The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-12-03

d. ton Aid Society
. By telegraph to the Tribune
90 WASHINGTON, November-The Office
- of the Emigration Aid Society of this cit
ID make an appeal to the people of the Mort
/. for aid. A printed circular sent out to-da
OF says:
n. Thus far the chief work of the society ha
, consisted in extending aid to those VIII
- have attempted to make their way Wes
ward in destitute circumstances. Th
society has before it, however, petition
g from many hundreds of colored people VIII
n live in different parts of the South. VIVA
they implore is assistance in efecting thei
escape from a condition which they describ
o as "worse than slavery" The appeals ar
indeed touching, simple and sincere. 1t i
= in their interest that an earnest appeal Is ex
n tended to the philanthropic people of thu
ri entire North. 1t is hoped and believed tina
they will respond to the cries of these dis
tressed people as they would to the waiting
| victims of a scourge."
c The names signed to this paper are those
r Of people of well-known responsibility and
standing in Washington. An officer Of the
society states, that between fifty and sixty
e colored emigrants were here last night
awaiting transportation to the West.
A party Ofsixty colored emigrants from
Lagrange county. n. c., left this city last
I night for Indiana where they propose to
settle in Wayne county. The party remain
ed here for two days waiting for the Nation
al Emigrant Aid Society to raise the means
to pay for their transportion. They were
quarted in a railroad car and were fed by
the Woman's Christian Association.
We know of no way to successfully
meet the utterly false statements con-
tanned in the circular. They are manu-
featured for one of two, or probably
both purposes, to make money by i'm
posing upon the credulity Of the North
ern people, or to make political capital.
The latter is no doubt the chief object,
but both will be accomplished according
to the success of the plan. What we
have said, and what all properly inform
/ ed people know, is that no laboring
/ population on earth has been favored
with better opportunities for improving
their condition than the freedmen of the
Southern States. They live in a eli
mate, and cultivate crops, peculiarly
suited to their natures and habits.
They have every means Unemployment;
and have had capital furnished them in
the shape of lands, teams, horses, fuel
supplies and everything that was need
ed to enable them to get start in the
world To the credit Of some of them
not large number, they have improv-
ed the opportunity; but none of them
have suffered for the want Of food and
raiment Their political and civil priv
ileges are carefully protected. Public
schools are provided for them equally
with the whites who pay four-ffths of
the taxes; and nothing is lacking for
their happiness and prosperity except
to be let alone by the agitators who are
constantly originating schemes to per-
petuate strife in the interest of the Rad
zeal party.
We are told in the extract quoted,
that party of negroes had left North
Carolina for settlement in Indiana The |
latter State has small Democratic
majority and the object is to colonize it
with Republican voters. Turning to
another page of the Tribune, we find
copied into its columns from a North |
Carolina paper, the following report of
an Industrial Exhibition of the colored |
people in that State, coupled with an
account of their true condition, which
is an ample refutation conveyed in the
statement that they are fleeing to a
Northern State to better their condition
Here is what the Raleigh On. c. OBJ
server says:
The Industrial Exhibition of the colored
people that opened here on yesterday is
highly creditabe to them in every respect.
As an enterprise it shows that they are
in their efforts to elevate their race. The
exhibits are good and indicate that the
colored folks hereabOuts are not thriftless
set by any means. We have not at hand a
reliable estimate of the quantity of land
negroes own in North Carolina, but it is
very considerable, and is increasing each /
year. A great deal of the farming in this
State is done entirely by negroes, who either
rent the land for money or for a part OF the
crop, or work on shares upon other terms !
satisfactory to them. There are many negro
schools taught in North Carolina, and a {
number of military companies
have been formed by the negroes under our
general law. They have quite forgotten
that they are the "wards of the nation" i
and feel that they are no different from J
other folks in the matter ofmeat and bread, p,
which is one of the prime objects of their l
existence. Their fair now being held is l
mark of their progress in the various walks
If life. There are five papers published by
,Olored people in North Carolina. Some of !
,hese we have seen, others we have not. !
Those we have seen are certainly conducted :
p the interest of good government and with 1
view of promoting natural and friendly a
relations betWeeR the races.
How long will it be before there is
'uch condition of industrial progress
md opportunity of improvement for the
,olored people in the Northern States
o which tits the purpose of the so-called
1migrant Aid Societies to entioe them ? :
The answer is best found in the treat
nent the blacks havs heretofore received
mong that people. They are hahitually
ssigned to the mental occupations, and
ave never been permitted to rise above :.
hem.
The doom of the negro will be recor-
led if this Emigration movement should
e a success. His will be a scattered
ace, practically without home or coun- !.
ry or friends, the prey of ill-fortune
rought upoa him by designing knaves :
citing under the guise of friendship. =
We repeat there is no method the
eutbern white people can devise to stay
he current. They can make no con- =,
essions beyond the point they have
one, They have recognized and pro- :
aeted the political and civil rights of