The Forrest City times., 1890-01-04
NEeno EMIGRATION.

We cannot understand why the plan of oolpnizing the negroes in Africa is not as feasible as 1t is certainly desira- hle. Afraca is today the new land" of the world. Trading companies anal agous to the great East India com pany are securing grants from their governments and taking possession in the name of their sovereigns of vast bodies of territory. Refore the negroes of Africa apparently lies the same fate that has been meted out to the Indian. unless the Africans adaptabiliiy to servitude, which the Indian did not possess, saves him from extinction. The African continent will be a valua- ble one, and we can see no reason why the wllito people of America may not be relieved of an incubus, and the na- tive negro given large and cohesive civilized body of his own race to cen tralize on.-Parls trexas) Daily News.
 The Memphis Commercial, in com menting on the above, argues that ne. g,o labor is indispensable in the South, and for that reason the planters of all the Southern States would oppose any scheme of negro colonization.
 This is great fallacy that the ex- perience of the world for all time has disproved White labor has produced the civilization of Europe. It has built great and ilourishing states out of the wilderness that a few years ago consti- tuted the Northern and Western sec ton of the American union. It has made prosperous dominion in the frozen climate of Canada. and is push ing industry and civilization into the bleak region of the Saskatchewan. It has gone to Africa. to distant Australia and New Zealand, and has nowhere heen barren of results. It can do any thing. What it has accomplished justi- iias unlimited faith in its powers, and it can make great and progressive re- zion of the South. on which the negro is now all incubus, and which his shift less and lazy methods have done avery thing possible to ruin.
 Such a theory is practically disproven. too, by the fact that white labor all over the South is more successful in the production of cotton than negro labor. Hut, conceding that the negro is d good laborer, that is not the question l He is an undesirable citizen. and his habitation of the country on equal terms with the white man produces conflict politically and otherwise that is detrimental, and the only remedy for 1t is race separation.
 Whether or not the African scheme be the proper one, the gradual with drawal of the negroes from the South to some country set aside for their ex- elusive occupation Is every way practi- cal and can be accomplished within the next half century if the government, can be brought to bend it's energies in that direction No oompulsion will te required. The negroes can easily bt indnced to go It would be greatly te theis advantage to go.
 The advantages that a homogeneous white population would be to the Soutl 1 is incalcl,lahle, and the trouble and an noyance that besets it and the danger that threatens it under the present status is something very distressing tt contemplate.
 Race sepaFstion is the policy fot this section. It is the policy that would l best insure tue peace and preservation of the union. and all patriots should advocate it., Birmingham Age Herald