Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-04-08

er BY the old master clas, and bsing hepe
len Of . favorable change in southern opin
lon, they have naturally enough urged .,
Il this move - . meens of inducing . sobe
second thought ~ the part of their whit
f~llow-citisens. For this purpose Il viii
b productive of . limited benefit, but il
will not, in my judgment be sufficiently
beneficial to compensate for the hardships
which this movement will entail upon the
actual emigrant. Such emlgrants, however
entsrprising and industrious, are exceeding
" poor; and their very poverty and wretch-
edness will not fail to need, whether they 60
almost indescribable suffering has been en-
of our coolest winters, have found their way
I think. too, that the movement will be in
furious in unsettline the hopes Is we'll as
the homes Of these people, and that it is an
of faith in the ability Of the nation to pro.
tect them, aad also an abandonment of faith
in the progress Of civilization in the south
ern states. l remember when the New
England states were pervaded by prejudice
on race ~ intense and bitter as Is now man
Tested toward the colored people in many
of the southern states. Within the last five.
and-thirty years q woman wa imprisoned
in Connecticut for teaching black scholars
to read and write. In Massachusetts, l have
myself been denied accommodation at the
humbleat public-house, not allowed abaft
the wheel on board of steamers, and not
permitted to enter . concert or lyceum hall,
or a decent railway car. All this is chang.
ed now, and what has happened in these
northern states in the way of civilization
may be expected to happen alse in
the southern states, especially in
view Of the fact That rival
ambition among the superior race will ulti-
mately spring up and divide the parties,
and thus make the black vote a necessity to
their success, and one of the other of such
parties will lean strongly to the side OF
equal rights against the feeling of the OLD
master class. The negro already has q
vantage ground in these states. He is the
bone and muscle Of the south. He has
hands against mouths and soOne or later
he will be supplied with courageous and
able leaders of the white race and contri.
butte his share to the progress and prosper
lty of the section to which he belongs. The
Window resolution has no doubt contri.
buted somewh hat to this movement. The
principal, however, upon which it proceeds
it as utterly impracticable. There
can be no separation of races within the
limits of this republic. There can be no
outside of American citizenship
and if the black race could be separated
the white, the line between them
would be q line of strife and blood. If, on
the other hand, they inhabit tue same ter.
ritory the same race antipathies will proba-
bly, exist and produce the same results as
those from which they have fed. The
hope of the negro, like the hope of every
body else in the republic, is in the progress
Of enlightenment and civilization, and the
south will more and more, in my opinion,
Become open to those influences. Although
southern land holders are unwilling to be
taxed to support negro schools, the school
master is abroad in the south. and hundred,
and thousands are learning to read, write
and to count. Contrasting the present con
dition Of the colored people with tina
which existed previous to the war, l canno
but refuse to despair Of their further peac'
and happiness in the states on the soil G
which they were born."