, 1879-05-02

llHholH, AaWh, N0ifhskA, h1i1R1H, AMI hiI
over tlo Northwest. Tl,eso l'noplo were
1'oor MIL lnndlosA. Tl.oy hired tho land oil
wl,icl, they woro born, mil, tired
of paying for II oyor md over
ngain, they havo como hitlnor to
occupy lond,-fresl, folds, whicl, they and
buahcl Of grain t1loy produce they can oall
tl,oir own. Thoro hn1o beon moro wluto
families como into tho North since tho War,
hooking land which they eau own, tLnn
there will DO blncka during Tho next five
yonrs, oven II tho exodus becomes porms-
mont.
The danger which tl1rontens tho Southern
landowner is not Mono that tho laborer Is
nbout to leave, hut that tho teuants will also
leave, II, iudoet, they do not prectde, tho
1csa enlightened md ambitious iic1tl-hauds.
Tho Southern nogro.tenant 1nbors boaida h's
hands and foolH 1t no degradation. Flo 10 n
freo man with all the hopca md ambition
natural 10 froemon. Az n tenant, paying SO
por aero out Of his crop for tho moro ,lso Of
the land, lo with bnt littlo difficulty COM
paros this condition and tho condition Of
cultivattng hin avn land without paying
such rent. IIa knows tint lie can find lnnd
all over the North which he can
purchase nt from sD to So per nero with
the privilege of paying for 1t ut the
end Of ton yoars; or tint ho eau tako
n homestead Of 1C0 aores Of land FREQ; or
pro-empt reserved lands at low rricos on
long credits. On suo1 land ho knows that
overy days labor will bo for himself; every
bus1, TINT grows, every fower TINT blooms,
oyory blade Of grass that springs from tho
sod, will bo his own; and tho man and tho
raoo emanoipntod from bondage inslinotivoly
yoarns for that freedom in fact which Yields
to labor tho possession and enjoyment Of
whnt 1t owns.
Now, II Mr.. INaEnso1l ind his associates,
tho land-ownors Of Issaquena County, Missis-
sippi, mud Of oil tho othor counties in tho
SOUTH, will reflect seriously, they will under
atnnd that with freedom tho negro hns ac-
qnired intelligence; that FREQ labor will uever
remain permanently upon the soil which it
cultiyates but does not own that tho free
blncka naturally seek to own land, and TINT
they will seek that land where they can ob-
tain it for tho least money and on tho best
terms that II they cannot find land whoro
thay wero born at as reasonable prices as
they can in Kansas, then they will shake tho
dust Of Mississippi FROM their feet and
go elsewhere, just az the German, En-
gliHlman, 1rishraan. uud Scandinavian
hnye left their nativo homea 10 find lands In
theEe Northern States which they can calt
their own. If this gentleman mud tho other
Southern landowners will cut up their 8, 700
acres of lind into small tracts, and sell them
in competition with tho lands In Kansas at
80 per aorc On ton Years time ut 6 per cent
interest," ho will find African customers at
homo; mud In the end will make moro money
ont Of tho operation thnn by clinging to a
lanil.systcm which is wholly Inconsistent
with FREQ lobog, aud whose destruction Is
now as hand. The blacks aro free. They
must and will have lind. II they oannot
havc forty acres per fan,ily in Missisaippi by
purchase on fair terms, they will sock 1t by
eighty aud 1GO ncres in the North froo. Tho
Southern plantors must part with thotr lnul
or part witt, tho labor which cu1tiyatos it..
Tho reason why white 1abor las mover sought
Southern lands is't that which now drivos tho
negro from It, anl *that Is TINT FREQ labor
must own the land it cultivatoa.