The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-12
The Movement of Blacks TO Liberia.

The Movement Of Blacks TO Liberia.
The movement Of negroes 10 Liberia
under the direction OF the African Mi
/ grafton Society may grow 10 considera-
/ bic proportions Whether 90 does or not
will depend largely upon whether the
] negroes who are in the van Of the move
ment are so wen satisfied with their con-
/ diton there that they will send back re-
/ ports OF q character that viii encourage
] Others. TO follow them.
There is something very attractive to
/ the negroes in the thought Of going TO
a country from which their ancestors
were brought, and there setting up a
government of their own. They know
nothing Of course Of the hardships which
they viii have 10 encounter. nor Of the
difficulties they viii have 10 overcome In
Liberia before they viii be able 20 make
a living They believe the way has been
prepared for them. so that they viii
have little or nothing TO DO except 20 take
possession Of homes that are awaiting
them. Doubtless very aIuring pictures
Of life in Liberia have been presented to
NAtttt-s 4 AAeAA NtaNy VIII ne tAtEai lfHtiAttaA
goes without saying. stnl. if they are in
dustrious and persevcring they may Sue
coed in doing fairly well.
Il we understand the character Of the
African Migration Society it is an organ
ization to make money. White. men are
at the head Of it, and they are in it for
what they can make out Of it, That
being the case they viii get as many
Of the negroes to go to Liberia as they
can. They understand the negro charac-
ter pretty well apparently and they know
therefore how to make negroes dissatis-
fed with their condition in this country
and to induce them to believe that the
thing for them to. do Is to turn their
property into cash and embark for Lii
IBERIA.
The 200 Liberia-bound negroes. who are
now in this city waiting for transporta-
ton to their destination, are pretty well
provided with money, If what the white
agent, who is in charge of them, says
is correct. in fact they are much better
supplied in that respect than the great
majority of immigrants from Europe to
this country. That being the case, they
have been reasonably prosperous, more
prosperous than they will likely be for
long time after their arrival in Liberia.
If negroes should put forth as much en-
ergy and be as thrifty in this country
as they will have to be in Liberia to ac-
complish anything they would soon en-
JOY degree of prosperity of which they
would not likely complain.
If the. migration assumes large proper
lions the negroes viii be missed in the
localities which they desert. But it win
be possible to get along without them.
The vacancies they create viii be filed
by white immigrants from the north and
west. AS a matter of fact, the presence
Of so many negroes in the south has kept
away white home seekers. The whites
feel they cannot compete successfully with
the negroes as Iaborers, and besides, they
don't want to live in the same neighbor-
hood with them.
The southern people do not Of course
desire that the negroes shall leave the
south, because they are the south's la
borers but no obstacle will be put in the
way Of their going. Indeed, there is
ground for thinking that their going
would, in some respects, be a blessing.
However there is no prospect that
those who go TO Liberia within the next
ten or fifteen days will perceptibly dimin-
ish the number of the blacks. 1t would
take good many ships to transport the
natural increase OF them and more money
than the African Migration Society is
likely to collect from it's members.