Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-18
a GoOD nuGGEsTION.

1t the National emig' alton aid SOCIETY
should happen to be In want OF a field for benefcen
labor venture to suggest that the National capita
presents that field. There is no other locality in tbs
Union where the colored people are suffering so ter
rIbly they here, and the only practical remedy
Tor th2if manifold miSeTleS Is emigration. Tit
supply of unskiled labor here IS enormously in ex
cess of present or prospective demand. Want
wretchedneSs, disease and crime are the inevitable
consequences OF this OvercrowdinR. For years thu
eafh,rate OF The colored peopis has more thar
doubled that of the VIII ties. VIII the National emf
grafton aid society begin lis work at home? Or vii
Il prefer to waste It's energies where its efforts
needed p Washington Post.
Nc! The National emigration aid society
will not assist the negroes of the nationa
capital to remove to place where they car
get work. It was not organized for so good g
purpose. 1t was organized for the purpose
of attempting the ruin of southern planting
cor munities, to induce negroes already al
work to leave their places and emigrate tC
Kansas, that Louisiana and Mississippi might
lose votes and Kansas gain them. 1t wa;
organized as last and final effort to iDjure
the south by those who are subje-t to
spasms of the negrophobia, which at
one time prevailed in the north and
northwest as a may tional disease. II
was inspired by hate of a people who
cannot truckle. whose conduct since the
civil war has been too manly for the sneaks
and sneak-thieves who have played upon the
gulhble negro successfully, even after
the barefaced robbery of the Freedman S
bank. No! Window has no love of the
negro. He is not moved by humanitarian
motives in this work of colonizing colored
laborers already as comfortably situated as
their intelligence and handicraft experience
will permit of. He is moved by the same
purpose as that which the brother of the dead
thief, Jim Fisk, avowed, of transferring the
balance of power from the south to the north.
Window hates the south and the southern
people. Her prosperity is an eyesore to
hunt makes his heart bleed. That ex
Confederate civil and military dignitaries
should occupy seats in the senate and house
is to him an unacountable and strange thing,
in view of the struggles of his party to make
slaves of the white people of the south, and
reverse historic justice by putting ignorance,
half-savagery and semi barbarism to govern
us. That the south has made more than
three hundred and fifty million dollars Of ex-
portable products every year since 1865, and,
besides, has grown and manufactured enough
to develop her waste places and rehabllitate
her ruined homes, is to Window a fearful
thing, in view OF our rebellion and what he re-
CARDS as our subsequent stiff-neckedness. He
C lnnot stand it. This must be put stop to.
We are doing too well. There is a prospect
that in few years more we may reach the
ease and comfort that once dwelt in all our
valleys, and that the hearts of our old men
and young may be Rladdened by prosperity
surprising anything dreamed of in the slave
days, that, happily for both races, have passed
away forever. Window thinks this must not
be. We must not laugh and grow fat, if he
can prevent it. Oar progress must be stop
ped. Tue negro, too, must be continu I'd
factor in the politics of the republic until
after the next Presidential contest. To kill
these two birds with one stone would make
Window famous. Hence the National emil
grafton aid society, and hence the cruel, cold
booded and sneaking attempt to destroy the
labor system of States governed and con-
trolled by men who have proven that they
have greater ability for the task than the emf;
grants whom Window sent down there after
the war for the same purpose as he now wants
the negroes in Kansas-to keep the Repub-
Iican party in power. But, so far as we are
concerned, Senator Window and his
aid society can continue work which has
already brought misery to thousands Of poor,
helpless and ignorant beings who, whenthey
get to Topeka fail to find the scoundrel
Jones, whose circular, coupled with Win
dom's CAB, has set this stream in motion.
Let them go on. As the negroes go out in
telligent white labor will come in, or perhaps |
we can secure intelligent Chinese labor. But |
anyway, there will be no lack of labor. |
Window will find that in that part of his |
programme, at least, he has overreached him.
self. Where there is work to be done, there |
laborers are sure to follow. and now-a- days |
in such numbers as to more than supply the !