The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-04-02

| 1otal Wnlte school population of
Jefferson county from 1878 up to 1884
amounts to 60l7; total negro enroll
ment Tor the same years, 20, 1873, or 49,
ZIG more negroes than whites. Total
white sschool population of Desha
county from 1880 to 1884 amounts to
1875; total negro school population
amounts to 1897, or an increase over
the whites OF 1922. The total increase
in school population of the negroes
over the whites in the two counties
Tor the years aforesaid is 1908.
AS before stated this is safe index
OF the Increase in Arkansas, Lincoln
and Chicot counties.
Now, since these figures have been
filed two years ago at the State Capitol,
the increaee has been larger. / know
OF over two hundred negroes who
have been brought Into Jefferson
county within the last twelve months.
1.-THE record was generally and carefully
taken throughout the county, the new.
corners among the negro population,
as voters, would amount to 500. A
negro emigration agent from South
Carolina was here not many weeks
ago, who said that he placed this sea
son over 300 families of negroes from
the Carolinas in these bottoms, and
that next year he would come with
5000 more.
Now, If the above statistics are not
sufficient to appall the heart of a vir.
tuous and Notwithstanding white
man, then "airs from heaven or blasts
from hell' would not intimidate him.
The fact is, our people are not con-
sclous OF their own situation, andthey
never pause to think about the sub
iect. Negro labor furnishes large
area for speculation, and in the greed
for acquisition the palesface never
stops to think of the future. or To
forecast the inevitable and the ire
pressibe. And just here permit me to
remark that it is all we'll enough for
men who know little ofthe negro, who
never see him or deal with him in the
country, or in his aggressiveness, to
denounce the lierceness of those who
after long submission to oppresivness
and known barbaric natures, and
whose lives and whose homes are as
those upon the confines of civiliza-
ton, it is well enough for denuncia-
tons to fall upon these men when
they see no remedy at law, but take
the matter in their own hands, be-
cause, those who speak thus of them,
know little OF the great causes and
springs to action that lie within.
These things are likely to occur at any
time where the domination of the ne
gro becomes intolerable. For ex-
ample, the balance of power in the
municipality of Pine Bluff has been
held by negro for ten years, and no
act of legislation occurs without his
sanction, although the whites have
majority in the board. He holds the
balance of power in this county and
he wields it over Judge, grand jury
and sheriff, lawyers and all. He can
defy Indictment by any grand Jury,
although the Prsss-E Eagle of our town,
over year ago, succeeded in expos
ing his malfeasance in office. am
told, too, that he is on the bond of
nearly two-thirds Of the men who are
arraigned for violating the law in this
county. These things are grow.
ing worse, and what the end
is to be, | tremble to conjec-
ture. The white politicians and
currying tradesmen, and the two-bit
lawyers, are pushing on the negro
TO a prominence whose summit will
prove the accursedness of Anglo
Saxon folly. The everlasting DISPOSE
ton to prove to the abominable negro
philists of the North that the negro
is pabulum very acceptable
at all times TO Southern outlets, like
wise urges many whites to the verge
of an equality that is disgusting. They
may think the line of demarcation is
ready, at command, to individualizc
itself, but il will be too late TO seek to
establish the boundary when our own
feet have oblitcrated it by tramping
across II financially, politically or re-
ligiously, with the pseudo styled
brother-in-black. The white man, the
Southern white man, must find his
ultimate home and salvation in the
Atlantic and Golf Sta es, and in the
bottoms OF the Arkansas and Missis-
sippi will be the home Of the negro.
Keep mp the bulwarks in those States.
EOT TOuN