Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-05-06
The Exodus Of Negroes from the South.

The most intelligent of the negro race
do not approve of the exodus OF the
negroes from the South to Kansas or
the North.
Mr.. J. Milton Turner, late minister
to Liberia, and one of the most intelli-
gent celored men in the country, agrees
with Ex-Governor Pinchback in fearing
that the freedmen's movement will
prove to be fraught with disaster to his
race. He has publicly declared that he
thinks sit is a question whether this
immigration to Kansas is not mis-
take" He says that the colored people
"are taking heavy responsibility when
they break up the country and go to an
industry and climate they are not &C
customed to-" Mr.. Turner adds: IT
suppose there has been some bulldozing
at the South, but the question is not
about that any more; the democrats
are in power there now, so why should
they wish to bulldoze?"
AS the Baltimore San says, Mr.. CARR
son casts discredit upon his own persist
emit efforts for the abolition of slavery
by the way IN which he raves about this
exodus, as if he thought he could per-
suade people to believe in the wild CAB
BILE of 'bloody misrule, /" fraud, terror
ism, and murderous violence" which
comprised the burden of his letter to
the Faneuil Hall meeting. There is
no such thing, of course, and cannot be
in the nature of things, and to assert it.
as Garrison does, upon mere hearsay
and without Investigation, is to do the
grossest sort Of injury to the people
whose next friend he sets himself up to
be. AS Mr.. Turner says, most unan-
swerably, why should there be any bull
dezing when there is nothing to be
gained by it, but everything to lose ?
In the circular issued by the Mississippi
planters and merchants who have called
the convention which is to meet at
Vicksburg, May 5, one of the main OBJ
jects of the proposed assemblage is sta
ted to be to correct "the false and SLAM
derous charges which have been stead
lily kept before the world by the enemies
of our people," The call adds:
1.-THE undersigned do not in the least
believe that this emigration movement
has been caused by any unjust treat
ment of the laborers, and do not believe
that they are treated or dealt with less
Justly or less literally by the planters of
the South than the laborers anywhere
else in the world. We have no scheme
for their amelioration except to COM
mend them to industry and economy.
It is not the purpose of the convention,
as far as its originators know, to discuss
with them any political questions, or
any themes of a kindred character. We
believe the convention should endeavor
to allay the fears which incendiaries
have secretly generated in the minds of
the ignorant colored people, and should
also endeavor to dispel the decisions un-
der which they are laboring by reason of
the false promises OF their false friends"
The Vicksburg Herald reports that
Senator Bruce, a colored man who is as
intelligent anu conservative as ex.Min-
lister Turner, approves the objects of the
convention. He thinks that the So
called exodus is likely not only to cause
industrial embarrassment at the South,
but much suffering among the colored
people themselves, and he is of opinion
that the convention will do much good
by restoring confidence between the
races and removing the false impress
sions caused by the tales which have
been told the freedmen by designing
knaves.