The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-06-05
THE TRUTH FINALLY ASSERTS
ITSELF,


can't hold her down. Which we mean ter
say is exemplitied in the history of the ne
gro exodus. In tho carly stages of the
hegira Republican newspapers north, raised
the howl that the poor blacks were fleeing
from the knives and the shot-guns Of the
white leaguers. 1t mattered nothing that
the blacks, as if moving in pursuance Of an
understanding, all headed for Kansas.
Once in while very INSCRIPTIONS Re-
publican bowler would use that very fact
to illustrate the bull-dozcrs heartless fe-
rocity. THE negroes were not only scared
from their homes, beyond the limits Of the
south; but scared all the way to the bleak
prairies of Kansas where, as the Southern
white fiends very well knew, they would
finally freeze to death, if they failed, in the
meantime, to starvc to DEATH" And now that
time has given the truth chance to
assert itself, it appear that five-sixths of all
the colcred immigrants came from those
parishes in the South where the negroes
are omnipotent; where all the offices from
sheriff to constable are filled by negroes
and where the white men are utterly pow
erless. As to this fact Southern Democrats
and Republicans fully agree. Two-thirds
Of all the negroes from Mississippi came
! from one parish which contains less than 400
white voters, and over 24O0 colored men,
and the same is true Of the negroes who
left Louisiana. To say that, with the courts
and every department of local and par
ish government in the hands Of the blacks
every white man is an object of terror to
seven negroes, is to put the negroes upon
plane that they themselves, Indignantly re-
fuse to occupy. And so the bull-dozing lie
topples and falls Of the wei ght of its own
absurdity. But the rents are enormous
There is some truth in this; |
but if the negroes ever find
land owners who will not take all the rental |
they can get they will have to pass beyond |
the limits Of the North. The white planter
furnishes ground, dwelling house, horses,
agricultural implements, seeds, etc, and |
gives the negro renter half the crop. Or if |
the negro furnishes his own mules, seeds
and implements he is given from two
thirds to three.fourths of the CROP or, if
the negro chooses, he may pay a cash rental
of from five to ten dollars--the rental as
above stated, always covering the use of
dwelling house, garden patch, and all the
fire wood required free Of charge. Now
where, in the United States, are renters
given better terms! In Ohio, where the
land grows nothing but corn and wheat
the rental is from ten to twelve dollars
per acre and nothing furnished. In Indi-
ana and Illinois and all the western states,
the best terms given, are idcntically those
| of the South, less the free use of house
and the free supply Of fre-wood, which form
most important item. Hence it appears
| that Southerners are held as tvrants
and healtless oppressors of the poor blacks,
because they deal with them on terms not
quite as illibcral as those that shape the
dealings of the Northern landowner with
the poor whites. 1t is undeniable that
Southern cross roads store keepers charge
villainous prices for their goods; but they
sell them to improvident negroes on credit,
and nine out OF every ten OF them finally
develop into "busted up merchant"
bankrupts. The fog of talsehood having
thus been blown aside, the state of affairs
we have described has been dis
closed 1t stands out, clear as the
light Of day, that the widely circulated and
oft repeated assertion that the Kansas i'm
migrants were bull-dozed out of the South,
is Republican lie. 1t further turns out
that the negroes were beguiled to Kansas
by the hope of free land, government
mules and life of plenty--and further still,
that the deluded creatures who reached
Kansas, or the great majority of them, bit
tery curse the day they left the South, and
will, before the winter IS over, find their
way back to their old homes again.