The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-03-26
Later from the Kansas Emigrants.

The ST. Louis Globe-Democrat en-
ployed a special Notary Public TO take
the dispositions of colored emigrants from
the South; and they have repaid the
enterprise of that journal, with fine
assortment of blood-curdling stories.
They were charged extravagant rentage
they were not allowed TO vote-were
killed, if they did not pay their debts
were not permitted to read, Though the
people are heavily taxed, to support
schools for the education of both races
and much more Of the same sort of
thing. One F. j. Watts, a former saloon
keeper at Vicksburg, tells a character
istic story, not one line of which is true.
Here is part of 1t:
There was meeting of eplored people over
there 10 get a reduction IN rent. and the white
people heard of the meeting and tried To get
away with those who attended it, and killed OFF
some colored men. y colored lady named
Laura Lewis who taught school about seven
miles from Bovina, told me she had To flee Tor
her life and left her bonnet and shawl in the
sehool-room; her dress torn and wet with
dew; all oceasioned by her expressing her
opinion of the grievances of the colored people.
4 person in the South dare not express an opin-
ion against the Democrats. My leaving was oc-
eaSioned by an advertisement L saw III the
Nicksburg Herald, notifying all parties that
furnished information to encourage emigration
to Kansas il they were not spotted they would
be- and when they were found out they would
find that climate too hot for them
Could anything be more utterly false
a. well as ridiculous. The colored peo-
pie in the South who are well disposed
and know these stories to be
fabrications, owe it to themselves and
in Justice to all concerned, ought to hold
meetings and contradict them
as well as to warn their race
against being drawn into a movement
which can bring nothing but disappoint-
ment and suffering. The same paper
from which the foregoing is copied,
publishes the following account from
Kansas which the colored people
were induced to believe was 1.-The
promised land :"
TOPEKA, KAs., March 21-There is consider
| able feeling here over the arrival of Il detach-
| ment of the INDECENT and hoodwinked negroes
| from St. Louis, and threatened coming of more.
About 200 have reached here, and are huddled
together in an old unused building in utter
| " destitute condition. Most of the men are ig-
| norant field hands and the women mainly
| aged and incompetent, some OF them being
| quite old and infrm. There also large
number of children among them and half-gr0wn
| and helpless boys and girls. They poorly
clad, and wear a fanished and pathetic look
The men say they came here expecting to find
employment or to be supplied with means foI
| farming and thew show printed circulars and
| letters, dated at Topeka, and signed by parties
unknown here, urging them to come to Kansas
and assuring them that they can procure farms
and have houses promptly provided for them
| free of cost trouble. 1t is evident that these
! unlucky creatures have been systematically
| duped and swindled by INSCRIPTIONS parties
What is TO become of them it is difficult to con
| lecture. A large share of them must inevitably
| become objects of charity and charge upon the
public treasury. 1t means the forced addition
of a large pauper element to our population
| The necessity for some repressive counteract-
ing steps is being urged upon the city authori-
| ties.