The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1879-08-15
Ez,a Exodus.

rotary OF the EnlgraAt Scciety OF tue
District OF Columbia has received a
letter from Gov ST. John, Presi dent
of the Freedmeus Relief Association
of Kansas, from which he following
extract was taken:
"The tide of emigration continues
to dow Westward in almost unbroken
! e'reh ms--and, npless checked by guar
antiiaA xegolations estaUrshed along the
| Mississippi. there Is no telling just
where it wit stop We fud it very
difficult Will the means at our com
maud to relieve the nece tiles of refu
gees. but IRE doing the best we can,
aud have thus far prevented any actual
suffering Ii seems 10 me the people
of the North do not comprehend the
magnitude of this movement, otherwise
/ they would eertainl, take greater in>
terest 10 the matter SO far our asso-
citation has extended aid to about 1 600
destitute coiored people We have OBJ
tanned employment for them, and plac-
ed them in such situations that they
are now self-susiaining, but it has cost
a great deal OF money We have re-
ceived some aid from abroad in fact,
from certain sections of the country
quite liberal donations have come The
city Of Cleveland, Ohio. has given
81 eco; but the great city of New
York, so far as know, have not given
that many cents What is needed is
money.
1t is 10 doubt true that some OF
these societies, and some individuals
will make a pile of money out of this
movement; hat those who are willing
to be ble1, let them bleed. 1t is got
ten up in enmity to the South, and to
perpeiuate political prejudices, but
like many another move from the same
source, it may return TO plague the
inventors, and ultimately prove 4 bless
ing to the South. We can see nc
reason why Southern people should
oppose tie moyement-except the
spirit in which and the purpose for
which it is gotten up. For every coll
ored laborer removed to the North or
West, there will come q white laborer
10 the South in his stead. So there
will be nothing Loaf. There is, and
r,---.---5rs --.tV rO.s, - :
Republican party has the confidence
of the black men, an antagonism be
tween the colored and white people Of
the South. There is no real cause for
such antagonism, except the outgrowth
of politics since the var. This being
the fact, there should be no objection
to the colored men, those who want to,
to emigrate TO the West or North
The politician has made large mum.
bers OF the black men believe that
they are oppressed, &c, &c. BY and
by When shoy 20 North, they will fad
that the iaboriug man has the same
complaints. Here, the negro is in
fnenced to act against what il his own
iuterest-that is the common interest
of TIE whites aud the blacks, and he
is taught that politics is the panacea
for all his ills, real or imaginary. But
wrong as it is there is, and will con.
tinue, conflicts between ;he two races.
If these parties, who are working up
the exodus moyomeut-tryiug to get
tho colored man to leave the South.
would 90 az it 30 p,a.er -pirit leav
ing politics gu; OF "a question large
numbers of wifi Sou hern people
would give them helping hand The
white farmer IN ne South now knows
that thousands Of white laborers are
ready aud anxious to take the place OF
the black men on their farms, aud
suffer no uneasiuess on tina; score.
There are thousands of colored men
who know their own interest too well
to be hurried away from their homes
for "political tricks" but that class
who are perpetually dissatisfied, bad
better go.
EFrecedens for EsufOrd.
In uote to the Bride of Lammermoor
Sir Walter Scott gives the following &c
count of the assassination of Sir George
Lockhart, President of the Court of Ses-
siOns, Edinburg, by one John Chiesley:
che (Lockhart) was pistolled in the
High street of Edinburgh by John Chies-
ley, OF Dairy, in the year 1889. The re-
yenge OF this desperate man was stimu-
lated by an opinion that he had sustained
injustice IN a reet-arbitral pronounced
by The President assigning an alimentary
provision of about 50 lbs. in favor of his
wife and children. He is said at first TO
have designed to shoot the judge while
attending upon divine worship, but was
Inverted by some feeling concerning the
sanctity of the place. After the congre-
gaton was dismissed he logged his vic
tim as FAR as the head of the close on the
soutl, side Of the Lawn market, in which
the fresidencs house was situated, and
snot MIN dead Is he was about to enter it.
This act was done in the presence of nu-
merous spectators. The assassin made no
attempt to fly, but boosted of the deed,
saying al have taught the President
now TO do justice" He had at least given
MN ialr warning as Jack Cade says on a
similar occasion. The murderer, after
the torture, by special act
OF the Estates of Parliament, was tried
before the Lord Provost Of Edinburgh, as
high Sheriff, and condemned to be drag
ged on hurdle to the place of execution,
70 nave his right hand struck off while
ne yet lived, and, finally, to be hung on
lne gaiiows with the pistol wherewith he
shot the President tied around his neck. !
ms execution took place on the Sd of /
april, 1859; and the incident was long
remembered as q dreadful instance of
Tnat tho law books call the Pe.tsrpiaua
'Ss"'E7' ssosoran."