The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-12-25
THE MISERABLE POLITICAL IN
cENDIARIES AT WORK AGAIN

| THE ml6EhAoLG In
cENDIARIEs AT WORK AGAIN
We find on our table II circular let
ter purporting to come from Washing
ton, ID. c., and signed by Samuel L..
Perry and Peter G. Williams, Agents,
which we publish in full in another
column.
Without entering into any of the re-
taliatory and venomous spirit that
abounds in the circular, we consider
it our duty to caution the honest col
ored people against the utter disregard
of truth in its statements. Here is Il
statement that negro ,laborers COM
mand from SIS to $50 month in Indi-
ana and other Northern States, and
the idea held out that most of the ne
groes here have accounts at bank
ranging from two to four hundred dol
lars. The melancholy fact is that
most of these negroes are on the point
of starvation, and nine out of ten re-
| turn to the South who are able to do
so. The country is flooded with negro
mendicants, and philanthropists are
sent East to levy contributions upon
the charitable for these people.
We have nothing to say against the
effort of these sweet-scented "agents"
to depopulate the South TO crafty the
diabolism of their hatred to us. If
they can induce enough of the discOn-
tented and mischief breeding negroes
to eXodust TO destroy the numerical
preponderance of the race and thereby
put aside the constant menace Of their
ability to take charge of the govern
ment of this State, they will be play
ing into our hands, and doing us an
unintentional service. Nothing would
contribute mere to the solid prosperity
of Mississippi than n healthy exodus
of negroes. We can easily stand the
partial "depopulation for the security
it brings. When the colored "smart
Alexis" get out, the balance will make
good and useful citizens, and cultivate
relations of friendship and cooperation
wirh the whites, and it will then be
understood that this is the country for
them, and that the Southern white
people are the friends who are able
and willing to help elevate and inn
prove them. Then, having cotton rid
of the firebrands and strife-breeders,
they will be able to find happiness
and prosperity in unstinted trust and
honest work.
1t is well known that in the State of
Georgia where the negroes do not APP
proXimate the whites in numbers the
race question has ceased to be Il prob
lem, the negroes do not aspire to gov
ernment, hardly to factor in it. The
consequence is, with conditions inn
mesurably inferior to those in Mis-
sIssippi they are content to work and
be happy and are rapidly accumulat-
ing wealth. The example of the Geor-
gia negroes furnishes good lesson
they have given the real clue to the
sensible course for the negro to pursue
elsewhere.
1t used to be question in this
country whether or not the negro was
created to be slave to the white
man. II never was question
whether or not the white man was
made to be slave to the negro. In
all cOuntries-in all ages-the Anglo
Saxon race have asserted their pre-
eminence and maintained it. The
negroes cannot govern this State any
more than they can govern Indiana
or Iowa. They will not be permitted
to play into the hands of u few dia-
bolical outcasts and hold this COM
munity in state of anarchy, corrup-
ton and imbecility. Until he gives
up the idea Of governing, the negro
will not get along well here or any
where csc in America. The white
people outnumber him, and they think
they know more than he does. In
any case they are not willing to sub
nit to his government. He can vote !;
he can be elected to office; but he
must quit doing either in the spirit of
hostility to the white race, if he would
not provoke retaliatOry hostility and
distrust. In word, he must recog-
nize the grand historical, physlolog-
ical, indisputable and accomplished
fact that Ethiopia is to play subor-
dinate part in the government of each
and all of the American States.
We trust, therefore, that Mr.. Perry
and Mr.. Williams and other pious
souls of the North who mistake
hatred for philanthropy, and who
would rather destroy Southern
white man than save Southern
black man, will succeed in persuading
some of the irreconcilable to eXodust.
The State can spare them. The peo-
pie will remove the obstacles to their
movement. Let them go.
DISTINGUISHED VISITOR.
Col A X Mcclure of the plila-