The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1879-05-03

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it up as proof of their charges OF
the oppression of the negro.
Since the close of the civil war
The black man has been the victim
of Republican political managers.
He was organized by the Freed
man's Bureau rs a part ct the ma
chine for carrying elections under
the reconst. uction acts; aud then
followed the Freedmans Bank,
originally started for the best OBJ
jects, and Intended to encourage
thrift among IL people naturally
careless aud extravagant, with Safe
guards to protec, their savings;
but ring Of thieves at Washington
seized it and in.iuced Republican
Congress to change the law, SO
that they might steal the earnings
Of the freedmen
And now, without preparation
or provision of any kind, they are
tempted to leave the homes of
their childhood and the labor 10
which they are accustomed, under
the persuasion of getting land for
nothing, and opportunities t. bet
ter their condition. C,eduions
and ignorant, former experience il
deception counts for nothing with
them Carried away by sudden
impulse and delasion, they do not
stop to seek information, or to
count the cost of an adventure
which is likely to be followed by
the most serious consequences for
all who have e ,barked in it.
thousands will suffer from this
cruel imposture Immediately, aud
in the end other thousands will
became indirect vic Inns of par
tisan scheme, disguised as move
ment Of philanthropy.
New Orleans Democrat
Gen. Rosser, chief engineer of
the Northern Poetic Railroad. up
pears to know something about
the negro exodus from the South
ern States. He Processes 40 he
able to give an indefinite number
of them employment, and says that
such AS go to work for him will
have q great deal less work to
do than on Il plantation, and will
be Infinitely better paid for it He
already has five hundred employed,
and declares that they will earn
enough in a short while to set up
for themselves Oh homesteads, if
they SO desire. This is, eff course,
all interested talk on behalf of the
railroad company that employs
Gen. Rosser, which, we have no
doubt. is really at the bottom of
this panicky scheme. To begin
with, any man of common sense
aud the most casual experience
knows that the settled, orderly life
of plantation affords easier work
and better opportunities for econ
omy and frugalty. and. therefore,
for finally securing. at least, a
home. than the vagabondage of
railroad labor, with It's rongh 'ex-
periences, terribly hard work and
total freedom from all restraint.
We have suspicion, and it is
strengthened Ry Gen. Rosser's
talk, that this whole business is
sort of Chinese cheap labor"
dodge on the part of the Northern
Pacific, and that it will soon come
to he SO regarded by the people
of bleeding Kansas" aud that the
poor deluged negroes who have
gone there will be left to endure
the consequences. Freed from all
Scriptural parallels and political
SMILES suggestive of Moses and
the flight of Israel from the house
of bondage, this thing is the most
cold-blooded piece of inbumanity
that craft and avarice have ever
perpetrated on ignorance, credu-
llty and helplessness.
IN. o. Picayune. ]
The colored people seem to be
impressed with two ideas. First,
that they are badly used in their
present homes. and secondly, that
they can improve their condition
by emigratlng to Kansas or some
other Western State. As class
it is doubtful if they have any just
reason to complain of their treat
menL. They themselves are more
to blame for their condition than
else. They are dlssatis-
fed because, at the end of each
year they have accumulated moth
ing and are in debt They do not