The sun., 1892-02-14
Outlook FOR the FUTURE.
0niniuns of Representative Colored
a. Men in Several Localities.
EMIGRATION. Oh AMAlGixATION ?
The Separate Car Law and Other
ttn-'s.e Examples Of Prejudice.

4oiorod people OF this land wero freed from
.slovory and endowed with citizenship Il was
contended then. and is believed yet by tho ma
1crity Of tho people. in tho North at least. that
satisfying future awaited thase people rs q
ffce element In the population OF this country.
Recent legislation in the South. where several
millions OF them I've. aud evonts in the North
AMI South have. however developed the ques-
ton whether free dom is really O succsss with
she negro. Il Is not PROPOSED 20 Jgul here with
,khs much.diScnssed economic phase OF
che matter THIS supreme question to-
DAY is. not what the nation shall do
With the negroos. bu. wha. the negroes shall
90 with themselves. Do they think they are
now on an equality With the white people Of
tbs eonntry2 Do they set their civi rights
aftor these twcnty-iv years OF freedom
What do they look forward to In this country
DO they beltsvs that thcir future lies here?
TnE SuN has asked these questions OF think
ing negroes In various parts West and South.
Their REPLIES are OF unusua al interest.
Tho recent Passage OF separate car laws IN
several Southsrn States IL significant OF the
feeling OF tho whites toward the negro. Tho
laws OF oil except one o. tho Southern States
had forbidden intermurriaCe. Whites and
blacks wer0 provided with separate schools.
The white people insisted that their fellow
Christians OF darker hue should worship God
IN chusches OF their own. Tho unwrittcn Inv
OF the South. setting tho negro to one side in
everything approaching social relation. was
enforced relent!essly. Tho separate car lew.
known coiloquial!y rs the Jim Grow Car
law." Is an Indication that tho lines are CON
tractn9 still further instead Of broadening.
Renders OF the newspapers have not failed
TO note the lynchinss and other deeds OF
violence in the South and West ?n which
the negro has been tho sufferer. nor
have thero been lacking instances in the
North OF a race prejudice on tho part " the
whites. which is surely not in ace ccordance with
che spirit which made the negro free. Maga-
zines and reviews have been crowded with
articles dealing with the negro problem"
written IN 4 spirit which Indicated that the
writer's regarded the negro not fellow
cttizen with themselves OF this free country.
but as burden which this country was bound
to take caro- OF or dispose OF as best it might.
No thinking man cen doubt that in the quarter
contury which has passed the promises Of
those who freed the negro from slavery have
nat been realized. Is the negro himself sat-
fshed with his progress and condition to-day?
A few months ago tho ship Liberia left her
pier on tho East River. bound for the Black
Iseuublic on tho west coast OF Africa. Anon:
hsr passengers were sixty or more negroes
Ehcy >ame from the cotton felds Of Georgia
and South CAROLINA. the plantations of Ten
nessee and tho orange groves of Florida.
Many OF them had never met before. They
were, poor. ignorant. and supcrstitious. but
fairly representative OF the great bulk of tho
colored population OF tho South. They
wege going to Liberia. the negro republic,
to lind . homo whore they could DO
really free. number Of them were
preachers az ignorant as the others. and to
them tho rest looked with respect and adnira-
f1on. The preachers talked OF tho wrongs Of
the American negroes OF to-day. and told
why they and their fellows were flying to an
other continent There was no such thing as
freedom for the negro In this country. they
ss&d. Civil rights were sham. There was no
show in this land Of freedom for the colored
man. The white man had oil the money. and.
while he intarisred very little with the black
man. be made It impossible for him TO acquire
wealth and real Independence. The white
man monopo!ized business and the pro-
fessions. and refused to encourage. by
patronage. the efforts OF tie black man to RISE
There WAS nothing for the black man except
manual toll and so.vie employ: there was no
chaRce for him in tho management OF the
Etats and nation. II he remained here he
must be content to remain an enfranchised
,aiaya Therefore. they said. they were going
TO seek their own land. When God made their
The negroes who came 10 this country came
not Of their own yoliton. They would go back
and on the soil which God gave them they
would build up u cnton Of their own where
the wh!to man would not oprrcss.
Although the opinions expressed by negroes
In these columns are In the IL ain hopeful. 1t is
fact that spirit OF dissatisfaction and un-
rest possesses the race. between tho lines Of
TIE expressions may be read tie story OF their
disappointment. TEs most hopeful among
them icok ahead TO. generations There Is
nothing In tho rrcsent. rho negroes are Il
.ehessful and long-caGuring people. They sell
dom complain o. their wrongs. But there Is
ei6pIhcance in thtg nlovemen. toward cm'gra-
tion, although It is regarded by tho majority
Of the race rs III Gdyi. cd and eventually futile
There is Significance in tho fact that its chief
advocats Ii Bishop ". II. Turner. one Of the
most advanced and widely influential colored
men IN the country. There is significance In
tho fact that agitation is widespread and
growing, and that professional men az well rs
the ignorant workers OF the plantations be-
Neve In the movement
Amonth or two ago q steamship from LIVER
pool landed handful of ragged and sickly
inegroes at the Barge ONCE. They had re-
tur ned from tho Black Republic on the coast
Of Africa. whore they had sailed year be&ore.
They told stories Of hardship and destitution
almost unbelievable. Tho country was new
and Wild: the ground had to be cleared before
4 could be cultivated and lie faiiow for years
fosors u Yielded satisfylng crops: II was next
% tmpossible to make u living: fever lurked
z TIE bush; starvation and distress was on
Thess SIs not the only emierant. who haye
tSss O..
eIpSgisnces do not deter others. Hardship
6nst be expeoted in new land. Bishop Turner
70 wants real freedom and Il. persuaded that
q eSnnok haVs Il in this republic OF tyrannous
- suffer oven. for the cause.
This Lbertan Laovement Ia not the only orc
omonl tho Southern negroes which betrays
-{kAlr inesMsfsetion and unrest, Countless
1yoiec6 of emigration to new lands IN IN ths
Xei2stors 70 from town to town haranRuing
f6H colorsd population and urging settlement
S1anos. where the vhites are not established.
and where, they assert. the negro can build up
fOr himself home and acquire. by reason OF hls
Seens, social and political Importance. Doubt
tSss some Of these agitators are talking IN the