The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-01-12
THE CAROLINA EXODUS.
News and Comment About tho Negro
Hegira.
Correspondence ofhe Neus and Courier

correspondence OF The Nctcs aud Courier.
SUMTER COUNTY, S. c., January 2.
There is great unrest among the ne
groes, and at least Eve hundred familie,
're preparing to leave the county in the
early spring. The farming interests arr
greatly imperilled. The complaint is
High rents, High taxes, the Stock and
Election laws.
DISTRESS IN THE COUNTY.
A meeting was held ct Meohanicsville
on December 20 10 receive and act upon
the report of the committee which had
been appointed Ct tho prior meeting
held on December 22d, "to devise ways
and means by which supplies may BE-
obtained the coming year." Tie meet.
ing was called to order by Trial Justice
Frazer j. w. Wesberry acting as sec.e.
tary. The committee presented TO the
meeting preamble and petition, pray.
ing the Legislature to take action. After
discussion by Trial Justice Fraser. Isaac
Mclaughlin, J. w. Wesberry. Cant.
Williamson and DR.. II. d. Green. the
said preamble and petition was unani.
mously adopted. A committee was then
chosen to present tho papers to the Leg.
islature.
The Sumter IFatchman learns that the
preamble aud petition referred 10 in the
report of the meeting is an appeal to the
Legislature for the relief of the destitu.
tion in that section, caused by the failure
OF the last crops. 1t Gays: We are forced
to regard tho movement as unwise
We have no idea that starvation is 80
general or imminent as to REQUIRE
legislative interference. Though there
may DO considerable pressure for money.
ana tho outlook seems gloomy enough,
ana even real want may Invade the
homes OF few, we are satisfied that the
pest course to pursue is to meet those
uals. If their sufferings are in apy
exaggerated, the people of those town.
ships have done themselves q great ipius.
tice; for by these movements thew not
only reduce their credit and reflect upon
the resources of our county, but they
place themselves In nm attitude which Is
incompatible with that pride and indie.
pendenco which is as essential to the
prosperity of communities as it In of
individuals.
From. the augusta Neus.
A long letter written from Trenton to
the NeCs and Courier. giving an account
OF the negro exodus from Edgefield, was
written by some one who is evidently
fully acquainted with the facts. The
reason set forth and the deductions
drawn frc n this movement are cogent
and well-timed, and although coming
rather too late to mend matters. wifi
serve to warn the planters in other nor.
tions of that State not to kill the poose
that lays the golden egg.
From The Washington Post.
Some of our South Carolina contempo.
raries are needlessly alarmed, so we
think, over the commencement of n
negro exodus from certain portions of
tina: State, the extent of which they pro.
fess their inability to foresee. lhe aver.
age. negro laborer is liable to become
restless if his earnings ct the end of the
year do not seem to be just what thev
ought, and to feel that change only is
necessary to improve his condition.
Sudden movements of any considerable
body of working men and women will
cause temporary Inconvenience to those
IN need OF hands, but 1t cannot be pro.
ionged. The idea that none but negro
labor could raise cotton has happily been
exploded by the actual experience of the
last fifteen years, and there is no reason @
why white men should not take and
more than fill the places made vacant bv
any removal Of negroes that NAV happen.
In view of the political perplexities
which South Carolians are constantly
encountering, brought about by the pres.
ence of 80 large a bcdy of ignorant
voters, it would seem rs if the State
could vel! spare quite percentage of
that class Of citizens, and look to ths
chances of supplying the vacuum with
immigrants of another character. M
Southern State will suffer eventually
from emigration Of her colored popula.
ton.
From the RhRadeiphia Times.
If there is just cause for the discou.
tent shown by the colOred race in por-
tlons of tine South it is the result fcondi-
tons which are not only not approved nor
sought to be pcrpetuated by the eulight.
ened and progressive elements of the
Southern whites, but which are clearly
recognized, condemned and systematical.
ly reformed wherever they can be reach.
ed and dealt with. Bishop Warren. who
addressed the colored people at the
Atlanta exhibition ON "Freedman's
Day." December 29th, boasted that the
colored schools were among the best in
Atlanta and that whites and bIacks
stood on an equal footing as to advanta.
| ges tor future progress. He added that
the school which is doing most in that
city to develop the industrial aptitude 40
we'll as the mental character of it's stu.
dents is colored college. Mr.. Pledger.
the colored editor Of the journal Of Pro.
gress, claimed with evident sincerity and
pride that in the more progressive sec.
tions of the South the negro is "side by
side in the race for life with the ex-mas.
ter, with the jealousies of the past 80
far removed that he feels at home and
among friends. In the purely agricultu.
raj districts the negroes will gradu.
ally learn the limitations of their rights
and the employers will find out that
permanent content among the laborers,
or ."hc::: .aoy arc gu entirely dependent
can only be secured by right fair dealing.
Ignorance on one side and love os gain
on the other complicate the labor prob.
lem at the South, and the beat men re.
cognize this condition of things, and ara
fighting it, with every prospect of swift
reform.
A SOFT ANswER.-"Can see the Ia.
dy of the house ?' inquired the peddler.
"Well. yes, you can if you amt blind P''
snapped the woman who had anawered
the bell.
"Oh, beg pardon, madam; you are the
lady of the house. then?"
eyes I am IVbok d,uar toi,.. 49,. e.. O