The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-06-17
To Import 1000 Negroes to Bay state.

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Boston May 29.-To punish the
southern states for what is termed
their wicked oppression Of the negro
race" some 1000 southern negroes
are to be imported to Massachusetts,
before the 1st of September. A
colored minister named J. y. Duckrey,
whose pastorate is Baptist church
in Cambridge, is the active worker in
the movement, and it is rumored
that his project has substantial back.
ing. In the words of the parson,
"An exodus has always been the only
| e6ectual refuge of an oppressed race
or class since the time that the He
brews left Egypt"
So he is preaching and urging and
organizing an exodus from Virginia,
the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama.
$40 hope Of freedom for the negro
can be entertained while he remains
in his present environment" says
Duckrey. $50 they are coming north.
We expect 1000 of them before Sep
tember, and they will make Massa-
ohuset!s and New Hampshire bloom
like the rose. There is relatively
more unocoupied land in New England
than there is in the Mississippi val
ley, and the southern negroes who are
coming will make possible the utili-
zatiou of this land. I have pushed
the church extension settlement idea
in the north, but the idea of q general
exodus was really that of wealthy
man of the race who owns 5 acres OF
land in the center Of southern city.
He is actively assisting the movement
in the south.
Duokrey and his associates admit
that the object Of the proposed exo-
dus are twofold. The prime object,
they say, is to better the condition Of
the negro. Secondly, they believe
that by removing the negro from the
south they will injure the southern
whites, some Of whom, they assert,
"can neither SOW nor reap when this
movement has worked out to its full
extent"
If Duokrey and his associates think
they have at last solved the 90. o.called.
race problem, they are destined to
wake up some day with sudden
start. The chief factor to be con-
tended with by these enthusiasts is
the power in this state of organised
labor. Northern mill owners and
other employees of labor have threat
ened that, in the event of the various
unl ons becoming too arbitrary, they
will replace their white employees
with blacks from the southern states.
Should such q contingency arise it is
more than possible that race riots as
violent as any in the sout would be
waged in the Bay State. Collectively
labor unions are suspicious, and nny
marked increase Of negro labor to the
north would be viewed in an ugly
light.
And then-the fact cannot be disre-
garded in spite Of what the negro
northern supporters say comes the
question Of race prejudice. Lat our
''race equality" soreamers say what
they will, there is no such thing as
race equality in Boston. William
Lloyd Garrison and Thomas Went
worth Higginson may attend negro ban.
quets on emancipation day, but they are
the exception. The Massachusetts, levs
favor the negro, but 80 far as social
and industrial life is concerned the me-
gro is looked down upon. AT the pres-
ent time the negro population in Boston
is upwards Of 10000. and Of this num-
Der scarcely handful are tradesmen,
the majority being unskillsd laborers.
Add 1000 negroes to the number We
already have and there is likely 70 be
trouble.
Duokrey's experiment is an inter.
esting one, but it is doomed to result
disastrously. Atlanta Constitution.
Won't let his People Go.