The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1879-05-09
THE NEGRO EXODUS.
COMPLETE COLLAPSE or THE MOVE
MENT ON ACCOUNT OF A
LACK OF FUNDS.
How Ellis Best Garaeld's Bill by Threaten.
Ing to Investigate the Condition Of
the White Labor Of the North.

Ing to Investigate the Condition sf
the White Labor of the North.
!speeiai correspondence OF the Democrat.1
! WASHINGTON, D. g., May 4, 1873.
THE NEGRO EXODUS.
80 lar as the Washington or business end Of
the movement Is concerned, may now be aaia
TO have collapsed; 80 that whatever move-
ments the negroes may make In the future in
the direction Of Kansas, or any other land of
promise an promise and no performances. f,v
| the way-wHl have to be made at their own
peril This collapse is due to two eauaea.
First, the failure OF the old neqro-worshir-
| ing element In the North to respond with,
subscriptions when called upon; and second.
by the unexpected flank movement which
Ellis threatened to inaugurate upon the re-
port Of Garfieibs relief bill from the commit
tee, az mentioned In my dispatches some
time ago. just now 1t is hard to tell which
cause had the most to do with the collapse.
but 1t is probable that Ellis threat to preair-
| itate discussion Of
THE CONDITION OF WHITE LABOR IN Tug
| NORTH
had the more direct effect OF cooin0 the en-
thusiasm OF the Radical politicians here. and
thereby operated 10 discourage the contribu-
tlons that had been expected from the North.
There 10 no doubt that the central feature of
the programme WAS the government aprro-
priation asked for by Garfield as the New
England agtators, proverbiaIly frugal az they
are with their pennies, probably never fnt4nd~
ed TO donate any more money than would ta
necessary to enable them to claim the credit
Of the whole, and Massachusetts. by aut,-
iao in pf pf fEs, x4nI
government furnished the other 95. would
| easily have gotten the credit Of the whole
| through the cheek and volubility of her repre-
sentatives.
GA.FIELD's BILL.
was adroitly drawn, and the Radicals expect
ed that the smallness OF the appropriation
only $4,000 would enable 1t to be Smuopled
through without much debate, the willy con-
spirators being well aware that the fact that
the government had taken the matter In
hand at all would set the negroes wild With
faith and expectation OF millions more tn
come.
It requires no particularly fntinate
acquaintance with the negro character and
habits OF thought to teach one what would
have been the effect Of news from Washing
ton that rations and tents were awaiting the
colored children OF Israel at indefinite points
to the northward; for by the time such news
could reach the cabins OF the negroes the
agents Of the exodus would have "a magnified the
| rations into banquets and the tents into PAL
aces OF hewn stone; I have no doubt that. az
Ellis remarked one day in CONVERSE
ton upon the subject, the pubIica-
ton OF the the TACT among the negroes Of Mis-
adopted the policy Of feeding them as soon az
they should leave their present abodes, Would
cause at least one-third of the entire number
to pun up stakeg Ts ana emigrate, even Il they
not under the influence OF any political no.
tion or expectation, but simply from the nat
ural preference OF the race for eating bread
without working Tor It. do not remember
to have heard In many a day so entertaining
or so instructive dissertation upon ethnof-
ogy as Ellis delivered, coloquially, to q small
but select audience in Aleck Stephens COM
mittee room the afternoon when he an
nounced his intention to amend Garaeld's
bill. His audience was mainly composed OF
Northern men, who had little personal knowl-
edge Of the pecullarittes of the negro as a.
race. and 10 whom Ellis quaint anecdotes
and illustrations were In the nature OF q.
revelation.
The first impression which the exodus made
upon the minds OF
NORTHERN DEMOCRATS
was undeniably of extreme alarm. Thev
DeHeVeu THAT Inc movement would attain
proportions sufficient to seriously disturb
the present balance OF population between
the sections, cut down the representation OF
the South In the next national apportionment,
and colonize enough negroes in all the close
Northern States to turn the scale permanent
ly In favor OF Radicalism. Naturally such mo-
mentous apprehensions ag these profoundly
disturbed the Northern Democrats. They
knew that the managers OF the Radical party
would scruple at nothing; they believed that
the financial resources of the Radical machine
were exhaustIess, and they feared that those
resources would be lavshed freely to pro-
mote the movement Of the negroes.
But the apprehensions OF the Democrats on
this score appear to have been as unfounded
as were the expectations OF the Radical man.
ayers. Enough has already been seen OF the
sequel to verify the prsdiction made 1our
found too deeply immersed In their own
wants and woes-thanks to John sherman
to care anything about the studiously pre-
pared rniseries OF Senator WINDOWS niger
trsasauerading as child Of Israel at vt. Louis
and Kansas City.
Well, as said at the outset,
THE EXODUS HAS COLLAPSED.
Garfield's bill to make negro sonp-house
ont of the Federal government has fallen still
born In the committee to which it was re-
ferred.
THE GRAND EMIGRATION AID SOCIETY
has utterly failed to elicit contributions In
the North. Not even cents have been realized
where ten-dOllaT bills were anticipated.
Rainey, disgusted and dtsheartened, haa
taken $500 cierkship In the Treasury De-
partrasnt And last but not least,
FRED. DOUGLASS
is out this morning In an open letter In one OF
the Sunday papers here denouncing the whole
movement as impractieable, absurd and
wong, and advising the ecIored people to stay
where they are.
Under these circumstances and In yfew or
the additional fact that the ernigrants are
already beginning to turn their faces houe-
ward from Kansas City, st. Louis, and else
where, / think 1t perfectly safe to assure the
readers OF the DEMOCRAT In the up country
parishes that the worst is over, and that they
need not apprehend revival of the move
fnent which 30 recently threatened to derango
their laboE system.
Moreover, On the principle that there u no