The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1879-09-25

The goverumen, has DO power to enioros
The Constitution and laws In that section,
and that there Is 20 hope Cor The poor
negro but 10 plant him in the new soil Of
Kansas aud Nebraska. These men DO
the oolored people OF the Soath real
damage. They give their enemies an ad.
vantage 10 tbe Argument FOR their nan.
hood And freedom, They assume The IN.
abili,y Of The eolnred people ofothe South
70 take care Of themselves.
The country viii be told Of the hun.
dreds who go 10 kansas, but not Of the
thousands who stay Ia Mississippi aud
Louisiana They will be told OF the des.
tiiute who require material aid, bat not
OF the multitude who are hrATely sustain.
ing themselves where they are, Ia Geor.
gia The negroes are paying taxes upon
six millions Of dollars, aud In Louisiana
upon forty or any millions, aud upon
ascertAined sums elsewhere In the south.
ern states. Why should q people who
baye made such progress In the course OF
e few years now be bumilated aud scan
dAlized by exodus agents begging money
10 remove them from their homes, espec.
tally at time when every indication
favors position 10 which the wrongs and
hArdships they have suffered are soon TO
be redressed.
Besides the objections thus stated, II Is
manifest that the public aud noisy sdvo.
caoy OF general stampede OF the colored
people from the South 10 the North is
unnecessary, an abandonment OF a great
aud paramount principle of protection to
person aud properly In every state 10 the
Union, II Is an evasion OF solemn OBJ
legation and duly. The business OF this
nation Is to protect its citizens where
thery are, not to transport them where
they will need no protection. The best
that can be said Of this exodus in this re-
speet is that ii is an attempt to climb up
some other than the right way. Il Is
surrender, premature, disbeartening
surrender, since II would make freedom
aud free Institutions depend upon emf
grafton rather than protection, upon
flight rather than right, upon going into
q sirangs hand rather than staying In ones
own. 1t leaves the wbele question Of
equal rights upon the soil of the South
open and still TO besettled. II the people
OF this country cannot DO protected 10
every state OF this Union, the government
OF the United States II shorn OF Its digni-
ty aud power, the late rebellion has
triumphed, the sovereignty Of the nation
is an empty name, and the power and
authority 10 individual states is greater
than the power and authority Of the
United States. The negro will be better
of to stay in the South than TO emigrate.
The exodus will prove disappointment,
| II II Is expected to better secure political
rights TO the negro, and will be mistake
aud failure. In the South the negro
has at least the possibility of power; In
the North he bias no such possibility, and
II is for him to say how well be can afford
TO part with this possible power.
The negro, as already intimated, Ia pre-
eminently southern man. He isso both
in constitution and habits, in body as
we'll as in mind He will not only take
with him TO the North southern modes Of
labor, but southern modes of life. The
careless and improyident habits of the
South cannot be set aside in this genera
tion, and If they are adhered to In the
fierce winds and SHOWS OF Kansas and
Nebraska, the emigration must be large 10
keep up their numbers. II would appear
therefore, that neither the laws OF politics
labor nor climate favor this exodus. II
does not conform to the laws of healthy
emigration, which proceeds not from
south to north, not from heat to cold,
but from east TO west and In climates
TO which The emgrants are more or less
adapted and accustomed. Nevertheless
the way from South must be kept open
the negro must not be bottled up in the
South, and II il is attempted by force and
fraud to keep the negroes to stay in the
South they should go, 20 quickly, and
die IL need be in the attempt.
II viii not he wise for the southern
Shareholders aud their successors to shape
their policy upou tbc presumption that
The ncgro's cowardice or fUrbestauce has
no limit The fever OF freedom is already
Ia the negro's blood. He Il not what be
was just IA years ago. To forcibly dam
up the stream OF emigration would be a
measure OF extreme madness, a. well as
OF oppression. Ii wouii be exposing the
heart OF the 0ppressor TO The pistol and
dagger aud bis home 10 ire aud pillags.
The theory Of land and liberty, the watch
word OF the nihilistic party in Russia, has
q music In II sweet 10 the ear of all op.
pressed peoples, and well shall It be for
The landholders OF the South II they shall
learn wisdom in time and adopt such
course of jost treatment toward the land.
lees lsborers OF the Sonth 10 The future as
shall make this popular walchword un-
contagious aud unknown among their la
borers and further stsmpedes TO the North
wholly unknown aud impossible.
A rHRtLLIso APPEAL wnica SAVED
LIFE.
ln = recent case in recorders court,
Attorney j. w. Donovan told the follow