The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-02-05
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Congressman Money, CT Mississippi,
having said that he hoped The exodus
of negroes from the South would con
tinur until the whole of the race,
whicL has been disturbing political ele-
ment, should be removed, the New York
Tribune wants to know "who will do
the labor of the South when the labor
ers are gone" The Tribune, along
with other papers of its sort, has been
encouraging this negro exodus, and
from Its inquiry it is clear enough to
see, that the same evil spirit of section
alism, which not long ago drove the
South to defend itself in arms, still ex-
Ists, and that the pretended sympathy
for the negro and the desire to see him
leave the South arises, not in the wish
to see his condition bettered, but
to see Southern whites financial
ly injured. The Tribune wolld
have the negro leave the land where
he has lived so long, but it Is clear that
this opinion is bolstered by the very
sweet idea thit SIuthern property will
thereby be made valueless. The Iri-
6ltne may content its soul IN peace, for
the South is not dependent upon the
negro for production. He became the
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dation and brutality of New York and
New England traders in African hu-
manity, and after growing rich upon
the disposition of slaves and up
on the patronage of the South, these
same people OF the North, these whom
the Tribune speaks for, are bitter and
uncompromising enemiCs of Southern
people, who would in their own opin-
ion, simply to crafty spleen, destroy
the energies of the whole South. But
the agency which it Is proposed to use
for the South's ruin is by no means
fraught with such danger. The Tn
6une and its people are welcome to the
negro. The South can, as the STATES
MAN has often said before this, do with
out him, and were there not black man
or woman in the South to-day twenty
years hence it would be more populous
and more prosperous than with them
remaining among us. Europeans, and
people of the Northern United States
have avoided settlement in the South
because of the negro. Without the
negro Tennessee and Gsorgie, and Ala
bama and Mississippi would hsYe been
as populous as Oaio, and Texas would
have had 5, 900, 900 instead of 1000. 600
of people. Southern Texas was first
settled by shareholders. Thirty years
ago Southern and Southeastern Texas
were the only settled portions of the
State, and there were the shareholders
possessions. Northern and Northwest-
ern Texas were unknown wildernesses,
but when opened to settlement and
when laboring people began pouring in
from all parts of the globe, avoiding
the black belt, noted for its richness Of
soil above all other portions of the
State, and for facilities of transporta-
tion surprising any other section, it
was svoided by these laborlng
white people as p'ague district, and
so it has been avoided to this day, be-
cause alone of the presence of the negro.
Such facts in the settlement of Texas
applies to the whole South, and
instead cf on line south of Austin
down to the Gulf coast, there being
present population OF six or
seven hundred thousand soulF,
there would have been, without the
presence of the negro in this district at
least 1900, 600 of people. As to the
Southern people not being able to labor
for themselves, the st. Louis Repu5li-
can says: The men whose brains have
always directed the black workers, and
whose money has paid them, will see
to this. The Southern whites have
learned how to work since the
war, and are not ashamed or
afraid of it. Ii there is not
enough of them TO supply the demand,
they can draw all needed reinforce
uents from the North and from Eu-
rope. Should the negro population
be removed entirely, or reduced to in
significant dimensions, its place would
speedily be filed by another in every
way superior. Such country as the
South can never lack for inhabitants.
Its resources are too great to be neg
lected In this age, and while the whole
sale withdrawal of negroes might
cause much temporary embarrassment,
ten years afterwards these States would
be ten-fold mere prosperous than now.
There have been good many exhibit
bitioDs of retfibutive justice at the ex-
pense of the Republican party, and 1t.
Is not improbable that there may be
another, and this one the greatest of
all-the transfer of oppressed Africa"
to the North.
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