Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-01-12
Negro Emigration.
NatChez Democrat.


one million negroes to whom free
transportation should be furnished
aid homesteads granted, to be judi
ciously distributed in Indiana, Illi-
nois, Kansas and other Western
States. He says:
"The amount of money proposed
to be appropriated by the Blair
educational bill and that Of the
Freedman's Bank, had btteer be
diverted to aid in distributing large
portion Of the negroes from the
South"
I here are several very serious OBJ
jections to this scheme, two of
which will suffice for our purpose,
and which we do not urge out Of
unfriendliness to any plan which
Mr.. Menard might suggest for the
betterment of his race.
First, in the present condition of
the South, the exodus Of the negro
would be disastrous in the extreme
to our agricultural and commercial
interests, reducing the receipts of
production and the output of labor
to ruinous extent until a new and
better class of labor could be sup
piled.
Right here arises the question, is
there any labor better fitted for our
climate, and fields than the negro
Is there anywhere on earth a more
docile and confding people? 1t is
true that they are ignorant and
thriftless, but when organized and
properly controlled the negro will
work we'll, and is more subordinate
than any other.
In support Of the argument that
the negro is indispensable as q
laborer in the South, we have only
to refer to the Kansas exodus a few
years ago, which although limited in
degree, was looked upon as a detri-
mental occurance to the South, and
was strongly resisted in sentiment,
by the whites.
We claim, then, that until, by
white immigration, the South is sup
piled with a labor which could be
substituted for the negro the latter is
needed here on a soil and in eli
mate nature has adapted him to.
Even then, we believe he will be q
more useful and producing factor
under the example and in competi-
ton with the white laborer, the rule
of necessity, working a desirable
change from indolenoe TO industry,
poverty to thrift.
Second, the States mentioned
above would under no circumstances
consent to any plan involving the
permanent settlement of any large
number of negroes within their
borders, but on the other hand
would resist it to bitter end.
The negro would fare very poorly
should he emigrate in large numbers
TO the North, and would find a re-
sistance not unlike that experienced
by the Ceinese on the Pacific slope.
Even now all through the North
where a few have found n foot-hold
he is crowded out and lelegated "a
the lowest order of work. The
doors of commerce are closed to
him; he is hustled out Of the facto-
ries and workshops and is socially
ostracized as an inferior; be is
ordered out of towns in the great
State of Ohio and he who runs NAV
read, that the North with all its
pity, all its expressed sentimentality
for the negro and his condition,
given at arms length, demands OF
the white people Of the South an
association and treatment which il
will in no wise grant.
BY the decree Of the Almighty,
the negro has been located in the
South and under the process OF
slavery has become the ward of the
Southern white man who is his
friend and guide, trust which he is
well fitted tn, and willing to dis
charge.
The negro is working out his own
destiny which is assured to a better
end in the South, where he is under
stood, than it could be anywhere
else.
All that is needed is that he should
be let alone in working out this
destiny and not be made the subject
Of a false and hypocritical philan-
throphy and his so-called cause,
which ia a cbimera converted into