The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-05

be so oppressed as to create this race
| moving impulse How little southern
negroes are so affected we see in the very
small number that have moved out of the
/ old slave states into northern and west
ern portions of the union. 1t may be
answered they find that their condition
is not helped by such movings in the
United States. Let another make the re-
tort, l will not anticipate it by so much
as Offering an opinion about it,
AS to moving the negroes to Africa by
force, ! never heard of a southern man
who entertained such a thought for a mo-
meut Were t attempted from without
ana the negroes were passive land they
would not be passive southern men would
make trouble of an extraordinary sort.
If there were fit country in which to
settle them; if there were means for
moving them. no right-thinking man
would consent to send these people away
against their will Violent deportation
would surpasS the wrong that brought
them here.
The exceptions to these statements are
so few that they do not count in any view
of the whole subject under consideration.
The southern white people who want
them out of this country are as few as
| the negroes who have gone to Africa or
wish TO go.
A few weeks since the newspapers told
US of some striking brotherhood" that
passed resolutions that the negro must
GO They were not men of the south,
the men of the south will protect the ne
gro against men like these if they 60 be-
yond resolutions to deeds
What Gods providence may bring
about as to the relation of these truly
wonderful people TO Africa men will
know what time it pleases God to show
/ his designs TO men. That the negro race
in America has important and vital rela-
tions to the future of Africa is as plain to
me as that they came from Africa. But
this is equally clear, if all the negroes
wished to go, if all white people wished
them TO go, if the United States govern
ment owned vast territories in Africa, if
the people of the United States were
ready TO foot the bill' for moving and
settling and protecting them, the negroes
here are now no more ready for SO stu
pendous change than Africa is ready
for them. Great changes are going on in
Africa. Greater by education and Chris
tianiZatiOn among the negroes here.
Before closing this article another view
of the case should be presented. The
southern negro has business and other
interests in this country which he begins
TO appreciate very highly. He is getting
land of his own he is accumulating prop
erty; he is educ ating his children. He is
getting to be business man. At this
point / quote paragraph from a speech
delivered in the United States Senate
May 2S, by the junior senator from Geor-
gia, Patrick Walsh, an Irishman pro-
foundly patriotic to America; a Catholic
so broad-minded and liberal that he is an
example of tolerance and charity to many
Protestants, than whom an honester,
truer man is not in the United States
Senate. l have many times gone over the
ground and the senator's statements are
from first sources-the books of the con-
troller general of Georgia. Georgia has
separate lists for the return of taxable
property by whites and blacks. II is i'm
portant that we study the business facts
that enter into the general question. II
is TO be wished that other southern states
would adopt the same method.
Senator Walsh better authority than
Miss Ida Wells, says:
"A fact worthy of note is that the ne
groes returned for taxation in Georgia.
property aggregating in value in 1879,
as, ls2 ,39s; in 1889. $l0,415, $50; in 1893,
Sl4, 960675. He might have added that
the initiative negro never gives i'm his
property at any fancy valuation $4,000
900 in 1893 means about $40 0O0, 0O0.J
This is an indi5putable evidence that the
negro is given fair showing, and that in
Georgia the industrious and economical
citizen can make living and accumulate
property. whether he be white or black
The negro is treated fairly, and besides
being able TO acquire property, his children
are given educational advantages which
they eagerly improve. Georgia appro-
PIRATES in round numbers 81, 100, 900 for
public schools, and this goes equally to
the education Of both races. The whites
and blacks live psaceably and contentedly
together and the negroes recognize that
their best friends are the whites among
whom they live. who know their habits
and customs and have a more genuine
interest in Them than those who profess
great deal more"
This witness is true. l spell "Negro"
with a big s." In this question Negro
means a race and not a color.
ATTICUs @. HAYGooD.