Nevada County picayune., 1889-10-16

numDer or persons or NOrtnern hlrJn in the sixteen Southern States in- creased from 1870 to 1880 only 2Si.. GOO, of which over 200,00 are to he found Tn Texas and Missouri alone. On the other hand, is is shown that in the ten years there was an increase of only 23,00O among the negroes who left the Southern States and went into the Northern States. Each race stands to itself The negro re- mains in the South where there are negroes, the white race naturally avoids the South because the negroes are here.
 The author then shows that the prejudice against the negro is as vivid in the North as ia the South. The testimony on this point covers several pages and is startling. 1t shows that wherever the negro is brought in contact with the white race in the North except in the most menial condition that he is at once met with uncompromsing hostility.
 He shows that none of the trades in the North are open to the negro, that landlords will not rent to colored people, and that the idea in the North is as much against the negro as'in the South-the only difference being that there is not so much contact in the North as in the South, and hence not so much friction.
 He says: "The whites and blacks of the South are absolutely separated in every relation of life which would require them to meet under even the semblance of equality. The white and black youths are further apart than their parents. The younger and succeeding generations will hold still less in common. The manifest tendency of the two peoples every where is to drift farther away from each other. There is not single bond to counteract this tendency. There are ten thousand strong forces in ceaseless operation to confirm and promote it. Assuredly there is noth- ing in the conduct and disposition of the Southern whites to encourage the slightest hope that they will change their conduct. or their disposition. toward their black neighbors; and assuredly those on the other hand can neither compel or induce such q change"
 The writer then considers how this problem was thrust upon America.
 He says: "The negro was a slave before the Southern planter bought him from the Northern shipmasters. He was slave before he was bought by the shipmaster from his slave masters in Africa. He was brought here for sale as slave. The slave yoke has been so long and so gener- ally imposed on him that it suggests d worldwide and abiding recognition of something in his nature to invite the treatment he has received Sub iugation seems to be his second na- ture, if not his first and his alone. He was brought here to be slave because he was known to possess the qualities that fitted him for slavery-Heaven help him. And the men who enslaved him, who wounded and bound him, who tore him from his miserable home and sold him to the white man, were men of his own color, and blood, and race. Deep indeed must be the slave instinct in the savage even, who could sink so low-and stay down so long-to per init him to practice and profit by a degrading traffic in his own flesh. The curse is in the bone. The slave trade still thrives in Africa, though it has been abolished from every other land"
 The author then holds that the so- lution of the problem is to remove the negro from American soil. He goes on to show that he must be re- moved as the Chinese were excluded, or that he will be fought down as the Indians and exterminated. He should not be sent away empty handed. The author contends that he should be provided with his pass age to new country, with a home, and with a years support in that country, wherever it may be.
 The immense number of negroes, nearly 5000, ,000, the first difficulty is transportation, with which the au- thor deals. He shows that from 1880 to 1887, 4,500, ,000 immigrants were brought into the United States and