The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-12-25

To the COlOred People ia the south
who intend to Remove TO the North
and West During the Winter ana
Spring of lSSO-'SI. Or Any other
Time
We, the undersigned, having taken upon
ourselves the responsibility of finding
homes for as many of our cOlOred friends
in North Carolina and other Southern
States as we possibly could, having given
our time almost wholly to the matter both
in study and travel for nearly three years.
We therefore take pleasure in making Il
brief statement. Our books show thirty
seven hundred and eighty-three men over
twenty-one years of age, eighteen hundred
and seventeen women and children, max
ing five thousand six hundred in all.
About 99-10Oths of this number were from
North Carolina. and about the same pro-
portion settled in Indiana. These people
are doing remarkably well; they are receiv-
ing from $15 to 800 per month, and some
more than that. Capt. o. S. b. Wall,
who aided us so nobly in managing the
exodus in the fall and winter of 1879, has
Just returned from Indiana where he has
been getting in some good work: He gives
fine statement of the condition of the
emigrants he says their health is good
he saw a great many who had from two to
three hundred dollars in the bank, and
their children all attending the best schools
in the country, all satisfied and doing well,
save q few loaters, and the most of these
have returned to the 4" flesh pots of Egypt"
Let them go. But we again say to our OPP
pressed and loyal friends in North Caro-
lima and other ku-kluX Southern States, II
you would be free, go to Indiana, where
you can make decent living for your
selves and families, and educate your
children. There is room enough for
twenty thousand families; they are going
ieve they viii all go; don't wait to see
what will turn up, but hitch up your mule
if you have one, or anything else that can
draw a wagon, and start at once. The
Southern kI-kluX and bull-doZers are talk
ing of running JEFF Davis for President in
1884. Will you wait and see the cOnse-
Guences! That rebel element and ku-
kluX spirit of 1861 are still alive in the
South; go west and grow up with the
country and an intelligent people who are
friendly to you and your national govern
ment. We do not know how soon another
rebellion may spring up. Should such a
thing occur, (Which is not at all unlikely
we would certainly be grieved to lind our
already oppressed friends on the wrong
side. Again, come out, and come at once,
or you may regret it when it is too late.
If you can't get off any other way, try the
old style let us start an underground rail-
road, and let us go where the murderers'
shot guns are turned into plOws, and bull
dOZers cannot come. There is general
uprOar already in some of the States lately
in rebellion among the cOlOred people. A
desire to better themselves has seized them
like a panic, and they are wondering
where to go. They know that further at
tempts to elevate themselves in the South
is useless. To all such we gladly advise to
seek homes in Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Mi
chigan. Wisconsin, Nebraska, Oregon,
New Mexico, New York, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Delaware, and all over the
North get awOy from the South, no use
wailing for salvation, but seek it, this is
Divine teaching and must be true. De-
populate the South and we will subdue the
rebel spirit that was not subdued from 1861
to 1865. Believing as we do, that the hope
of the cOlOred people lies in the exodus, of
course, our work has been mainly indus
trial from the beginning. While we claim
that the elevation of the cOlOred people
must come from different source other
than the leaders of political parties, we do
claim that the Republican party is the only
friend to the emancipated and impOverish-
ed African. 1t being the only friend to the
country and all of the people, the cOlOred
citizen rs well AS the white comes in. The
recent election in the Southern States ought
to convince every loyal citizen, white and
cOlored, North and South, that the day for
justice in the TebelliOus States so far as Re-
publican is concerned, is ut an end. An over
whelming exodus to the Northern States H.
the only remedy that we have to give, and
the success that has attended our Iabors IN
the past makes us the more anxious to COM
mend the remedy to other oppressed friends
who are studying some scheme for escape.
We must not forget the noble assistance
rendered us by our northern friends last
winter, and especially the Emigrants Aid
Society ut Washington. Some Of the mem
beers here deserve special mention. Cap
tain o. $. b. Wall, President; Prof. II. r.
Greener; J. W. Cromwell, ii. W. Menden-
hall; 5. j. Bowen NJ. NJ. Holland; DIR. J.
Z. Rankin; J. MeAdams, have our heartfelt
thanks for the work and aid they rendered
us at a time when our friends were in
Washington In the winter Of 1879 ON their
journey from the wilderness to the prom
ised land. Having given the situation Of
our eOlOred friends in the wilderness
close attention, we are prepared to state
that they have nothing 10 lose in their exile
from the wilderness buteyerything TO gain.
Save your money. and when you have
enough TO pay your way, go TO Indiana or
New York, or some Of the States men,
toned. Kansas is a good State and has
taken care Of over forty thousand emf
grants this year, and she has all she can do
to provide for those already there. Let no
rebel stop You in your attempt 90 leave
the house Of bondage, but be determined
IN your efforts and you will be sue
eessful. Put your trust in God, and he
will bring you out more than cOnquerors.
Feeling satisfied that we have rendered
what aid we could. we remain.
Your Obedient servants,
SAMUEL L. PKRRY,
PETER G. WILLIAMS,