The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1879-12-20
THREATENED ExODUS.-For

sometime before the election il
was bruited about that the color
ed population intended emiglat-
ing to Kansas IN the early months
of next year if the Republican tic
ket in this state was defeated.
Playing upon this key some OF
the candidates on the Radical tic
ket in this parish, 50 it was said,
proposed that if elected they
could and would check the threat
ened exodus. This was a legiti>
mate play but it didn't win. No
attention was given to the mat
ter, and no importance attached
to the proposals made 10y the OPP
p%onemts of the Democratic party.
Our people we're not to be deter
red from doing their duty by IL
threatened migration ofthe .co!Or
ei laborers. They We're resolved
to elect the Democratic state and
parish. tickets even if every negro
in the state left it, and they have
done so, and if the negroes are
not satisfied with the result, we
say none will be more seriously
injured by their leaving than them
selves. If the new constitution
and u Democratic government is
good enough for the white people,
vino own all, or nearly all proper.
ty, real and personal, in the state
and pay the taxes, TO live under,
certainly the negro ought not to
object to it.
Yesterday while standing
in front of q grocery store On
Texas street 1--WE heard a negro
man give as'reason why bis race
did not take as active part IN the
election Tuesday as formerly. that
they were "gOing to Kansas next
year and didL't give a copper
what became of the country" If
the speaker reelected the senti-
memts of a majority OF his race in
this parish onr people acted wise
ly in not bordering to their whims
by voting for any man opposed to
the Democratic party. Ii the he
gro will not learn wisdom save by
bitter experience let him go to
Kansas or anywhere else as soon
as he chooses. When they have
gone their places can and will be
supplied by white labor, and in a
few years eur state will De filed
with IL thrifty, industrious aud in
telligent population. The old
fieIds and waste places that are
now growing up in brambles and
sedge grass will be brought into
cultivation, thriving villages and
towns will spring up in all direc
tons, property OF all descriptions
will enhance III value, and no
more will 1--WE hear Of want and
suffering in a state comprising the
most terslle soil in the world and
the finest climate. The negro IS
Il valuable laborer but he may as
well learn first us last that hisser
vices are not Indispensable that
the white people are not going TO
make amy personal or political Va
criticeS to retain him they can
live and thrive without him.
The planters should fully in:
form themselves rs to the inten-
ton of their IabOrers aud it they
ascertain they are disconnected
ana determined to go then let
them make preparations at once
to supply their places with white
labor from the Northern and East
ern states. II action in this i'm
pOrtant matter is not deferred too
long theincOnvenience anticipated
by many need not be experienced,
as there are thousands of skilled
labOrers, farmers and mechanics
in. those states who will come
among us if the proper induce.
ments are held out to them
From Shreveport Times.