, 1880-02-07

been U1eQ at all. In0S0 dIO cVmO~ Oi@ LILO
incidents which must be expected to recur
for some time yet, in view Of the past ms.
tory and the present condition OF the
South. Ten years is too short a time Tor
the two races to have fallen into their pro-
per place, and to have. settled. down ami.
cably side by side. Their fusion may be
impossible, but we may hope that in due
course they may establish a modus Tsuendix
though we may, perhaps, have to wait
another ten years, Or even longer. before
this is complete.
The kind of troubles to which the South
is at present exposed will be seen from a
letter we publish this morning from Mr..
Charles II. Allen, The Secretary OF the
British and Foreign Anti.Slavery Society.
Mr.. Allen, as his office would leao us 10
expect. las much to tell us about the
wrongs inflicted Oil the negro race Dy the
~tyrannicaI conduct of the whites. We are
quite sure thai there is only too good fOun-
dation for the charges re brings, not for
the first time. AS 81 picture Of Southern
society, his letter would be most mislead-
inc, as an examination Of it's contents, and
Of the evidence given i'll support OF it,
would, indeed, suffice to show. lie writes
about what he terms " the suffering col
Z" cured freedmen in the Southern States OF
"America and the general exodus that
" has set in from those States to Kansas"
Now, these phrases, we cannot help OD-
serving, are much too large for the facts.
They are supported by two stories OF gross
~iil-treatment suffered by negroes, by
a general statement that these cases are
typical. The stories were given in a letter
printed last November. TIL proof follows
this morning, if proof, indeed it can be
called, The witness cited is ~unimpeacha-
BILE; it is no less q parsonage than the Go
vernon of Kansas. But in the Governors
letter to Mr.. Allen one of the stories finds
no place at all, and the other is given as q
report, On the truth. or falsehood OF which
the Governor declares himself not able to
pronounce. For the exodus from the
South he does vouch, but not In such terms
as Mr.. Aliens letter would have led us to
expect. Large numbers, we are assured,
are migrating nOrthward to Kansas, and
this they are doing, not from any love Tor
Kansas, but because their position IN their
native State is not ~tolerable. NOW, mere,
at once, the question of numbers arises.
Mr.. Allen has told us that these involm-
tary emigrants are to be counted by
hundreds and by thousands. There is q
rhetorical ring about such a phrase which
seems to warn us not to understand 1t TOO
literally. But even five disregard the warn
inc. the hundreds and the thOusandsssare a
very small fraction of the millions OF negroes
in the Southern States. An exodus thus
limited is hardly to be called a general one.
Again, that the poor fellows should arrive
with very sad stories to tell ABOUT tne III
treatment from which they have tied is
much more a matter of course than that
the stories should be strictly trne. we
must allow something for the very pardon.
able exaggeration in which all men are apt
to indulge when they are describing their
own wrongs, and in which a negro would
be least of all likely to be found wanting.
But why, it will be asked, should these
emigrants all go to Kansas rather than TO
any other State? One answer will be that
they have good promise Of a hospitable
reception in Kansas, and it is quite nossl.
BILE that this may nave had some influence
in determining the journey itself, as well as
the destination of the journey. A negro
must be mnch more fond of hard work than
he is generally supposed to be II he is quite
Indifferent to the attractions offered him by
the Kansas E~reedmeu's Relief Association,
and the money it has to bestow. lie must
be much more rigidly truthful than the
rest Of the human race if his statement
when he applies for relief can be accepted
without proof. We look for facts and
figures, but we do not find either OF them.
The facts are wanting in detail, and the
figures either do not appear at all Or relate
only to the futnre, and not to the past.
The Governor of Kansas would not De sur
prised if the immigration of coloured PEG
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