Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1879-05-01
THURSDAY, NAY J. 1879.
The Negro Exodus.

The champions Of equal rights are b e
coming aroused throughout tn. country In
the interest of the colored people who are
flying from Southern oppression. Phllan-
thropists are forwarding money and offers
OF employment which will, in time, miti-
gate the sufferings being felt by the refu-
gees Some Of the causes which have led
to this movement are given in the follow
Ing extract from a letter received by Will
liam Lloyd Garrison:
II saw Ia the papers notice OF your
readiness to receive subscriptions for the
poor people flying from Southern inhu-
manity and villainy TO any place where
they can live 10 peace. get decent living.
and not be defrsuded of every cent they
earn. The Southern people, as a mass.
are impervious TO any ideas of honor or
manliness. The truth is" said a West
Indian planter, years after emancipation
had given him time for serious reflection.
slavery made devils of US all. " The
same is true all over our Southern States
but the bulk of the people. though having
had time enough for serious reflection, are
not capable OF 1t Tor the most part, and
not inclined to it the rest, and the inhuman,
devil-like spirit OF slavery still controls
them. FoToearance and patience seem
utterly thrown away upon them.
take the first opportunity TO enclose 10
you my check to be added to what you may
collect for these long-sutiering. and SO I'M
speakably outraged people. IL is terri
bic problem; but the nation sowed drag
on's teeth for many generations. and sup
pose the whole crop must be harvested.
Some hope would exist IL We could see s
single instance Of a Southern court pro-
eeeding against and Furnishing a single
murderer OF these inoflenslve and worthy
and patient creatures. There will be no
place, and there ought to be and can be no
prosperity, for any Southern community
until they do arrest, try impartially aud
execute the full penalty of the Law upon
every one VINO lifts the hand OF violence
against these defenceless people; sod the
beginning should be made with Butler.
Senator from South Carolina. who should
be arrested snd impsrtially tried and, ii
guilty, suffer the laws penalty. But As
long AS that State selects such n msu, the
head OF the murderous assaults of July 1.
1876. TO receive her highest honors, lesser
and more Insignificant parderers take IL
cense TO follow the same bloody trade, aud
expect to do so with impunitv. What OF
the vast mass Of laborers, who cannot get
unable 10 transport their few effects, and
without means 10 sustain themselves on
the long fightf"
Nor is wendell Phillips less alive than IN
former times TO the treatment the colored
people have received from their former
masters. and the necessity for open handed
generosity in their present need. To re-
lief meeting held in Cooper Institute, New
York. last week, Mr.. Phillips wrote As fol-
lows:
Il am exceedingly sorry that cannot be
with you. My health is not such rs 10 al
low of IL. ! have no words 10 describe
what | consider the importance OF your
meeting. Only two paths are open TO The
colored men Of the South; one Is TO resist.
aud protect themselves against intolerable
oppression by arms; the other Is 20 leave,
one-nslf of them. their homes, and teach
their oppressors Justice by the severe les
son of suffering. Leave the tyrants and
DULLES TO ill their own soil or stafve while
they do nothing but wrong and rob their
laborers. Without laborers the Southern
acres are worth nothing. Even q South
erner will come TO his senses, or, II he new
er had any senses. obtain some when he L
starved. trust Ihe NORTH will, as in Kan
sas pay. org anize and help open channels
AID contribute means for a large smigia-
ton from States ruled by thieves and cut
throats. who know no means OF getting
their bread except by robbing their neigh
bors.r