The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-11-25
From the SpriuaAeld Reu,tlican.

| A negro exodus of unusual dimensions
is said to be- preparing in tho South, and
J. C. Browne, Quaker, who has been
laboring among the negroes OF Louisiana
and Alabama says thousands Of c0lored
people are leaving pell-mell. Informa-
| ton from other sources indicate that all
exodus on large scale from various
parts Of the South is probable this Vim
| ter.
Being questioned with regard to tho
matter at New York, Gen. Il. W. Con-
way said that at the present time there are
organizations of colored men in all the
Southern States that have for thcir ulti-
mate object removal to other parts of the
| country. Every member of these Or
| gauizations has moro or less money. At
the present time they are known az be.
nevolent associations, ''brotherhoods"
of one kind or another, DC. No man call
| become q member unless ho has some
money, and no idle or shiftless person
can geta place in them At present they
number 100000 persons, and, lat sig.
| nal,n said Gen. Conway, "they will
move" When the Vicksburg Conren-
| ton was held last year to consider the
exodus movement, strong feeling was
manifested among the blacks to keep up
| the movement, and not place any reliance
on the promises of the Southern people
that they would treat The colored men
with more consideration in the future.
But the advice of Gen. Conway and 9TH
ers was taken, and they determined to
wait, though in the meantime making
such preparations thac If they should
be forced to leave, they 60 prepared to
begin life in other scenes and under bet
ter auspices. "Well." said Gen. Conway,
"the election came on and the bulldozing
began. They were treated as badly, as
ever. The crops were gathered, and they
were cheated right and left. The old
scenes were re.enacted. Mr.. Browne tel
egraphs that the blacks are leaving pell-
NELL. These are not members Of the or
ganizations have referred to-, for they
won't move until the word is given, if it
must be given. They are people made
desperate by their wrongs and suffergingS.
Some of them perhaps have not more
money than will take them to st. Louis,
but they feel that no fate can be harder
than theirs has been, and no change can
hurt them. This is a new and danger
Gus feature of the exodus; movement
that is very serious for the South, for 1t
shows that the blacks are determined to
leave. Last year the exodus would have
reached astonishing proportions If the
advice Of friends had not prevailed. But
it looks now Us If the bull-dozing and
oppression of this year had rendered the
people desperate, and they will go now"
Queston-In that event lat will the
South do for its labor?
Gen. Conway-That is the problem ths
South will have to solve. The Southern
people in the near future will have to
turn themselves to something besides
politics and bulldozing and cheating the
ignorant blacks. How to raise their
crops will be the question of the future.
Question--But where arc the blacks to
20 and how are they to De provided for?
Gen. Conway-A company has been
organized with j. NJ. Woodward, of New
Rochelle, at its head, and hereafter the
exodus will be conducted on business
principles. Seven hundred thousand
acre, of land have already been purchas-
ed in New Mexico, and moro will be ac-
quired as it is needed. The movement
will be conducted by business men on
business principles. The emigrants from
the South will be treated just as any 9TH
ers from foreign countries. Colonies
will be established and land will be
bought The condition of the blacks
must improve.