Daily Republican., 1879-03-25
The GOlOred Exodus.

The exodus Of colored people from
the South has grown so such iormid-
able Dimensions that the planters are
becoming alarmed, and will not be able
to till their broad, fertile acres of corn
and cotton, unless it is speedily check
ed. In their distress the planters Of
Madison Parish, Louisiana, have called
upon ex x.Governer Pinch back, who, be-
ing colored man, they thought could
induce the migrating people to abandon
their determination to leave that Par
ish, but even Pinch back, with all his
influence, could not stay the exodus.
The results of the fearful intimidation
and massacres to which the colored
people of the South have been subject.
ed and which they have borne patient
ly are now before the people of the ma
tion, and make strong appeals to both
sections for mercy to the colored man.
To the Southern planter, the effort to
/ reach land of real freedom, is an ap-
peal to stay the murderouS hand Of
political persecution, and instead Of
the whip and the bullet, forbearancs
and kindness and protection are all that
these poor people need. To the people
Of the North, the sufferings OF these
colered people appeal in equally strong
terms. These poor blacks have left
their homes because they are bullet
ridden and blood splashsd. They have
been invaded, and the husband has
been shot down in the presence Of his
wife, the wife outraged in the presence
of her husband and children, and the
little ones have been murdered in the
presence Of their parents. The helpless
blacks, powerless to protect themselves,
and the Republican party pewerless to
protect them, and the Democrats their
mercless prosecutors, are looking out
for place where their citizenship is
not an offense and an affront. The Re-
publican party not being able to pro-
tect these people in their rights in the
South, let all whose hearts are touched
with humanity help these fleeing fugi-
tives from oppression until they
reach new and free soil in the West,
where they will be secure from the
planters lash and the Democratic bull
dozer's bullet. The colored race Of tAr
Mississippi Valley, smarting through
the prosecutions of its enemies end the
false professions of its friends, are look
ing westward, and the van OF the great
black cloud having reached st. Louis
they are suffering through want. The
simple, trusting, contiding souls were
as usual deceived about their passage
money, they being under the impres-
sion that they had free fare from st.
Louis to the land of freedom in Kansas,
about which they have been fondly
dreaming. The dispatches tell us that
these people are suffering in St. Louis,
and measures have already been taken
IN send them back to their old homes
Of blood and desolation. Here is al
opportunity for the philanthropy o
th. North to show itself. shall these
poor people be helped on their journey
where they can till the soil in peace oI
must they be turned back TO face th'
bludgeon, the rope and the pistol
They are slaves no longer IN name Il
least, and therefore it is NO. now as i
was in the days of slavery crime II
assist flying fugitive from oppression
and violence. on to freedom. Had thu
Souts been lnerciful to the blacks ant
protected them in their newly acquired
rights. we would be the last to encour
a.e this migration which has set il
from the South, and even now if th'
Southern people would protect then
from the violent whisky drinking bull
dozers. WE. would advise them to returl
to the land of their nativity. But un
der the persecution which has seel
waged against the blacks Of the MiSsi'
sippi Valley, no person can blame then
for seeking homes where they will b'
free from it, and should they suffer by