The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-09-23

very great and, as In FORMER years, the COL
ored people OF Cairo and Alexander county
could have gone to Louisiana and Missis-
sippi in great numbers to find among their
former masters the means Of subsistence
which they fail to find here. This year the
planters of the south, both black and white,
seem to be put tomore than usual trouble in
securing their plantation hands and their
calls upon the idle men and women are as
numerous and as loud as ever and are in
variably accompanied with offers
of the most liberal At the opening
of the cotton picking season the price paid
per hundred pounds was seventy cents,
which would enable most any one with .
little experience to clear good sum daily.
But nowthe price has been raised to one dol
lar per hundred, and the cry for more help
still continues to be heard with undated
yigor. A few Of our coored people, know
ing this to be an opportunity for making
money, are onXious to 90, and have made
all necessary preparations to go, but are
prevented from doing so by the efforts Of
our overzealous politicians who arouse their
fears by telling them that if they 60 among
the people OF the south this season they
will not be allowed to return to their
homes until after the coming election.
Our attention has been called to several
negroes who have sold out their little gar
den truck and household goods at less than
their value, preparatory to embarkiug for
the plantations and earning money for the
winter, but who have allowed the nonsen-
steal stories about the treacherous designs
on the part Of the southern planters, many
of whom are negroes, to change their de-
termination and remain at home. These
stories are in most cases circulated by men
who are generally supposed to be honest,
and who pretend to be the colored mans
best friend, though they never contribute a
cent to his subsistence; but whose known
intelligence precludes the idea that they
are cincere IN their differences and, by thus
deceiy.ng the colored man in matter Of
dollars and cents, leave no doubt that their
loud affirmations oflove for him are basest
hypocracy. Ex-Gov. Beverage, like his
contemporaries in the business, filled with
an insane fear that some Of the colored
voters, gong down south, might stay there
until after the election, and thus weaken the
Republican party in this county, warned
the colored men in his audience at Mound
City the other night, that If they vent
among the cotton planters of the South they
would not be permitted - retuln, etc.
In former years, when there was no
election to come off, the Republican poiti-
clans had no use for the colored man and
did not hinder him from going dow South
10 pick cotton. Consequently the negroes
Of this county, of both sexes, left in large
numbers and returned at the end of couple
Of months with their pockets full of money,
which they spent freely among our mer
chants, This year, influenced by these false
reports they remained at home, even refus-
ing to accompany planters Of their own
color, who were here short time trying to
engage hands, and offering good wages
As a result they will depend exclusively
upon odd jobs for their subsistence, and
may become serious burden to the com
munity.