The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-13
EMIGRATION TO LIBERIA,

Ex-senator Bruce on the Movement
among Southern Colored People.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 12.-The Star pub
fishes an interview with ex-senator Bruce
Of Mississippi relative to the movement now
on foot to induce the colored people of the
south to emlgrate to Liberia. The ex-sena-
tor condemns the movement utterly, and
predicts its failure just as four previous at
tempts of the same kind have failed. Hesays:
The colored people are not in sympathy
with it. In fact. Bishop H. NJ. Turner, of
the African Methodist church, is the only
prominent man in this country who favors
the scheme and believes that the negro will
only reach his highest development in the
dark continent. The bishop is "A man of
recognized ability and influence, but he has
failed to impress his peculiar views in this
respect upon his race.
NO REASON TO EMIGRATE.
"The black race In this country is not
African except in color; in all elements of
civilized manhood they are American, and
there is no more reason why they should
abandon the land Of their birth and go to
the dark continent because their forefathers
lived there than that the Irish or
the German or any other class Of
our Heterogeneous population should return to
the Old world because their forefath
AlNGu buSEGs On6 III U1UbJ potent dTRur
meats made by the friends of the move
ment is that the conditions of life are easier
in Liberia than in the United States that
vast sums Of money can be realized from
the mahogany trade and from the cultiva-
tion Of cotton and other tropical produc-
tons.
MONOPOLY OF AGRICULTURAL LABOR.
They seem to forget that the negro has
to-day practically monopoly of tae agri-
cultural labor of the south, producing
nearly all the cotton, rice and sugar OF that
section. Ii the progress made by the COL
ored people of the south since their emanci~
patton was less satisfactory colonizationists
might lind some ground upon which to
stand. speak of the south because
fifteenth sixteenth of the colored race reside
south OF Mason aud Dixon's line, and it is
In this section that all the efforts are made
in this direction"
AN AMAZING ADVANCEMENT.
Senator Bruce quoted facts shown by the
recent census to demonstrate his assertion,
that the advancement of the colored race
was simply amazing, and then speaking
particularly of the industrial
growth of the race, he went on to say:
"As slaves, expanding their physical
energies under the direction and for
the benefit of others, thsy produced great
volumes of values and continuously upheld
luuusJTl0S VI OllB o1llT6 beCblOn Oh bQ0
country. AS free men, acting upon their
own Judgment aud sustained by considera-
tons of their own interests, they are pro-
ducing greater results than ever before. The
cotton crop of 1890 was the greatest ever
produced in this country. The crop of 1891
promises to be even larger. Any general
and widespread movement among the popu'
lation would paralyze the industries Of at
least eight great states of this union, and
seriously affect the business Of many
more.
COMPETING WITH WHITE LABoRERs.
Heretofore we have contemplated
the negro simply as field hand,
but under the stimulating influence
of education this state of things Is
Iapidly changing, and he is now pushing
himself into every field of activity, and be-
co ling artisan, mechanic, merchant,
banker, manufacturer, lawyer, doctor.
teacher and preacher. The truth is, the
negro is going into everything that other
Americans engage in"
THEIR ACCUMULATION OF PROPERTY.
Then they must have accumulated con~
siderable property in the south since the
WARP
20, yes" said the ex-senator. "Notwith-
standing the disadvantages under which
they labor, they own more than $4,000, 900
worth Of property in the state OF
Virginia as shown by the eleventh census,
and had the assessments in the states Of
Louisiana, South Carolina, Mississippi and
some Others been kept separate. as was done
IN Virginia, far better showing would
have been made The negro is coming; only