St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1879-07-26

late slaves of the South, race thai
is notorious for pilferins, utterly /
void of virtue, cowardly. lying and
lazy, to come to us, when we are
actually unable to supply our whits
labor with employment.--To-day-'
there are thousands of W hite men in
Kansas unable to get work, and this
in the midst of our harvest.
Honest. courageous white men.
who are willing to work. should not
be thrown out OF employment, or
oppressed, or in any way injured. 10
make room for race mentally ami
morally weak, wretched and cow
ardly. l do not mean to be abusive,
but do mean to show plainly how
the mass of the Western people re-
gard the negro. We don't want
them. We have no use tor them.
We strongly object to the coming
among US of these objects of politi-
cal charity. We have plenty Of
black men and women here now,
and if these are a fair sample OF
those to come, (and I claim they
are, they will be new curse added
to life III Kansas. Those We have
hang around the little towns and are
utterly worthless.
Ii they go to Work they will throw
| white Republicans out Of work; and
the white man, when he considers
that he loss his work because ne
gro underbid him, and that tho
negro was sent here by Republicans,
will inevitably vote the Democratic
ticket at the Presidential election Ia
1880 The workingmen of the
West, whose sympathies are with
their brethren, Will desert the Re-
publican party nearly Ill body.
Twenty Thousand black men COM
ing to k'ulsas, aud displacing tlat
number of white men, will have the
deserved effect to change the State /,
from Republican to Democratic
1t is well known that the expert
ment of growing cotton i'll Egypt
has been III expensive failure. The
fibre is short aud harsh Though
the labor used there was almost un-e
paid, tle farmers. when our war OF
the rebellion ended, Were ut once
driven from the markets of tho
world. The truth is that the cotton
belt of the United States is the only
true cotton land i'll the world It
supplies the world. No cotton from
other fields can be sold as long ,.s u
full supply of American cotton can
be had. This is acknowledged; anil
being so, it is IL the interest of the
West to keep the labor of the South
in the fields growing cotton. We
don't want the South to raise. food,
and she c.,nnot afford to raise it,
when cotton is worth II cents per
pound. What we of the West want
Is to have the South develop her
resources for raislnS cotton to the
utmost, while we raise grain and
meat to feed her. 4uE Il
Suppose the Democratic party
should advocate as II political neces-
sity the migration of the iron work
ers and miners of Pennsylvania and
New York, and the cotton and
the cotton and woollen mill hunds
of New England, to the Western
prliries, and should cause the fur
naces to blow out, the mills to shut
down and the production of goods
to cease. The East would feel that
the Democratic party was trying
not only to destroy their party but
their property, and deprive them Of
the means of living. But the man,
ayers of this black exodus hate the
South 50 bitterly that they are will
to cripple the West. if they can get
the satisfaction" (which they did
not dare To search for from 1861 10
1869 they crave from the Conie,l-
crates.
No politician should allow him.
self, for the purpose of party al
yancement, to advocate scDeuIe
the Consequences of which no mnn
can foretell. 1t is the most danger
Dus movement that has as yet bern
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