The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-03-13
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sc tHANCE FOR THE NEGRO.

THO Cotton Planters of tho mississippi
81 s:;Ss Want More or Elm.
NEWS ORLEANS La, March 1.-The
fact that the planters Of the delta cotton
belt are sexerting every means to induce
tiiss uaiggationsof ones hundred thousand
5iy snsgsoe 81 sin to- ahiss territory, sand have
sactuali given homes to over thirty
housand swithinSa year, pns a new face
upon the race question. The war cry of
sthe white planters is constantly heard :.
ssssW esWant more niggers r. This state of
affairs covers a vast country, extending
s. from Cairo to ths mouth of the Missis,,
sippi and comprising the richest alluvi-
an Is deposited cotton lands, mostly
u1cnltigatedS Sfor,want of laborers.
e The largest planter in the world is Mr..
Ja1nalesSfs. Richardson, out of whose
leatatess ssof fifty thousand acres. are twenty
thousand devoted TO cotton. Mr. Rich
9 arSls1n stands, at the head of a powerful
scoterie of planters which has been in.
lsssttramantal in causing the recent great
',ss grafton of negroes.
/ hen sifted, itewoulds dsseem that there
::s:is not and never. has been q .scintilla Of
sSpol tics IN these nomadic tendencies of
s:sthe negro. san The whole movement has
zen sgillfnll j engineered by the agents
ssof thss WILSON, family Sof New York,
which largely owns the Louisville, New:
OfIeags and; Texas Railway, and desired
tt6gopsn Is cultivation Che rich Missis.
siippiIs sbo tom lands adjoiniDgit, and by
Ri icha5dson and; his fellow-planters, who
ssshaYes had the choice Of these lands.
s PROFIT ON THE NEGRO.
PParsecntion Of the negro alleged nor
Spa1liti have had no part in it. The
lnstt was purely q business speculation
which, every negro Becured added ex-
$3.50 id cash each year to the plan.
IS IS sEHho gave: him work.
led upon M Richardson for par.
ticulars ana asked him if he employed
SsSsnstor Iltgalls to- sinaugurate race scares
sSfby which negroes were more readily in
:duced :to migrate here. He said :" Any
hing which scares the negro from any
's'ssoshsf section Of, tho country or will en-
s 1915 the agents to induce him to leave
a adI Her States is q; great help sto5 us here.
have taken over thirty Thousand ne
gfdss out of the thin soiled lands of
ssseior ih antf South Caroline, where they
nsmuds shnts and had little TO eat
S sand ia wear. We open to them a land of
lenty, abonnding in Watermelons, pos.
sssapl coons, ducks poultry, bear deer
# and whatever they want to eat. We
sSgiiye them whitawashed house with
"a ass twind lows; something they never
had before, rent free; also wood, water
and ;an.acre Of land. Most of them have
stheiroWn COWS, Ives. mares and poul
ssu sssuiHANGEDsTHE ARoIINAsc COMPLEXION.
ssaW shave salready y made the Carolinas
s:wkit States and are looking anxiously
elsew here to discern other; States which
sidosn not want the negro: We. will take q
6undfed thousand Of him at once. Even
t6enswe will not have enough. We can
Give work to one hundred negroes where
Ne 6fsae enly one now The planter to-
DAY is dependent ON the negro because
lab sol. IS SO scarce. We want an album
dance flabor to make it dependent on
the planter,
Asked Hhat would be done with 80
many negroes MI. Richardson said !:
Between Cairo and New Grleans are
:st honsands Of square miles of .rich soiled
cotton lands covered with forest orin the
band donad state ins which they yswere left
thiss war. at present only about
.tsapeI Cen t, sor: one hundred and fifty
"a thonsa1idl Z acres annually are being
cleared The gsneraisimp provements, so
9 sfsr as they 60, are Is first class, and there
& is not q Niger tramptin the section. 1t
;sstfRyill be! seen that We have snot-labor
81 enough to clear lalds, to. say nothing Of
sWorkiug them after clearing. For clear
Sing Ne sare somewhat dependent on a
lev thousand corn raisers, white men
from n Northern Missouri, who come here
during the cold months, clear what land
ssstheyscsns and go home.
have just paid a bill for the services
81 ofsa gang of thirty. Eve of these men
ssitauounting to 50 GOO, svery penny of
hich they took home with them. This
work might all be done by negroes if We
hads them and could spare them for it.
q They would be useful as cotton growers
sand int ewarm weather, would stay
.shere and keep their earnings in the
s5Ssiate.
THE BLACKS MAKE NO TROUBLE.
he white laborer lives on seventy.
afye cents per week the negro on sixty
eR
cents: Whatever trouble we may have
E;S2sis caused by white labor. The races mix
the siabor: question but a little better
tban they do on the, social one. The
are not adapted to the4soil and
swesdo NOT care for them. The blacks,
men BY themselves, make no trouble.
desire to say that the negroes Of
lississippi, our delta country, are
hssHhy, prosperous and contented.
aThey have the best schools, there being
aa school on every plantation. If the
q other States don't want the negro, they
cannot pack them down here too quick.
We can take care of the blacks and the
...rase question. There is no race question
where negroes have plenty to do. to eat
andsto wear. Wherever the blacks are
S.ggidIe and half starved you may expect to
s;hsYe race troubles. If the government
wants to aid the negro, instead of colo