Address (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from AddressSo this exodus is, to my view, preliminary. A few thousands will take wing. But it is monitory, and must command the atten tion of the political economist, the statesman, the churchman, and the planter. In all probability, new-year's day on the morning of the lst of January, 1920, the colored population in the South will scarcely be counted. Perished, emigrated, vanished. A few old people will linger, as the Cherokees do on their reservation in North Carolina, and a small number here and there who may still earn precarious bread as they pass away. Long before that period, ten millions of bales of cotton will be raised by white labor, and the manufacture of eight-tenths of the cotton fabrics will be the work of the South. But this exodus is out of season. The stork in the heavens knoweth her appointed times: and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow observe the times of their coming. This exodus is a sort of abnormal ¿ight in mid-summer. But the normal season may not be many decades in the future.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.