The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-09-03

The Threatened Exodus this Fall.
Wehave dealt frankly with the colored
people. We have not attempted 70
influence them against emigrating to
Kansas or elsewhere by holding out false
: inducements for them to remain. We
have told them that the white popula-
ton before the law have put them
upon plane of exact equality with
themselves. That no discrimination has
been made between the races either IN
the making or the enforcement of the
law. That all enjoy equal advantages.
That under the government as admins
tered by the Democratic party, both
races have the same opportunities.
That the same opportunities of education
at public expense are afforded TO both
That both SOW and plant, and reap and
gather as they list. That both buy and
sell, and come and go, as they like.
That they have the same rights, civil
and political that every profession and
office are open to all alike. And that
having regulated the relations of the
two races upon this basis, the whites
cannot without compromising themselves
promise anything more, nor consent to
anything more, as an inducement to
their colored neighbors to remain where
they are. They recognize the right of
emigration, to another State Of the
Union, or even to expatriation, to the
fullest extent and it is their duty to say
to the former, if you prefer to exercise
this right and abandon the South it is
your privilege to do. so. But we have
advised them to look before they leap.
We have advised them not to listen to
the appeals Of sectional agitators and
demagogues who are seeking to make
political capital; nor to heed the deceit
full promises of spectators who are
striving to make money by playing
on their credulity. We have advised
them to investigate for themselves-to
send the shrewdest and trustiest people
Of their own race to the West to enquire
and report the result of their observa-
tions; and then to go, and joy go with
them, if they think their condition will
be bettered.
We can very well see that great
advantages would in some respects ul-
timately result TO the South if the col
ored population in this section were di-
minished by emigration. They have
been a source of contention between the
North and the South ever since the
Union was formed. The African element
was a subject of painful dispute in the
Convention that framed the Constitul-
ton. In the long years of slavery, it
was bone of angry contention; and it
is worse now since the emancipation of
the negro, 1t will never be gotten rid
Of, we fear, until it is absorbed in some
thing like equal proportions by the
different sections of the Union. When
Kansas and Nebraska and Iowa, Ohio
and Massachusetts, have their proper
ton equally with Mississippi and Louis
lana, Alabama and the Carolinas, we
may then hope for rest from. this agita-
ton of which we are so weary. 1t is
idle to apprehend that if this agitation
should cease by operation Of the cause
we have mentioned, the vacant places
in the South would not soon be filed up.
Let it once become known that the pop
ulation had become practically no
that this vexatious strife |
which repels immigration from foreign !
lands and also from the North had
ceased forever by the permanent re-
moval Of the causes, and a perfect tidal |
wave of population would roll over this t
God-favored land. The world is not ig-
norant that it holds out inducements for
homes which no other country on the |
face of the earth affords in its salubri- /
Gus climate, its infinite variety Of soil
and its wealth creating productions. 1t
is predicted that during the present fall
a mighty wave of colored emigration
will set in froIl our State to the West. |
1t may be so. we can do nothing to
prevent it. But it will be the part of
wisdom to prepare for the temporary in
and loss which may result
to some localities by being suddenly de-
prived of the bulk of their labor. In
that event, it will be the duty of the
Legislature to interpose such remedial
measures as the occasion may require. |