The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-23
ness The work Of the session may 90 e&pecs-
ed to actively commence Tomorrow.
THE NEGRO EXODUS,

be UNDERSTOOD by Une country at large, anu
especially by the ignorant and credulous ne
groes Of other parts Of the States mentioned
The Republican or bloody shirt organs In the
North charge that this migration OF the ne
groes has been caused by the lawlessness and
cruelty Of the whites. who have prosecuted
these innocent lambs for political purposes,
and the New Orleans Times, so-called
Conservative or Democratic paper. re-
echoes these charges In Its edition OF yester-
day morning. Discussing this grave ques-
tion, the Times says:
Instead of at once accepting the fact that the
emigration of the negroes IL the result OF
spirit Of dissatisfaction with their surroundings
| and III Il sense of insecurity. from whatever
source inspired. these politicians have con-
tinued to assert that. the movement was orlRi-
u ee No IF Hi seuh 4 s q no te resa
OF local causes.
And again:
Northern politicians and philanthropists
could not have induced the .expatriation 81 100
negro families but for the belief that has settled
upon the mind of their race that they cannot
have Justice In the land Of their BIRTH
And again says our heightened commercial
organ:
Let us be perfectly frank. As we have said.
the negroes are leaving the State because there
apprehension that their civil and political
rights are In danger. q belief that they cannot
i have Justice The truth compels US to admit
that these appIehensions are not altoRether
unreasonable; that they are the natural results
men young politicians they think themselves
1 who have no interest In peace and order. since
they have no ambition but to get Office
Summing up, the Times says:
The fact remains that the threatened emigra-
ton OF the negroes is 10 be traced to the conduct
/ OF this class, who seem to emulate the name OF
bulldozers.
Here we find the New Orleans Times. a
leading journal printed til this city, claiming
to represent the commercial and conservative
classes deliberately charging that our own
people have outraged and bulldozed the ne
groes and driven them to the necessity OF NIL
grating to Kansas. Such utterances from an
influential paper, pretending to represent the
mercantile and conservative interests OF the
State, will have most disastrous effect. In
the first place they will lend vigor to the thou
sands Or tongues in the North which are ma
lgning us, and give color OF truth to their
infamous aspersions Of our people In the
second place the allegations Of the Times will
be taken up by the white and negro tramps
and politicians. and the Kansas railroad
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movement. and read to their poor ignorant
dupes, who will accept them rs confirmative
, Of their fears and apprehensions, and listen
, anew to the Inducements to fly their homes.
But the Times has not stopped here. To
read It's article yesterday morning one might
reasonably assume that the Kansas railroad
agents had hired it's columns to give addi-
: tional impetus to this unfortunate movement
Of the deluded negroes towsrd Kansas.
Having assured the country, and encour-
aged the negroes In the belief, that "the bull.
doEers"-the planters, farmers and merchants
, of the country parishes-are prosecuting the
: negroes and depriving them Of their rights
the Times ingenuously, as ingenuously, In.
deed, as Kansas railroad agent, or pamph-
let, or Illuminated poster, declares thai
: Kansas Ia the real land Of promise for the
!, negro, and that the white people there are
waiting to receive the dusky emigrants Will
n open arms and hearts. Sensible and humane
men, and those interested In checking
this wild and cruel exodus OF the negroes
from their homes to land Of starvation
and misery, have attempted to disabuse
the deluded negroes, and warned them
, that the stories they had been told Of
the fabulous riches Of Kansas and OF Its
genial climate are frauds, falsehoods and de-
Iusions But the Times joins in with the
white and negro demagogues and the rail
road agents and advertisers, and assures the
negroes that all they have been told Of Kan
sas Is gospel truth. Hear the great journal
istic representative OF the commercial inter
ests Of New Orleans:
= NIL. toll hat r. la 4 he
sunny and hosDitabla South they will find In
! Kansas cold and incltment weather and re-
0 ceive no assistance or announcement IRON the
this is all nonsense; 1t ts worse, 1t is not true
= and the folly, Of such Talk will only rebount
g of Kansas is mllder than Virginia. Kentucky
8 Maryland ana portions OF Tennessee. 1t is {
= wonderfully rich and productive country, ans
= the people of that State are only too ready tx
g welcome emigrants who are trained to agri
r cultural labor. 1t Is better that We shoult
"a frankly say this than that we should repeat thu
Q current stories The truth will ultimately reacl
. the colored people from those who have alread!
gone.
The letters and kilograms which come bacl
from the Northern and Western region the un
!, fortunate emigrants have reached, tell us tn
n most piteous stories Of poverty, misery
= actual starvation and DEATH But the excited
; ignorant feverish multitude still here are as
4 sured by the Times that genial climate ant
y hospitable arms await them In Kansas. Thi
: is simply heartless cruelty to the poor de
: luded negroes OF Louisiana and Mississippi
q 1t is also deadly blow at the agriculture
: interests Of the country parishes and countie
4 OF Louisiana and Mississippi and to the com
merce of New Orleans. Already some Of tn
q finest plantations Ia Louisiana and Missis
I sippi have been entirely abandoned by the mi
grating negroes, and now lie waste Not a bal
= Of cotton or bushel Of corn will be raised o.
\ them this year. Ii this movement continue
I whole parishes and counties will be aban
n doned. The negroes do not move separately
but In gangs or crowds, and when the Kansa
fever strikes a community of them they NOV
: off, leaving the plantation or community
d desolate waste. If this migratory movemen
| II will i'm nouerish and ruin larQ