Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-01-13

tleman's measure. This looks like at
least an acquiescence and conditional
endorsement OF Bsyard's resolution
IF" we are to judge the propriety Of
Mr.. Hendricks amendment by the
application Of the use of the "hypOth.
esis" as illustrated in the proposition
of the English Monarch Henry, wher
he wanted to know the reason why a
live fish did not weigh as much as a
dead fish. However, political ichthy-
ology is a mysterious science.
There is reason to believe that
action will be delayed on the bill to
pay Federal Marshals as the
accounts have not been rem
dered for lack Of information,
Senator Voorhees, committee to in
quire into the cause of the negro exc
dus from the Southern States will or
ganize this week and at once begin
work. If this committee deals at
length with the subject matter Of
inquiry, it will elicit much information
of interest to the country. If the
people of the South would act for the
good of their country, they would ac-
lively interest themselves in assisting
the negro to get out of the country.
The plains of Indiana and Illinois are
good places for the negro. They need
the political influence, if not the social
presence, Of the negro there. Then
there is Ohio, whose soil, climate and
Radical population would not be dis
advantageous to the negro. If the
South expects ever to become anything
like a great country, it must reduce
the negro population, so as to invite
white labor to her cotton and sugar
fields. People who oppose the negro
exodus do the South a great damage.
In Tennessee we have twenty-sever
million acres of land, an area
about equal to that of England
Of this land there are not 100000 in
cultivation, Some have placed The
tillage to only 100000. There is buI
little demand Tor land in the South
1t is because the ignorance, improvi
dence and want of moral character il
the negro, incident not more to thu
nature of his race than his recent con
ditiOn Of slavery, make his presence
serious impeachment to white labor
There is no progress, nor enterprise
among our people, for in their efforts
to develop the country's resource.
they have no intelligent assistance anC
reliable cooperation from the negro
race which constitutes such a larg,
proportion of the laboring class. Witt
the presence of the negro the South
except here and there, ustretrograde
Look at the census returns for Soutl
Carolina from 1860 to 1870. Her pop
u%lation did not increase l per cent
Look at the depreciation ofreal estat
in West Tennessee and Mississippi
In the latter State land can be bough
for a trife, and yet ther,
is no demand. Often land rents 70
more than it can be sold for.
Along the Mississippi river, wher
the soil is most fertile, land can b
bought for less than 81 per acre, tn.
same having been forfeited to tn.
State for taxes. Whenever we &c
sufficient white labor to cultivate GU
lands in the south, there will be
prosperity among our people like unit
that before the civil war. To get thi
white labor, it is a prerequisite condi
ton that the negro emigrate from tn
south. That white men do and ca,
raise both cotton and sugar, no one
who takes the trouble to inquire, ca.
doubt. But let us organize all throug'
the south societies to aid the negro i
his exodus, and thereby take advantag
of a measure inaugurated by the radi
Gals for the detriment of the south
SALTUs MoHEGAN.