Louisiana capitolian., 1880-01-10
THE EXODUS RENEWED.

As we had reason to expectit, num-
bers of the colored people who have
saved their earnings during the past
year, are leaving our neighborhood
to seek "new fields and pastures
green' where their ambitious dreams
are to meet a complete realization.
70 those whose minds are set OH 60
ing away, we have nothing to say,
other than the sooner they gothe ear
licr will experience teach them that
they've jumped from the frying pan
into the fire.
TO those who remain, we would say
that this is above all other sections of
this Union, the country for their race.
They know its soil, climate and the
cultivation of it's products they are
here in such large numbers that po-
litically their votes will always secure
to them the exercise of their rights,
and more privileges than they can
obtain when isolated in a strictly
"white mans country" Let them
look around: In New Olleans, for
instance, the colored element have
become the stevedores, draymen,
warehousemen, laborers, etc. Their
women are everywhere employed for
housework. On the river steamers,
colored men monopolize the labor as
deck-hands, walters, ETC., and this
at wages that cannot be obtained for
such occupations anywhere else. In
every other town or city the same
thing can be said. On the plantations
the colored race again has the mon.
opoly. They can find employment
quicker in the South than tl1 whites.
On the other hand, transport them
to Kansas, Indiana, or any other
State, and what do they encounter? ?
White competition in the wheat and
the cornfelds; the same in tie work
shops and thehouseholds in the cities.
The monopoly there is for the whites.
Here they live together among
friends and relatives. They have
their churches, schools, amusements,
societies, and in fact, everything that
binds their race to our soil.
Why is it that the far West'and the
State OF Texas are filling up with en-
lgrants from the old world7 1t is be-
cause Il ship load of Germans. for
example, can find room sufficient to
colonlze in a neighborl,ood, SO that
they may preserve their language, GUS
toms, faith and social intercourse.
The colored people are just trying
to do the opposite; they are isolating
themselves.
Ihey must understand that in the
white settlements of Kansas and thc
other Western States, where they 20
to compete with white labor and in
dustry, they will meet with a rivalry
that does not exist in Louisiana.
There will be less social equality
where they are going than at home.
They won't become Senators and
members of Congress there any more
than here. That is sure.
Then the question resolves itself
into this: Is it better for the colored
man to remain in the South and mon
opolize the labor, or is it to his advan-
tagc to go elsewhere in competition
with the whites
AS to the effect on the South, We
can't we'll see that the colorea exodus
will be but a temporary embarrass-
ment. AS they go West to raise the
produce ut cheaper rates for the South
to consume, cotton and sugar raised
In smaller quantities will bring better
prices; so that phite men will find it
remunerative after awhile to come
here and cultivate our lands in small
farmsand otherwise. The white steve
dores, deck-hands, laborers, draymen,
who, since the abolition Of slavery,
have been compelled to abandon
these pursuits to the colored people,
will return and the whole trouble ar
range itself.
Therefore the colored people have
itin their power, by leaving and dis
seminating themselves, to make Lou
isiana, as we'll as Indiana or Massa-
chusetts, "white mans country"
BY remaining they can retain the bird
in hand. Will they seek the one in
the bush I?
" Two young gentlemen came over
from Girard on Thursday night, or
rather Friday morning. and serenaded
the editor and three ar f0ur other