Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-01-03

1eV' have been ready 10 ienuNa VII
ling ear to the e-colored stories told
them by immigration agents regarding
the magnificent prospects offered them
in Arkansas, and they propose to try
their fortunes in that Western cotton
State.
This move may inconvenience the
planters of the section immediately af-
fected by the exodus for a season, and
doubtless will, yet it will, we are con
strained to believe, in the end, prove,
both politically and socislly, advanta
geous. There is no disputing the fact
that the negro element in our sister State
is too largely predominant, and calcu-
lated to interfere with the prosperity Of
both races It affords a constant ele-
ment of political discord in the State,
because of the fact that Northern fac
tionists are ever alert to excite passion
and prejudice among the negroes against
the whites whenever, by so doing, an
opportunity presents itself to make pc
litical capital for the Republican party.
For this reason, so long as the negroes
form so vast proportion Of the pOpu-
latiOn of any State, as they do in South
Carolina, so long will that State be the
scene of turmoil and confusion, and its
material progress be interfered with
Therefore it is reasonable to infer that
in proportion as the diseordant element
is reduced, will the political prosperity Of
the State be enhanced.
Socially, the advantages to result from
the exodus will be equally great. Wher-
ever a large number Of negroes are col
lected together experience proves that
there may always be found among them
a very large proportion of thriftless crea-
lures. averse to work, and living from day
to day only upon what they may be able
to 'pick up" Such as these are drones
upon the body polite who never domore
labor than they are forced to do, and
who are literally burdens upon any COM
munity. 1t will be chiefly among this
thriftless class that the arguments of the
emigration agents will find favor, for
those who are industrious and have Sc
Cared l1rles and farms for themselves
ov their ,fri lift, will prefer to remain an
chWel Enlre they have found a refuge
md q f91shold rather than to risk pre-.
cariOus velihoOds in lands of which
they SIRE comparatively ignorant. The
result of e exodus, therefore, will be
mainly to take off the worth
less chaff of the colored race, while the
solid grains of wheat will remain behind,
and thus society at large will be beue-
flied. and both races, white and black,
will be profted. And, beside this,
should the exodus cause, in the immedi-
ate district affected thereby, a dearth of
labor, not only will the white popula-
ton put their hands more zealously to
the plough, but industrious white labor
from other sections will be attracted,
and, in the end, thrifty class of sub
stantial workers will take the place Of
the Disconnected idlers.
For these reasons, therefore, we are
inclined to look favorably upon the exc
dus, which seems to have caused con
siderable excitement in South Carolina.
We agree with our contemporary, the
Columbia Register, that South Carolina
is ''too topsided on the black question,
and it will be better for all concerned
&C ratio of blacks to whites in our
1sASld be more nearly equal