News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-04-15

the last breakfast table letter of thu
National Republican to the President
and we feel that we confer a favol
upon your readers in giving it entire
The facts and figures are suggestive
and must carry conviction to the
minds of all:
"For the promotion of the general
welfare, your attention is invited, a:
question of practical craftsmanship
to the distribution of the colored pop
ulation over the area of the United
Statea.
1t appears by the census of 1885,
that the State of Alabama had col
ored population of 6OO,249; Georgia
724, $3.50; Louisiana, 4S3, 1914; Mis-
sissippi, 650,337; North Carolina
531,251; South Carolina, 604,215
Tennessee, 4O2, 1891 Texas, 394,001
Virginia, 631, 754. These nine State:
aggregate a colored population o.
5,023,397 out of total population ii
all the States and Territories OF
6,5S7,347.
'sIn the State of Alabama the white
population exceeds the colored about
1000, Georgia about 10000, North
Carolina about $50, 900, Tennessee
10000, Texas 100000, and Virgin
ia 100000, while in the State of
Louisiana the colored exceeds the
white about 10000, in Mississippi
100000, and in South Carolina about
100000, showing three States that
aggregate a colored population of
41O, 900 in excess of the white popu-
lation in those States.
"The suppression of the vote of COL
ored men by fraud, intimidation and
murder, is practiced In the States
where the largest proportion of the
colored population to the white popu-
lation reside.
sit is therefore proposed by the pat
riotic people of the north and south to
remedy the evils stated, to remove
any foundation for fear on the part of
the whites, any excuse for any politi-
cal issue between races, that wiser
distribution of the colored population
be at once inaugurated.
1.-TWO currents of emigration and
immigration should be organized, one
from Europe into the Southern States
and one of colored people from tn e
States where they are nearly equal,
or exceed the whites, to States in
friendly ATTITUDES, where they would
bear but a small proportion to the
white population.
"The removal of 500,0 from the
States of Louisiana, Mississippi and
South Carolina would place the whites
IN the ascendency; the turning of
European emigration to those States
would increase the ascendency. Thus
he process could go on year after
iear, that would place the white pop
llation in such numerical majority as
would wipe out all fear of negro dom
nation in local or State affairs, and
'estore the national government TO
he keeping of the party that repre-
'ents a majority of the people.
ga study ofthis plan, it i. believed,
will convince the people of its FEAST
oiity. 1t would increase the colored
peoples opportunities for education,
md confer the benefits of a just COM
'ensation for their daily labor. 1t
would stimulate them to become own
RS of the soil, and thereby, as tax
payers, become sharers in the expen-
les of the government where they re-
tide. 1t would give them protection
n the use of the right of franchise
political power necessary to secure
,ivil rights. Their labor would be
he labor of freemen, intelligent labor,
Ind not, as now, of a servile class,
lpon the soil of a republic, reproach
lpon the foundation principle which
'ur fathers declared-that all men
we're created free and equal.
"What an example we could set the
world by such a redistribution of the
,olored people in this country A
from you, Mr.. President, to
the Congress of the United States
recommending the appropriation of
money in aid of this benifcent under
taking to promote the general well
fare, would touch the heart and mind
Of the American people like some
Thing akin to the Emancipation Proc
amation of Abraham Lincoln. The
civilized world would commend the
act as one of profound craftsmanship,
md the prayers of millions would as
END to heaven, invoking blessings
lpon your name. Then a new south
would awaken as from a dream capt.
al and skilled labor would flow in
rom all quarters upon it, with full
in the protection of life and |
property. The owners of her soil,
er mines and her waterways would
lie in wealth and prosperity with the
eople of the most favored sections of
be world.
"Mr. President, you may have the
'lsdom and the courage to patriot
'ally meet this most important epoch
the history of our country and your
administration, all other questions as
ompared with which sink into insig-