The weekly clarion., 1879-12-10
Make him feel that he iaius1

ana ne VIII pass over urN shodi ana you ol
the South, attempting 70 prevent him, will
be overwhelmed, AS were Pharaoh aud his
hosts"
Now | will engage To meet Gov ST. John
in fair discussion in the Cooper Institute
in New York of any and all these points,
and show that the rents OF land are iaircr
than the rents of the houses and tenements
4 Of any one of the States who revel in pursu-
ing the South, and that the rents are The
cheapest and most favorable 10 the colOrcd
man of any land i'm the world. As 70 prices
for supplies, the negro can be hoodwinked
and chsated-after ne takes little whisky
AS easily as a poor white fool
And besides how are we 10 control the
| colored man in tradings In forty-scveu
cases in every fifty he has his choice IN any
number of stores-Jew, Gentle, Iuhdel,
/ Christian. Just here | call attention 20 "a
torcible insight into this trading question,
furnished 10y Rev. DIR. Hartzell, of New
. Orleans, in the Methodist Review for Octo-
/ ber He says;
/ These contracts and credit systems in
! the sugar and cotton, il not readjusted so
as to protect laborers as well As planters,
{ doom the mass of negroes in those regions of
| the South to years Of ifnot perpetual pOv-
erty Besides the planters proper there are,
since the war, in all rural districts, at every
/ important road crossing and steamboat land
! ing, country merchants, who, rs class,
I deserve no such respectable title. Every
one of these stores is whisky shop. These
merchants are often Jews, and generally are
men of the Shylock type. Their customers
are the small farmers or renters, mostly
| negroes, who can not go or send the larger
/ towns to trade with the more respectable
| merchants, and SO must trade with these
/ crossroads cormorants in human shape.
/ They advance supplies at ruinous prices,
| and take liens on everything their custom
/ ers have. They curse both whites % aud
/ blacks, but chiefly the latter because Of their
/ numbers and ignorance. / have known
I personally and learned of many instances
where many families had, year after year.
been stripped of oteverything, even 10 their
| pigs and chickens and household goods.
! Now, Mr.. Editor, is not all that true in
/ Illinois, Ohio, Vermont and Maine Mark
you: "Ercry one qt these Is Il t0hiskey shop"
/ Rum is no respectOr of persons. "Ihty
curse both whites and blacks l know sad
and fearful things about this curse on the
negro But | also know where good men
keep country stores and wellngh starve,
while few rods away money is coined, as it
were, by vast negro patronage. One sells
whisky, the other does nor. DIR. Hartzell's
article was doubtless intended 10 fan the
Northern hate But as he rakes To the
bottom, and does his worst the comparison
of State morals South and North, makes
his etlusion rather eulogistic of our superb
ority in good conduct.
Still | want Gov, st. John, the honora.
bic Senator Window and the Rev. Joseph
Cook, who has been collecting the groans of
Kansas martyrs for n dynamite prelude iu
Boston, to weigh well the suggestive words
of DIR. Hartzell
Once more Gov. st. John says if we
will do certain things "then the negro will
not want to come North" Indeed Well,
the negro must 60 then. If we advise him
not to trade at whisky shops, we bulldOze
him. if we urge him to rise earlier and
work better and quit going 10 dOggeries,
then we bulldoze him. So, do what We may,
we are liable to the anathemas Of the great
North and East.
But, sir, although last spring the planters
feared the loss Of their crops and saw only
ruin in the Sudden flight of the negro, they
now see that the South is ruined by his
presence, and never can be fiji home for
the white race until he is dispersed and
scattered abroad, either on the continent or
gathered INTO a grand nationality in Africa
We hope and pray for this contamination.
Indeed, We would be glad to give the remain
ing years Of life 10 the removal of the col
ored people from this dOwutrOdden and
villified land.
The negro has been spoiled. The rising
generation is worthless as a whole, and they
stand in the way of tho white race every
day, every hour, every moment. j regard
| Senator Window great beneiactOr of the
South. 1 bid him God-speed. / care not
for his motives. | am with him. Help tho
black man out Of the South. Let the white
man make the sugar, the cotton, the tobacco.
There is not an acre of Southern soil the
white man can not better cultivate than
the black.
Then the white man does six days work
4, i IL al
have friends who have made the best sugar
crops Of years with white labor alone, and
thToe-hiths Of the cotton is now made boy
white labor
l think every Legislature South ought to
make an appropriation for aiding the negro
to go to the West. He has seen his best
days here. He is declining daily. / know
he will find hosts Of friends in the North
and West. / found the colOred man in
Cannda, and he enjoys the climate and TO
fused TO return South, even 10 Illinois and
Ohio. 1t may be a trial for a little time To
the Southern people, but they know how %
suffer and to wait Their last and only hope
is the removal Of the colOrcd race Why
any one should be so blind as not TO see it.,
or so Indifferent as not urge it, is past find
ing out
OF course, as the earnest friend Of the
black race would not hurry them away
We're they all to vanish in six or twelve
months-as Gen. st. JOha snggests, when he
says if we don't mind our ps and as the
Red Sea Shirt Will open, the negro will
sweep through, and the ugly white folks be
overWhemed-if so swift a movement were
10 take place, it would shut up nearly every
cotton factory in the world, and bankrupt
not few in all commercial countries. The
whole white labor would then, for awhile
/ be devoted to corn, wheat, meat and tho
necessities Of life, and would at first make
/ but little cotton. But it would make the
South the gTandest and most desirable, and
/ the wealthiest country on the globe. How
/ ever, move off rs fast as they may, they can
not greatly lessen their numbers for a
considerable number Of years. And all the
alluvial bottoms will find no trouble in
obtaining force to till the lands.
! Were not the Southern States 80 poor, /
! think they should make large appro-
priations for the removal to the free States
| Of all the freedmen who could be induced
/ to depart. As il is, / hope the rich old
Eastern and Northern and Middle States
will appropriate few millions for this
object. And can not societies be organized
to aid in the glorious work?
The Atlantic and Pacific canal across the
Isthmus will need 100000 the railway for
carrying ships across from ocean to ocean will
need POO 900. Silver mines worked on shares
with them in any part Of the world villa
pay the owners better than if worked by
white men. Then 2,000,00O of them could
be settled from Maine and Vermont to Cal
ifornia, and so in thirty years the South
would become the wonder Of the world.
Ten white people will come South for
every negro that goes North, and all will bo
we'll, and the ugliest problem of tue ages be
solved and yet ! would greatly prefer TO
have territory conquered, or rpurchased, in
Africa and the colored man sent as a great
civilizing agency and Christian missionary
to his native land Why can not james
Gordon Bennett, Esq, who has done so
much to rend away the curtain that cOn-
cealed Africa from the gaze of the world.
set on foot the grandest enterprise ever
conceived of, and negotiate for an interior
tract of land as large as New York, in such
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