The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1889-04-03
THE NEGRO EXODUS.
HISTORY REPEATING IT.
SELF.
The Negro Its Steadily Immi-
grated from the Northern
States to the Southern

to tire lightly the inordinate exodus
Of negroes from North Carolina, yet
we have never held any other opinion
than that tn, migr ltiols Of white
races will always be to cold and
temperate climes; and the migration
Of colorel races to warm aud hot
climes 1t has always been so from
earliest times, and We bel eve always
will be.
The negro has steadily migrate
from the Northern States to t.,
Southern. Even in the days of e.
African slave trade, the Northerners
were slave dealers rather than slave
drivers aud owners. The negro was
not adapted to their climate. So
the negro has been steadily emigrat-
lug southwark and will continue to
10 so. Thus they landed to the
line Of the Louisiana purchase and
the Red mans home.
BY the Louisiana purchase and the
removal of the Indians to the In-
liam Territory. the whole lower,
warm. aul fertile valley OF the
Mississippi WAS opened, and there
was an exodus of the negroes to
those warm and fertile lands that
almust threatened to depopulate the
.jorler States. Slaves that had
been worth on an average $4,000,
suddenly rose to fabulous prices.
averaging 81. 900 90 each, and Rich
mond, with its immense warehouse
iails, became the greatest slavei
market in world for the sale of
Border State slaves. vet for a time
vas rivalled by the city of Wash
ington. the Capitol Of the Nation.
While Clay. Webster, and Calhoun,
the great American trio and their
eompeers were holding high debate,
just one square from the Capitol, the
ceaseless chin-work Of the slave
auctioneer weat on, and the word,
gone sent a slave TO the banks
Of the Mississippi, with the same
nonchalance that a pile of frost
bitten tobacco or the commonest
bubbles and gewgaus Of the street
auctioneer, are knocked down. No
slave remained in the Border States
that could be bought: every neigh
b)rhood, from spring to fall, saw
pitched among them the white tents
of the travelling speculator, horror
10 the slave. In fall when he had
bought all he could, the strange
wired column took up its long
march TO the land Of cotton, the
marvellous valley Of the Mississippi.
The bad negroes, hand-cuif Il in
squads Of four, the good ones M lrch-
ing free, followed by the wagon
train carrying the tents, camp
eluipage, the children aud those not
able to march-Ill IN Iklnga horrid,
sad, unique exodus Of the negroes.
History is repeating itself, except
that slaves are gone and freed and
free men are going. But the IN
eyitable cause is just the same.
When the slave emigrated. fabulous
piles Of money were left behind, now
II ,thing but dismantled farms look
tug for the coming tenants
In the discussions on secession,
the sccesssionists said to the Boz der
States your negroes will not run
away and go North. Thereby was
they are constantly doing 50 by the
underground railroad, which lands
/ them IN Canada, where we have no
help at all. In the Union we have
the protection of the Fugitive Slave
Ltw. S,ccde from the Union aud
the Canada line comes d d,wn to the
Potomac with innumerable under
ground railroad stations. There
would BE- but one inevitable result
the negroes would all have been sold
to extreme ) ,uthern States. II the