Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1877 — We's Gwien Home. [ARTICLE]

We's Gwien Home.

jThc movement among the colored people of South Carolina with a view to emigration to Liberia begins to bo formidable enoughtoattract attention. 11 H conducted by whnt Is known »s the Liberia Exodus Association, ostensibly composed of colonists. The agents of this association go through the country holding meetings, and through the churches and societies to wliich the negroes are attached a great deal,of interest has been ttri»ti»ed. The free State in Africa is painted by these agents ns a land flowing not only with milk nnd honey, but with bread and molasses; a land wheffi the negro has his own Way in everything, where there is neither Ku-Klux nor carpet-bagger, where three crops of corn nre gatheted every yrar, and cotton grows, like grass, in the old fields without replanting. It is easy Io imagine the effect of this picture upon the discouraged laborers nnd idlers in the streets of Charleston or the shiftless field hands of t he.sea islands. Tlmgoppel of colonization needs oidy tv be’ pt-cached to tnnko converts. At meetings in Charleston great.enthusiasm has been manifested, nnd over 30,(M;0 persons, mostly ’from the city of Charleston nnd from Barnwell, Beaufort nnd Edgefield counties, have registered for emigration. The promise of a farm in Liberia looks now ns rosy to the poor black j man ns did that of forty acres and n mulo ! a few years ago, upon which his faith was I fed so long. Evidently tho would-be emigrants aro in dead earnest; rill they ask is transportation across the seas. “The gospel ship is sailin’; children git on bonrd,” is the hymn of the day.—Bhiladclpldu Times.