Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-15

other time" The object Of this precious
document is to inveigle the colored peo-
pie of the South to emigrste to the bleak
Northwest, Messrs. Williams and Perry.
of course, receiving their regular com
missions per head for every black man
they can delude
We cannot convey more correct idea
Of the true character of this scheme to
make money at the expense Of the lives
of ignorant blacks than by publishing an
extract from the aforementioned circular,
which reads ss follows:
"Our books show thirty-seven hun
dred and eighty three men over twenty
one years Of age, eighteen hundred and
seventeen women and children, making
five thousand six hundred in all. About
80 100 of this number were from North
Carolina, and about the same proportion
settled in Indiana These people are
doing remarkably well; they are receiv-
ing from SIS to $50 per month, and
some more than that Captain o. S. B.
Wall. who aided US so nobly in
making the exodus in the fall and
winter of 1879, has just returned
from Indiana, where he has been get
ting in some good work. He gives
fine statement of the condition of the
emigrants; he says their health is good:
be saw q great many who had from two
10 three hundred dollars in the bank, and
their children all attending the best
schools in the country, all satisfied and
doing well, save few loafeTs, and the
most Of those have returned TO the flesh
pots of Egypt. Let them 60. But we
again say TO our oppressed and loyal
friends in North Carolina and other ku
Klux Southern States. if you would be
free, 60 to Indiana, where you can make
decent living for yourselves and family,
and educate your children. There is
room enough for twenty thousand fami-
lies; they are going from the South
sooner or later; we believe they
will all 20; don't wait to see
what will turn up. but hitch up
your mule if you have one, or anything
else that can draw 8 wagon, and start at
once. The Southern Ku Klux and bull
dozers are talking of running JEFF Davis
for President in 1884. Will you wait to
see the consequences? That rebel ele-
ment and Ku Klux spirit Of 1851 are
still alive in the South; go West and
grow up with the country and an intelli-
gent people who are friendly to you and
our national government We do not
know how soon another rebellion may
spriDg up. Should such thing occur
(which is not at all unlikely, We would
certslnlv be grieved to find 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.
We do not believe that there is a col
ored man of ordinary intelligence any
where in the South, who will not see at
once through the transparent falsehoods
contained IN this extract. We know
that those negroes who left the South
one year ago for Kansas must
have suffered greatly, because appeals
have been made from several counties
Of that State for help for destitute and
suffering whites long time residents
there. It does not stand to reason. there
fore, that negroes who left their old
homes to become utter strangers in
strange land, where the climate was en-
tirely uncongenial, and where. in their
helpless ignorance. they were in SPLEEN
did condition to become victims OF
cute Yankee sharpers, could posi-
bly, alone have escaped the gen-
eral suffering. Besides this, We
know that not only in Kansas, but
throughout the West. including Indiana.
to which state such isttering allusion is
made in this circular. the present winter
has been unusually severe, and that it is
simply impossible for settlers Of only
one year-and most of them without
money or other means Of subsistence
to have done well, lived happily. educated
their children aud laid up money in
bank besides. These statements are false
en- their face, but when Messrs. Perry and
Williams say further that any Southern
men, "bulldozers, KuKlux, or any 9th
er class, real or imaginary, propose run
ming JEFF. Davis for President in 1884, +"
or melting another rebellion" they
simply state what they know to be, and
what every person. North or South, not
an idiot, lunatic or child, knows to be,
plain, unvarnished, foundationless false
hoods.
We have frequently warned our negro
citizens against al such impostors, and
now do so again. We believe they are
nothing more nor less than constituencies
knaves attempting to gain precarious
subsistence by traffic in human life. II
the blacks choose to emigrate, they have
perfect right to do so. and make the ex-
pertinent for themselves, but it is great
pity that men who deliberately take sd-
vantage of the ignorance and credulity
of colored citizens of the South to lure
them to their graves for consideration,
cannot be made 10 suffer the penalty Of
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