The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-23
AGAINST EXPORTING
DR.. Burroughs on the Taking of
Negroes North.

Negroes North.
DR.. w. Berrien Burroughs of Bruins
wick is in the city for the purpose of
attending the meeting of the Society
of the Cincinnati to-day. DR.. Bur
roughs is a former resident of Savan-
nah and takes an interest in his ma
tive state and the South.
DR.. Burroughs. like all Southerners,
takes an interest in the negro of to-
day as his forefathers did in ante-bel-
lum days. He believes the South the
home of the negro. 1t is here he has
made his home and here are his b5st
interests. In conversation last n.g1t
with a Morning News reporter DR..
Burroughs expressed himself against
the taking away from this city by
agents, representing Northern employ
ment bureaus of negroes for service
in a climate and under conditions with
which they are entirely unfamiliar and
unprepared to make a livelihood.
If this is to be allowed he is in ia
Vor of both city and state license be-
ing enforced upon such agencies, in
sum they cannot pay.
1t would be nothing but fair and
just to enforce this tax" said DR.. Bur
roughs, especially as Savannah and
the state are made the main sufferers,
for. while times have advanced and
changed. l have in my possession a
certificate given to my grandfather by
the Mayor of the city of New York in
1906, granting him the right to remove
slave from that city to Savannah,
with the specification that the slave he
returned there.
Now, if it was just for slave own
er to remove his own personal property
from New York in the 1906 under
pledge to return him there within one
year. it is certainly right that we
should demand a heavy license of those
who seek to carry our servants and do
mestics from this city to that, robbing
us of the servitude with which we are
accustomed and which we are practi-
cally compelled to have. Let our ne
groes stay at home. The South is their
home. They are better off here and we
need them. If the North wants them,
make it pay the same, or a correspond
ing penalty to that our ancestors paid
nearly a century ago to get them"
In proof of the assertion that per-
NIT had to be secured in the year 1906
to remove slaves from New York to
Georgia with a promise to return them,
LIT. burroughs eAlllDlIeu d CeTIluCdIS,
given by the Mayor of New York in
the above year to his grandfather, Ben
iamin Burroughs, to take slave from
New York to Savannah. The certif-
cate is as follows:
by Dewitt Clinton, Mayor of the
City of New York.
ut being satisfactorily established II
me that Benjamin Burroughs, a native
and inha bitant of the state, intends to
a with him on a journey n the state
of Georgia, d male black slave, called
George, aged about Is years, and that
he also intends to return with the said
slave in about one year, l do hereby
certify that the said Benjamin Bur-
roughs is authorized under the above
circumstances, to take the said slave
with him out of the state of New
York
I'm witness, whereof, 1 have hereunto
subscribed my name and caused the
seal of the mayorality of the said city
to be affixed, this, the 28th day of No
vember, 1906.
In the permit the words I'm about
one year" have been scratched by the
holder of the permit he having no in
tention of ever returning to the state
of New York with the slave. The per-
nit, DR.. Burroughs, has in a neat white
frame. 1t shows the usage of age, but
still clear and legible. DR.. Burroughs
values the permit highly, and says that
it is probably one of the great number
of permits for the removal of slaves
from Northern states to the South
about this period, still in existence.
In explaining the cause and reason of
the permit. DR.. Burroughs said that a
brother of his grandfather w. H. Bur-
roughs, then living at Newtown, L. l.,
died and left his slaves to members of
his family. George happened to fall
to the lot of his grandfather, who wish
ed to remove him to Savannah, but be-
fore doing so had to secure the permit
as above reproduced. This permit had
to be displayed at the point of en-
barkation, but before showing 1t his
grandfather erased the words I'm
about one year" making. it look like
an erasure of the Mayor. In this man
ner he was able to get the boy clear of
the authorities and without obligating
himself further than verbally for his
return to the state of New York.