those who have furnished them with the
needs of life; whereas education has
been denied them; whereas they have
not been permitted to worship God in
peace; whereas they have relied OH the
Federal arm at Washington, and it under
the control Of professed friends, and
found no protection and have been made
to live Il life of peril and, whereas, the
colored refugees have horror stricken
fears as to the state of things which will
be true of the South, should the Federal
army after 1880 be under the control of
those WHO have affiliated with their op-
pressOrs
"We approve of their movement to
such new home in the West, and re-
solve to do all in our power to assist
them, and do call upon every man, wo-
man and child to extend to them help
ing hand"
Thurlow Weed and others of less note,
black and white, spoke. Wendell Phil.
lips and William Lloyd Garrison sent
letters, the reading of which called out
the most enthusiastic applause. Wen
dell Phillips wrote: 81 am exceedingly
sorry that / Cannot DC with you. Nv
health is not such as to allow of it. I
have no words to describe what consider
the Importance of your meeting. Only
two paths are open to the colored men of
the South: one is to resist, aud protect
themselves against intolernble oppression
by ALAS; the other is to leave, one-half
or them, their homes, and teach their op-
pressors justice by the severe lesson Of
suffering. Leave the tyrants and bullies
to till their own soil or starve, while they
90 nothing but wrong and rob their
laborers. Without laborers the Southern
acres are worth nothing. Even South
erner will come to his senses, or if he
never had any senses, obtain some, when
he is starved. l trust the North will, as
IN Kansas days, organize and help to
open channels and contribute means for
large emigration from States ruled by
thieves and cut-throats, who know no
means of getting their bread except by
robblng their neighbors."
After regrets at his inability to be
! present, William Lloyd Garrison wrote :
The spectacle of thousands of half
naked, empty-handed, despairing men,
women and children fleeing as for their
lives from one part of the country to an
other, prcferring to risk starvation and
death by the way rather than remain
where they naturally belong, is one cal
culated to move plying Heaven and to
awaken all that is sympathetic and gen
erous in the human breast Their claims
for Immediate charitable relief are equal
ly Just and imperative. In these South
ern States conspiracy and usurpation sue
cessiully bear sway. In all the late
Rebel States there scarcely exists a single
Legitimate State administration: for no
election has been permitted without be-
ing controlled more or less by fraud, in
tlmidation and lawlessness. It is clear
that the battle of liberty and equal rights
is to be fought over again, not in n party
sense in the ordinary use of that term,
but by the uprising and consolidating of
a loyal, freedom-loving North, over
whelming in numbers, determined in
purpose, invinciblc in action, a.l su-
preme in patriotism, based upon Impair
tial justice and an embracing citizen.
ship. While therefore grave, exciting
and relatively important as the present
exodus of few thousands of colorcd
refugees from Mississippi and Louisiana
may be, !. IS only an incident of the hour
demanding. succor and aid in various
FORMS. until they have time to selet
their dwelling places. But what of the
four million of coIored people in the e:l.
tire South =? Their excitement is q ques
ton not to be seriously entertained for &
moment, either rs ii desirable or possible
event. The American government is bu
a mockery and deserves to be over
thrown, if they are to be left without
protection as sheep in the midst o
wolves. Let the edict go forth, trumpet
tongued, that there shall be speedy enc
put to all this bloody misrul, and lie
the rallying cry be heard from the At
antic TO the Pacific coast: Liberty an,
equal rights for each, for all, and forever
wherever. the lot of man is cast. within
0uT DToau uomains.''
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