Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-06-29

When the so-called philanthropists OF
the North, some two or three years since,
for political purposes induced large
number of negroes to leave their South.
ern homes and emigrate to the bleak
Northwest, it was generally predicted
that the misguided freedmen would sin
cerely rue their bad bargain, and would
regret the day they had ever listened to
the delusive words Of politicians who
really cared nothing for them, but who
merely wished to do as they had ever
done-assume the guise of friends of the
"poor African" that they might the more
easily mislead him, and make of him a
tool and puppet for advancing the
schemes and purposes of Radicalism.
These predictions have been fully veri-
fed. The negroes who were thus In
duced to leave the homes of their birth
to try their fortunes as strangers in
strange lands are reported to be in the
greatest restitution. So great indeed
are their sufferings that it has become
necessary to institute regular system
of begging for aid to save the poor
creatures from actual death, and we
read that people outside of Kansas
are asked to furnish 100000 or there
abouts wherewith to buy land and build
houses and fences for these unhappy
victims of Radical duplicity and hypoc-
risy. And it seems that upon the sue
cess of these begging missions rests the
fate of the refugees" as they are
termed. If the appeals are granted, the
negroes may live; if not, nothing is left
them but to suffer as best they may, and
meet their fate with what fortitude they
can command. That this last will be
the lot of some, if not a majority, is evil
dent, for it is stated that the applications
in behalf of the sufferers are exciting lit
tie or no enthusiasm.
One cannot keep from feeling sympa-
thy for the poor negroes who have al
lowed themselves to be reduced to this
condition, Tor there is some excuse for
them. Their ignorance and credulity
caused them to believe the stories told
them that Kansas was a land flowing
with mix and honey, an Utopia where
all things needful for life and happiness
might be had for the asking, and where
they could at last enjoy their idea of
freedom-liberty to do as they wished,
work or not as they pleased, and yet
live in peace and plenty. True, it
is passing strange that after their
vast experience with their Northern
philanthropic (0 allies-who have always
used them as hobbies on which to ride
into political power; who promised them
'forty acres and a mule" and yet never
fulfilled their word, who robbed
them through the medium of the Freed
mans Savings Bank, and who, in short,
seem never to weary of misleading and
deceiving them they should have again
become such ready dupes. Still, as we
have said, they are, as rule, credulous,
thoughtless race, easily imposed upon,
and for that reason their unhappy lot nat
urally excites commiseratlOn. But what
must be said of those who, for political
purposes, and to create a false impress
sion as to the misery, oppression and
unhappiness of the blacks in the South,
deliberately lured them away from home
to poverty, distress and restitution.
Such as these are only entitled to be held
in universal execration, and upon their
heads will rest the blood of each and all
their victims whose deaths from suffer
ing or starvation may occur as the result
of having too credulously listened to the
falsehoods poured into their ears with
the sole object in view of exciting sec
tional prejudice and maligning the
Southern people.