The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-04-19
The Foolish Exodus.

from one place 10 another IN large nunoe.s'
"a ohs.,rd ,or such numbers TO undertake
TO emisra,e, and fatally so TO attempt 70
em;erate northwardly. They could not DO
th.t unless trees were weighted with con-
s,o,,,,r.r,neninp fruit and MA ma was spread
over the fields.
The alarm caused by the want OF food and
clothing OF course had to come, and OF
course resort had to be made to the General
Government officers, aud next to Congress.
Aod what was to be expected from tnat
device. AssurcdIy great deal OF per-
p,eyitv would be caused. The New 1orh
Tribune told the negroes when starting 1of
Eorsas that the people Of Kansas had hard
fine in settling Kansas. They had to sup
mr., themselves while breaking the land TO
the plough. and endured durins that trying
nsrjod great amount OF misery and want
and discomfort. And that paper Informed
the negroes that people who had the hardi-
hood and sclf.denial to conquer new
country were not TO be expected tG give room
10 The new conner, and to make tn, way alto
eetiier e:sy to him. All! no. The new
conner would find it very serious matter.
He would have to support himself and
make his way as his hardy white predecessor
had done. This example would offer the
co!orcd man rather discouragns example.
Il j. no wonder that calls should be made
on inc fanatics who have thus far done
nothing beyond inveigling tie negro into
trouble and leaving him there. These ml'-
chievous persons are always ready TO run to
tbe Government and pray for an overflow
OF bacon or rations TO distribute to nlen who
have had thciriim 50 occupied with politics
that thew had no time to make crops or sup
port themselves.
The constant repetition OF appeals to sup
port those whose want of peace and rest
drstu.bs the thrift and industry OF the c"ui-
Try is undoubtedly getting very annoying
and from now it will he found more ana
more difficult to raise the means of support
for those who have been dcluded by the
schemcrs and party trickstcrs, VINO nave
never done anything good to the country
ard have only succeeded in bringing ne
crocs into trouble and distress, without
Il y;ng the means to relieve them IN thelr
necessities, and without having the desire
to do 50 i! they had the means.
Mich OF the trouble that existed IN tue
South has never failed 10 come from the ras'
calv politicians who have undertaken all
the time TO lead the poor, simple negro "
the nose, aud produce trouble ana klndie
bid passions. Never has there been the
moment that those who undertook TO lnfu.
ence OFT elections did not misrcprcscnt and
eyarrcratc the white party. Nothing was
more natural and more fagitious. In this
way hundreds OF disturbances have been
worked Up. Provocation was most easily
thrown into the ring, and then followed
wrongs and complicated outrages. And
now q budget Of allegations is made the
cause for fleein. from certain quarters, and
much Of the fleeing is from their own ana
the iollies of those who had rs much TO do
with them as others.
It is false to say, however, that these dis
turbances are still increasing. They are dl-
minishing. 1t is the blackguard southern
white rascals who arc seeking 10 revive the
disturbances in some parts OF the South.
They want the present disturbances 10
favor their expedents to cooperate with
such malicious and vindictive partisan
schemes for operating upon the elections in
the North and making an impression upon
the census. That is it. 1t is this Which
started the hegira, and it has hardly be-
gun before the negroes are i'll trouble;
their little farms are abandoned they
are run aground; and away the Ia
Mates and hypocriical phlanthropists
hurry of to the President and the Secre-
tary of War, and so on, finally to Congress
"For the love of God give us some bacon
"and some corn, and some warm clothing
"and wrapping. The good colored peo-
sple who are dying for some work will
I" certainly die for some bread and meat il
"they are notssuccorcd, and that soon.
Could not you stretch out al overflow OF
"bacon 10 cover the case:"
This is bard. Amt it, As sure as these
people live they are hem,nins themselves in.
and 1t is pretty certain that their shallow
devices will soon run dry.
One Of the worst phases OF the presexts
for casting ccnsurcs over those OF the South
who are incidental sufferers from the ioca-
ton they dwell in is the SANDER that has
been made to fall upon large populations
because alleged wrongs have been commit
ted in the heat OF blood where blows have
fallen and blood been shed-where the dead
have had sometimes white and sometimes
q black skin, and where quiet people were
driven to shrink and hide from peril which
spread alarm. 1t is indeed fearful where
such things occur, and where innocent and
quiet people are often DETAINED by the SLAM
Gcrs OF the needless.
The hegira is the absurdest of things. 1t
lacks everything that should be needed to
set on foot a thing of the kind. It can do
good to nobody. And the poor negroes are
the most deluded OF all. The ianatlcal
fools will reap no harvest in that field, and
nobody that takes part in the matter will
derive any good or achieve anything else
than disappointment.
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The Labor Investigation.