The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-07-17

rearh,np this estimate they have necessary
arri we'd ~ d very correct appreciation OF inc
~, ,,b., hava madeit their business to invent
and retail them. ,.,,,,,a,
some time since Alcorn, the hepuoa. .a
ex-senator and Provisional Governor y 49,
sissippi, speaking Of Conway ana ms JANUS
scheme, said:
think he will have trouble IF ge na,, ,h II
many negroes as he wants. M a,satre 30 emo
t the ssnd 50 fond Of moving about that II they
should bring a steamboat down 70 ra 81 ,,rnnaiIn
Ing which is near my fue, To- Kansas, the
promised land aud rations plenty, ne ,.,id rmn
iieve that three fonrtha Of my peopie mpu MI AK
ont and M Why they have come 10 me u 80
cited and asked me If It was true that Land WaT
being given away III Kansas. and all the VILE
have had standing oftar Of ateTh nave on INV
Oh aply aese to "a anv man white or black who
VII ks L and snts sfs T. F Fh o Vii s &c Wild
o oper q au ,nem vi of free ese lands IN
are absolutely too shittlees to take twenty times
as good land IN Mssisslppi where shIy m nde
suits them OF course, the land IL unimproFeu,
as it in kansas. but ,ou cannot yet me neg1o
to improve IT, FL VIII nj pn ,ra n.n' Ha il
like a child You have got to provlua ever eas y,
thing for him Why. there are 1000 600 o. acre. r
Of land In ny sta ct s opan % eo
of State lands which hive lapsed Ter nor. pas ~
ment Of taxes. and can be had on payInen. ~
the taxes Or for about be eenIa an ph
which will produce a bale and nall OF eo. aor
to the acre II improved and cultivated. mean
to eav that for twenty. Ave cents on acre any
quantity Of land can be- obtained In Mississippi
which will grow 600 pounds OF cotton 10 the
acre, worth, at present prices, sou
In further illustration of the credulity OF
the negroes, Alcorn, who, as an old planter us
we'll as Republican politician. ought TO have
a very correct appreciation of their character,
said:
When Ames ran against me for Governor bis
managers get out an order dated at WasnlhRIon..
yellow seal attached. and purporttng TO DO from
q. g. Grant. ordering them to vote 1or AM ~ =
and 81 T. Of whsn Was the
negroes on my place. Just as good, kina noness s
old fellows as ever was, went around stalking on
naee was to be- e eonseated and divided among
them. They Wore aeh to have their forty Aeles
and a mule.
1t would not be very difficult task to en-
tice these poor, simple creatures into any pro-
ject that partisan cunning and unscrupulous
rascality might devise. The commander
of the United States war vessel Wachusett,
which has just returned from an unsuccessful
attempt to reach st. Louis, whittier she was
sent to enlist boys for the marine service, In
substantiation of Alcorn's views, Is repre-
scented as saying to Picayune reporter that
after his vessel left New Orleans "she
steamed up the Mississippi, creating the
greatest excitement along the banks, es-
pecially among the colored people, who We're
evidently under the impression that Uncle
Sam had sent man-of-war to convey them
to Kansas
1t Is pitiful sight to witness the meanness
and degradation to which such men as Win
dom and his conductors In this exodus BUSH
ness have made themselves parties for purely
political purposes. and these as speculative
as they are villainous. Any one who has the
faintest perception of the negro charac-
ter. or knows anything of the motives
which control his actions, will see at once
that ex-senator Alcorn has given the true
explanation of this whole exodus business
Yet the New Orleans Times persists in assert
| ing that the kansas fever Is an indigenous
production" generated by "bulldozing." and
| springing out OF the uneasiness and suffer
ings OF the negroes-Windom and Conway
have had nothing to do with its origin and
development. In short, the f4HtFs atiUptH
their view OF the question, and breaches toll
erance and humanity to the whites, and an
abandonment Of their inhuman practices as
the only cure for the evil. Our opinion Is that
this is case requiring local, and not q con.
stitutional treatment.