The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-28
SHALL THE NEGRO BE SENT To
AFRICA.
That Is the Question That a south
Carolina Planter Desires AEifated.

That Is the Question That "A south
Carolina Planter Desires Agifated.
Editor Morning News: Through the me
dium OF your agricultural edition would
YOU invite short and pithy articles from
your rural subscribers on the migration
craze now agitating the Ethiopian in our
midst? Would the negro improve himself
and succeeding generations BY migration
to his fatherland. the soil OF which is Of
inexhaustibie fertility through centuries
Of unknown and unconjecturai rest. owing
10 the nature Of the barbarians claiming
it as home. and would the white race be
benefited by the exodus, voluntary or com
nulsory2
As a planter of the day employing say
seventy-fye adult hands per annum. and
dependant solely upon African labor. I am
Of the opinion that the south can never
know peace. security and the success in
cLdental only upon honest. skilled labor,
until our country is relieved Of the black
burden Of thriftless negroes. that like the
black. forbidding cloud that prcsages dis
aster. hangs like the pail Of death over
every effort Of the white man. There are
Industrious negroes, intelligent and appre-
ciative Of the opportunities presented
them, but what percentage OF the popua-
ton would they represent and how arc
their efforts retarded by the lazy and
shiftless preponderance Of their species?
But the injury done them is infinitesimal
In comparison to that entailed upon the
Caucasian, whose wife and children are
unsafe though only a mile interVenes be-
tween the school house and his home,
tho only a clump OF trees obstruct the
view 'twiXt his residence and the cold
spring beside the branch or rivulet which
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are plundered by night by the man who has
been paid to cultivate IL by day. Hogs are
stolen. cows killed. poultry houses raided,
fruit literally forbidden as an adjunct to
the comforts OF home, thieving every
where, of everything. a every opportunity.
and this by people whom Livingston, Ba-
ker and Stanley assure us have been thus
constituted for ages. their kings and chief
tains being given to stealing everything,
even each other. and thereby sending their
human booty to this land OF the free for
sale. Mr. Ingalls, Of Kansas made the
sweeping declaration that the negro was
the cause Of all the sectional antagonisms.
war. butchery and arson that this coun-
try has ever known. over one million OF
white men were killed or died in the effort
to free him and make him the political and
social equal of the white race. over a bill.
lion of treasure spent and destroyed in this
unholy craze To-day our lands are de-
preciated. our efforts frustrated. our polit-
ical affairs chaotic, our women unsafe be-
cause the negro is in our midst The
United States OF America bought him,
taught him, civilized him, Christianized
him. and to-day he is. if ne ever is to be,
fitted out to carry his civilization to his
naked brethren under the equator He
alone can do It. Those In favor Of re-
quiring him kindly. but firmly through
United States governmental aid to go to
the Congo, write aye; those against, no.
Agricola.