The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1889-04-04
THE NEGRO EXODUS.
THE MEANING AND RESULTS OF
THE MOVEMENT

THE MOVEMENT.
Is 1t Political Scheme or Not ?-An
Interesting Article on the Subject
From the Wilmington Star.
The negro exodus promises to reach
very large proportions in North Car
olina. The Star has expressed Its
opinion that the negroes are free to
go aad no obstacles should be put in
the way of their departure. Where
they have entered into contracts for
given time if possible they should be
prevented from breaking them. But
after all, is it not safer to let even this
class go? Will not those negroes who
have no sense of obligation prove a
dangerous class if interfered with in
their purposes to emi CRATE? You can
not reasonswith such creatures for not
many of them are open to the appeals
that are intended for the understand
ing and not for superstition and pre-
judice. 1t is perhaps good radiance
to let the disturbed element have an
escape. Operated upon by designing
men ard allured by promises that are
absurd and baseless they move away
and nothing in the way of candid
statement or argument will reach
them. So let all go who will.
There is one mistake that white
men make just here. They are
wrong in thinking that the white
race can ever be dependent upon the
colored race for anything. There are
millions of white laborers awaiting to
be asked to come and work our fields
and in our factories. Do not think
that North Carolina will become
vas. bowling wilderness if Sambo
and Nose and Cuffy should go away
forever. The highest and most cul.
tivated intellect in the State is in no
sense necessity to the progress and
happiness of the State. AS soon as
the grave closes the world moves on,
business continues, other toilers and
factors come to the front, and you
are feign to think that no man is i'm
portant in this world, whether Kaiser
or peasant, President or postmaster.
If every negro in the State should
leave in five years you would hardly
realize that they were ever here. The
whites must learn to do for themselves
learn to labor aud to wait. Other
labor will quickly come in when the
black labor is gone.
Do not understand US to be in sny
way inimical to the negroes. We
know them, and in some respects they
are desirable labor. We are used to
them, and know how to deal with
them. They are not the best workers,
but they fill a serviceable end fairly
we'll, and if they are contented it
would be best, we suppose. to have
them to remain. But they will not be
worth much as laborers so long as they
are restive and their heads are filled
with great promises never to be real
lied and the reddest picture Of life
somewhere else placed before their
eyes.
The strangest feature Of this new
exodus fever that promises to be filled
with great results, is the State selected
whence to carry the negroes and the
| negroes and the Southern State select
ed whittier to take them. Of all the
States, with perhaps the single excep
ton Of Virginia, this State is the one
in which the negro has the most lib
erty, his personal and political rights
are most protected, and where he is al
liberty to work out his own destiny
under free and equal laws. There il
no bulldozing of negro voters in Nortl
Carolina We believe that in all tn
State last year there was scarcely on
negro elector who was interfered with
Bribery is not common and bull
doing is not practiced. The negroe
vote free and unmolested. AS We
therei is no educational and no propert
test. He not only votes, but Samb
now and then slips in two votes whe
he can catch the whites mapping.
Why remove the negroes, or an
part of them from the State where h
} is best protected and where he ca
vote without restraint? Why tax
them to Arkansas? In that State b
will have fewer rights and is sure t
have many serious collisions and ths
too where human life is held to b
somewhat cheaper than in North Ca
olina or Virginia? IF the whites i
Arkansas shall find it necessary ft
THAR own safety and preservation !
adopt the Australian system they wi
10 it quickly and enforce it to the le
ter and at the point of the pistol. !
Arkansas there have been some war;
times between the races already, an
other conflicts are ahead. -
How will the Arkansas whites re
ish the influx of hundred or tw
hundred thousand negroes, or eve
more if the big plans can be carrie
3 out Will they allow their State to
Africanized and then civilization
take wings? Will they stand the
: ground and fight it out to the bitt,
end, or pack up and go where tt
!. Aryan race lives unspotted from Il
. taint of negrodom ? What ,oiN be tt
, issue?
A last thought. Is this a cunnir
movement on the part of the Northel
Radicals to capture two Southel
: States? Is this dodge to reno,
the Negro from North Carolina,
vide the whites and turn the Sta
, over to Radicalism and Monopoly
Ia this the game 7 They will be di
appointed, for the whites are not pr
pared to accept the most immoral al
t unrighteous of all political or econor
ical principles that it is right to ts
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