The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1879-05-03
The COlOred Victim.

The excitement about the exodus
OF colored people to Kansas has
subsidized considerably in the last
few days, and it is more than
probable it will have about played
out BY August or sooner. still the
subject is much commented on
both North and South. In several
instances charitable societies have
offered to. lend assistance to such
colored people as wish to go to
Kansas and have not the means,
and many will probably embrace
the offer but, as the scheme is
now pretty well understood. and
as some of the negroes who went
there are dissatisfied already and
are coming back, the movement
will not amount to much. To all
who wish to 60, we say go by all
means. The lesson will do them
good, aud the number that 60 can
in no way hurt or impair the In
terests of the great bulk of the
white people. Their place can and
will be filed by a better class.
For the benefit and information
of oil we publish extracts from diff
fsrent papers on this subject:
New York SUM-
Like the movement recently set
on foot in South Carolina to colo
nize large bodies OF the black popu-
lation in Liberia, as opening bet
ter field for their labor and a surer
prospect Of social elevation, the
scheme OF emigrsting from LOUIS
iane, Mississippi aud other States
to Kansas and the Northwest is
destincl to failure, because 1t is
against natural laws. The chief
sufferer is to be the poor deluded
negro, whose limited intelligence
does not permit him to apprehend
to difficulties to be confronted III
changing his old home for ruder
climate, where to live at all he
must compete with superior class
OF labor, which is hardy, interprls-
ing, self-relisnt, and thrifty quail
tiles in which the colored man,
unfortunately, is deficient.
Outside the South the negro is
not known as . farmer, in the sense
that is familiar in the great " est,
where he is now tempted to go to
contend with young and vigor-
Gus population, accustomed to the
use OF labor-saving machinery and
to all the improved methods Uf ag-
riculture. He knows how to raise
cotton, rice, sugar and tobacco, III
the slow ways which descended
from his forefathers, and he knows
little else. Certainly his kHowl-
edge is o; the most primitive sort.
and by no means adopted to
change which must leave him CON-
paratively helpless and entirely de-
pendent on cold charity.
However, we'll disposed people
OF Kansas and the Northwest may
be, they are in no condition ut tins
time to have thrown upon them
thousands of idle blacks who will
herd in the cities and towns, aud
ultimately, for the want of steady
become a serious bur-
den on the communities where
they may settle down. We see
what they are in the cities of the
East, and the form of occupation |
whereby they spbsist At WASH
lngton one-third of the population
10 colored. drawn there abnormally |
by the operations Of the Ring seven |
Or eight years ago. 1t is a well
known fact that these blacks will |
not 60 into the country for regular
Earm work, but prefer to exc out u
precarious existence in the city.
As necessary consequence crime
Is largely increased, and the courts
are crowded with prosecution fvr
larceny, burglary, murder, assaults
md infanticide, which last crime
aas become shockingly common.
More than this, the death rate
II the colored population at the
;apital is nearly double that of the
White. though hospitals and chart
les for their benefit are literally
provided by Congress. This con-
litiou of things exists right under
he eyes Of Mr.. Window and other
men who have in
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