Year: 1879




The latest dispatches convey the
sntelligence that the negro exodus from
the Southern States has been resumed,
special trains Of cars having been char
tered from different points in Tennss-
SEQ to convey the flying fugitives from
an oppression worse than slavery, to
Kansas and various other western
points. 1t is believed by those who
are familiar with the causes of the exc
dus that not less than hundred thou
sand colored people will emigrate from
the South this fall. The fact, that
nearly all the refugees who went to
Kansas last spring are doing we'll, and


are oontented and happy, is powerful
iacentive to resume Of the exodus.
The helpless condition Of the negroes all
through the South, appeals pitifully to
the sympathies of the great mass
Of the Northern people, who
would now nc doubt rather coutribute
to assist the down trodden Negro than
to contribute to assist even the yellow
fever sufferers who in great measure,
on account of their indolent and sloth-
full habits, are the cause Of their own
misSortunes. OF course we mean the
lsttsr part Of this remark to apply
to those in authority who neglect
or refuse to make any provision BY
which the disease may b. warded of.
All through the South, but in some
States more than others, the negro Is
helpless as against his employers and
the traders. The former grind him TO the
earth, and then with the trader cheats
him out Of his hard earned wages. II
he complains he Is turned adrift and
as the employers combined against him
he can get no more work, and then the
vagrant act comes into play and the
Door negro is robbed Of even his misef 4
able ssmblance Of freedom. That the
negroes have TO large extent been
practically disfranchised, may be infer
red from the general condition Of pow
srty and helplsssness to which they
have been reduced. Men who are kept
at starvation point and dare not mus-
mur or move lest they be thrust in.o
the vagrant gang, may be controlled
politically without even sho: guns. II
they vote their ballots are not counted


unless they be cast in favor of their
own oppression and degradation. News
now almost daily reach the North, Of
the inauguration of the shot gun cleo
tion campaign which will continue un-
til after the election Of the next Pres
ident. While the North, owing to the
freedom of speech which is tolerated
and the liberty Of conscience in politi-
cal as well as other subjects will have
a comparatively quiet and peaceable
campaign, the South promises to be over
run with midnight riders, outlaws and
assassins whose hands will be made
red with the blood OF murdered Repub-
licans, either black or white. just as
they happen to stand in the way Of the
complete carrying out of the Southern
Democratic plan to keep the South SOL
i'd. In short colored Republicans must
sither forego the privilege Of voting or
run the risk of being murdered on their
way 10 the polls, or Of being visited by
. gang of midnight riders, called out
and shot down in their own doors. Un-
der these circumstances it cannot be
wondered at that the negro exodus has
commenced even in the fall with the
rigors Of . severe winter right ahead Of
them. Any thing to get away from the
hell upon earth that the Democrats
have made the South.