The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-04-23
A CRUEL DECEPTION.

least Objectionable portion OF col
umn of a more provoking character
There is implanted in every mans
| breast, be he high or be he low, prin-
/ ciple which we see cropping out on ev-
cry page of theworld's history, and that
| principle is: to resist oppression. The
| timidest animal, the weakest insect IN
all the creation will, when pushed into
| a corner, turn upon its assailant. 1t is
this principle which is at the bottom of
the stampede.
The editor of the Chronicle Is a
native of the South-has been rails
ed. educated and lived all his life
among the people he SO persistently
misrepresents. In his heart, he
knows the assumptions Of the par,
agraph we quote are-well, to be
miId-simply absurd. If there is
any one thing in this world which
community, State or section, cannot
afford to lose it is that class which
furnishes the bone and muscle in its
industrial enterprises. The Radical
papers all over the country are pre-
claiming that the hegira of the COLI
oreG element from the Southern
States is the result of oppression and
vindictiveness on the part of the
whites. Nothing could be less true,
nothing could be more improbable,
for the simple reason that the aver
age Southern man is not a fool, and
does not kill, willingly, the goose
that lays the golden egg. There is
no class of people in this world more
keenly alive TO the fact that the pc
cuniary prosperity OF the South de-
ponds very largely upon the willing.
ness of the eolored population TOD
furnish labor at its fair equivalent
than the Southern people them
selves. This fact no one knows bet
ter than the editor of the Chronicle. !
Hence his charge that the Southern
people are responsible for the depar-
ture of the colored people from their
midst is simply prepostefous. The
truth is-and the Chronicle knows
il as we'll as we and our readers
know it-that the colored man, as
we'll as most white men, ib just as
|
lazy and unproductive as he can af-
ford to be. But the Chronicle knows,
also, that for months past there have
been stories conveyed TO the colored
people of the South, from its parti-
zan friends of the North, Of the
wealth, advancement and easy life
which awaited them on their emigra-
ton to the West The editor Of the
Chronicle knows as much OF the con-
fding nature of the colored man
of his over credulous nature--as any
man alive. He knows that the col
ored people have been prompted TO
this hegira by the false representa-
tions Of members Of his own peliti-
cal party, who have industriously
the report-and it may
be and probably is in the interest of
Northern transportation companies
that the colored people on their
arrival at St. Louis, would be proVid-
I'd with means to take them to Kan {
las, where they would receive with
'ut price or cost, lands, mules, ETC.,
uffieient to give them comfortable
living. Under the influence of this
and false inducement,
thousands Of poor deluded colored t
,eople have left their comfortable t
nd quiet homes in the South only !
0 find themselves the Victims of
eartless fraud. They who have :
zen the victims of this heartlessness
now that it did not originate with
hose with whom they had lived and f
abored, and the Misrepresentation h
f the Chronicle will be repudiated o
y the intelligent portion Of its white y
9aders as it will be entirely by 8
nose of the poor victims Of Repub- h
can heartlessuess who may ever G.
ave the pain to read its outrageous "
ssertions. Probably no better, or D
.uer, or briefer key to the whole e.
latter Of this colored hegiFa could
e given than this extract which we
opy from religious journal: a
The St. Louis Christian AdyOeate quotes a.
ON the St. Louis Presbyterian a circu- f.
r, copies of which are said to have >,
cen extensively distributed in BIissis- =
ppi and Louisiana. This circular -
hich is Endorsed strictly private" is ID
tied from the ''Oft1ce of Colored Colo I'll
cation Society, Topeka, Kansas, Feb. hi
1879," and is headed Attention, Col =,
ed Men - It goes on to say that ar
Your brethren and friends throughout
e North haye observed with painful
licitude the outrages heaped upon you -
your rebel masters, and are doing all
ey can to alleviate your miseries and =
Ovide for your future happiness and -
osperity. President Hayes, by his u
quitous Southern policy, has desert "
you, while the Democrats, who now Il"
we control of Congress, will seek to 90
Slave Won If Won re,ooir IN tbo so,tb ha
d to protect you from their designs as