The Greenville times., 1895-04-20
GREENVIIILE TINES
SATURDAY. APRIL 20. 1885
LET fHEM DEPART IN PEACE.

The resllessness and desire Tor
change among the negroes Of the
South Is finding a sort OF vent IN
the emigration movement 10 Liberia
Tue system Of deportation seems to te
better organized than others which
have had their day. II tavora-
be reports are sent back from the
e1lony already sent out, the movement
may assume larger proportions. Tie
nomadic habits aud character OF
the negroes fits them to become the
prey of schemers, as has been shown
IN the Kansas exodus, aud other wild
projects which have resulted in disas-
ter to them At various times; but the
Liberia plan presents possibilities
which may prove worthy the consider
alton Of the thoughtful. The press gen-
orally has paid but little attention TO
tbs matter. usually taking philosoph-
zeal view of It, and bidding the negroes
God speed with indifference. In some
localities, however, a stroug opposition
exists TO any plan for taking the negro
labor from the South. There is some
thing to be said on this side. As long as
the present white population of the
South remains iu control Of its social
and industrial conditions, the relations
OF the whites and negroes may well
remain undisturbed. They are our
only laborng class-yery faulty, 1t is
true, but we are accustomed 10 them
and they to US. They are measurably
tractable under subordinate position,
and since the dreams Of social and po-
litlcsl equality have been dlsslFated,
they yearly manifest less and less dis
position to question the absolutism OF
white supremacy.
But the South, socially aud induslrI-
ally speaking, is In state Of lransi-
tion. Its white population is chang
Ing. II is now attracting a class Of
whites TO whom the negro is a stranger,
and In whose eyes he is altogether OBJ
jectlonable. These people are coming
TO the South to possess the aud.
They will be their own laboring class.
The negro will find, in q few years,
that the white people who knew how
to make allowance for his sins, his
weaknesses and his ineiIlciency, have
been supplanted by new comers who
have little sympathy with him, aud no
patience with his Shortcomings. 1t
Is folly to imagine that the two races
will ever approach each other more
closely. The lines diverge steadily, and
will do so more aud more with the
dying out of old traditions and the
leniiy for advent of people 10 whom
the old time kindly relations are a
thing unknown.
Small future lies before the negro In
America but subordlnatlon. This con.
diilon, OF one race eucysted. so TO
speak, In the midst of an entirely diff
ferent one, and kept in state of prac-
tical vassalagc, is repuguant to Re.
publican institutions and the Ameri.
can form of government. That the
condition of the nogro will ever be
otherwise does not appear. The dom.
inant character of the Angle Saxon
race admits of no compromise; and
nature is stronger far than law or mr.,
OF man. Out OF this condition we sec
looming that hardest and mos. releut.
less of all these, the survival of the
fittest.
Against their environments tho No.
gro VIII wage feeble struggle Tbev
are weak race. They cannot compete
with white enterprise, intelligence, and
courage. The time will some day
come when there will be but Ii,pl,ed
place for them, even in the most mepi.
al capacity. They will as a mass be
forced into condition bordering mn.
on vagabondage-a reproach and a
problem to our government and tbe
despair OF philanthropists and Chris.
tians. 1t is this forbidding apparitiou
which invites apractical solvent of the
negro question such as depotatiou to
countries where the race will be fa,
removed from struggle with the 70.
morseless dominance of the Anglia
Saxon.
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