The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-03-18
MEMPHIS APPEAL.
THURSDAY, MARCH IS, 1856
THE NEGRO IN CALIFORNIA,

The people Of California have sworn
in their hearts that the Chinese must
20. They cannot and will not endure
much longer a pestiierous and intol-
cradle curse which they demonstrate is
a blight upon the state. They are
holding public meetings and appeal
ing to Congress for protection, and
boldly proclaim that self'defense, tie
first law OF nature, will impel them
10 take decisive measures for the ex.
pulsion OF the Asiatic curse, unless
Congress Immediately enacts law to
prevent the open or secret influx OF
the common enemy whose presence
is menace to society and destructive
Of the best interests o! the people,
dangerous 10 their domestic peace and
fatal to every industry. 1t is evident
that the people Of California are
standing over a fearful vo'Csn no which
will explo le sooner or later. They
take the position that So
ciety is invested by natural
laws with the inalienable right
Of expelling whatever is dangerous or
fatal 10 its peace ard prosperity, and
as theChinese have infected the whole
Stats with 6 deadly plague.
There lie, they say, no law,
human or divine, which COM
pels a people TO tolerate an element
for lis own destruction, and unless
something be done by Congress TO
protect the people from an enemy
more terrible than an trmy
with banners, there will, they
threaten, be an uprising f the
people aud the CAinese will be muir.
dered by the light Of their own filthy
deng. The San Francisco Examiner
proposes to solve the labor problem in
California by substituting negro labor
for the Chinese labor, which the peo.
pie are determined 10 drive from the
State. The Examiner says:
The announcement that delegation of
colored men are in New York to make ar
rangem nts for an immigration of coiorod
people from Louisiana 20 California will be
received with pleasure throughout the State.
IL may be medium through which we may
solve our, labor difficulties, There Is no
fhaN h. GO. Nk.r N,N. ..al
to send us an important element Of labor,
and II is equally true that no gift could be
made whic1 would DO so highly appreciated
In California. To exchange Chinese labor
for the intelligent and docie industry OF the
negro would be an event Of the very last i'm
pOriance of the people Of this coast. The
ready and convenient avenue of domestic
service could be filed at once. The problem
to The, fruit -growers. would be solved, md the
varied and comprehensive details which are
usually so difficult Of solution, whom one
kind Of service Is TO be supplanted by an
other, would be settled at once Nothing
could happen TO the people Of California 50
beneficial and significant, ut the present time
as large negro immigration from the
South. 1t would indeed supply long-telt
want.
The negro race is rapidly increasing,
and unless dispersed the colored pop
ulation Of the South will become too
dense to prosper. The negro can find
ample room in the South for the next
century, aud he is to- p,or to engage
in hazardous experiments. He is ig-
norant, superstitious, credulous, and
is continually discovering some new
Eldoredo, into which they pour in
constant stream. But they gradually
reCurn to the South, which they never
loved or appreciated until they had
learned its value in the hard school Of
adversely. Except in a few localities,
where there are abnormal causes, the
relations between the whites and
blacks are most amicabe. The colored
people have discovered that freedom
means work, and they are accumulat-
ing property and educating their
children. The whites and blacks Of
the South have made virtue Of ne
cessity and surmounted their preju-
dices, and now regard their interests
as identical. The industrious colored
people are prosperous and happy. 1t
is only the indolent that engage in
rash and visionary aiventures-such
as emigrating to Kansas and Califor-
mia, among strangers and without
money,