The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1879-04-09

The SOUTHERN EXoDus.-The extensive
emigration OF colored people from Louisiana
and Mississippi to Kansas that has been in
progress for some weeks past, is rapidly as
suming the character OF general race move.
inent. 1t has been steadily growing for weeks
past, but OF late with extraordinary rapidty.
1t bears strong resemblance to the race
movements of the remote past, when whole
tribes suddenly burst from the dim Businesses
OF the Scandinavian forests, and poured in
ieslstless human torrent down upon the fertile
and SUMNER plains of Eastern and Southern
Europe. II has. perhaps, a closer historic re.
sembanoe to the exodus Of the children of
Israel ont Of the land Of Egypt and the House
OF Bondage. There is no doubt that the pres.
emit immigration is very much in the character
oftugitivSs fleeing in fear and trembling from
an ihhospitable land and tyrannical foes. This
feeling is unquestionably the chief inspiring
cause OF their departure from tho South -
Nothing Short OF so strong a motive would
drive these people from land so perfectly
suited in all its physical characteristics to
their constitutions. Tho sunny South is
physical paradise TO the negro, and he would
never think Of leaving it--especiallyas all the
home ties Of his warm and susceptible nature
are interwoven with the South-for bleaker
region of the country where he would be
homeless stranger. And this strong motive is
known to exist. The negro has been perse-
cuted in many parts of the South in the most
cruel, heartless and outrageous way. III the
two States named-Louisiana aud Mississippi
--be has been treated by the Bourbon Dem
ocfacy as an alien foe, entitled to no consider
alton or mercy. The Bulldo2ers aud the Ku
Klax have murdered, outraged and robbed
him, deprived him Of the most sacred rights
Of humanity, and ground him beneath the
heel of cruel tyranny, into the very mire and
dust. Hopeless aud heart sick, he is now fee
ing from The land of his fathers to a region of
freedom and happiness
The stories that these poor fugitives tell of
the.reasons Which impelled their flight, and
Of tue hopes and fears that alternately inspire
or depress theu,. are pitiful and touching
THEY make 81. Louis a sort of common gath
ering place. They feel when reaching there
that their fight has been successful, and from
here hey set out for their future Western
homesa Many of them are almost utterly des-
tiute when they reach ST. Lo lis, but they are
light hearted and jnbilant at having finally es.
capped ironl an accnrsed region, over which
hug the pall of a cruel 6espotisin, into the
light and safety of full and perfect liberty =
Tostile newspaper men who interview them
the. happy throngs speak freely Of their past
trials. their purpose and their future hopes.-
4 he Expressions were numerous and loud on
the part'hf the refugees that God had sent
them delivereis, and many were the hallelu-
jala and cries Of s.tilary to God, - tole
loil dc Lord would help Us, that arose from
hundreds of grateful hearts. One corresponds
ent says 9 said that they were going to a
much colder climate and to a country where
fuel was scarce. They replied that they might
as well freeze to death as starye TO death ;
they had to live on vhesstone chips where
they came from, and they couldn't do worse
xrisflf fisev 1aaxf would he in
terror of their lives. Every suggestion of re-
turning To lhe South was indignantly reject
I'd" The st. Louis Globe, Democrat says
:. Many Of their stories are most pitiful, and
il would be almost impossible to detail al the
ouilages hey reate.n Il then gives several
columns of the stories related by these refu-
gees to its reporters, ol the reason for their
flight The tales Of Outrage, ofheartless tyr
amy, OF bloodsIlod and murder is a dreadful