The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-18
EMIGRATION OF BLACKS.
SENATOR GIBBS AGAINST THE
TAX ON AGENTS


Would be Advantages Growing out
of the Departure Of a Portion OF the
Race-The Marietta and North Geor-
gia Right To Extend.
ATLANTA, Ga, Sept 1.-THE feature
OF this mornings session of the Senate was
Senator Gibbs speech against the adoption
OF the committee report adverse to the
passage OF his bill to remove the tax on
emigrant agents. The law as it now stands
imposes tax of $500 for each county. The
practical effect of this is to prohibit the
operation Of such agents in the state. Mr..
Gibbs claimed that if the agents admitted
only vagabonds the educated negro popuIas
uon would emigrate and the state be better
without them. He denied that the
state is dependent on the negro
labor The free negro was worthless as
laborer. History furnishes no case to
suggest a possible exception to the rule.
When emancipated he became useless and
dominant. He has lapsed into barbarous
voudooism. Liberty county had illustrated
TINS phase OF his charac or, with its King
Solomons and Queen Marys and heathen
worship OF kind to put the say ges them
selves TO tho blash. Figures could shown
20 sustain the position that freedom had
destroyed the negro's usefulness. Notwith-
standing the great increase in the blacks
since the war the production I'd In Georgia
suffered loss # nearly half This denoted
the great Generalization which had over
taken negro labor and the enormous class
OF Yagabond negroes whose presence in
the state was continual menace to prop
erty, to peace and to virtue. 1t was highly
necessary TO get rid of this dangerous
criminal element.
LIVES OF SOUTHERN WOMEN.
The lives of southern women were ac-
tually circumscribed and bound in for fear
of outrage at the hands of these scoundrsls.
and unless something should be done to re-
lleve the strain which owed its existence to
the presence OF these wretches the time
would come, and that before long, when the
white people of the sc te wouli rise as one
man and demand emigration or extermina-
ton. IL had only been short time since one
or the villains having suffered as he de-
served at East Point. The negroes
had formed a plot TO burn the town
ID kill the citizens Nothing was iald
about that, but as soon as the whites rose
TO defend themselves and castigated some
OF the plotters he cry Of ''outrags''was heard
from one end OF tie land TO the other. He
cared not what course the courts might
take, 1t did not matter to him what resolu-
tions might be passed by this legis ature,
when the white men struck for home and
tireside he was with tlem.
APPROVES THE ACT.
Not a negro had been whipped at East
Point who was not u leader ia or an insti-
gator of that foul plot, and he here pro-
claimed his approval OF what the whites
had done. The time had come when the
whites must stand up and defend themselves
and their families. Tlere was not room in
this country for both the negro and the
yankee. Vast sums bad been expended to
educate the negroes, who had never and
would never do the state the least good, but
VINO were; on the contrary, always ready at
the call of tho carpet-bagger
and his base southern ally TO do
her all the harm in their power. 1t was
the educated negroes who would emigrate.
The governor of North Carolina had de-
clared that the negro was not wanted in his
state, and that every facility should be
given him to get out of it. Mr.. Hampton
OF South Carolina had said the negro was
not needed there Senator Fitzgerald
thought the vagabond class referred to
would be the last to leave. While the rela-
tions between tho races we're altogether as
harmonious as could be desired, the south
ern planter had never had nor would
he have labor so good as the negro
labor. Senator Sanford thought that social
equity was more likely to be brought about
by distributing the negroes than in any other
way. He thought on the southern planta-
tion there was no substitute for the negro
and the mule.
Senator Bradwell wanted the tax repealed
on free trade principles. Toe ayes and nays
were taken on the vote to disagree to the
report OF the committee. 1t resulted-ayes
10, nays 10.
President DuBignon voted mo" and the
bill was lost.