I can add nothing to his argument. and will not detract from its force and conclusiveness by any attempt to follow on the same line. In order that I may not be misunderstood. I wish to assert once for all that this movement of emigration. which has been so falsely and so ridiculously styled the "exodus" of the negroes from the South. never had any terrors for me. nor have I looked upon it with either alarm or deprecation. If it be a normal movement of emigration growing out of a healthful demand for that kind of labor at the North. and a healthful sufficiency of its supply in the South to meet the demand. it should be regarded as a natural and vigorous play of the industrial forces of this country. fraught with no permanent evil either to the country which they leave. the emigrants themselves. or the land to which they go. If it be as the Senator from Indiana has demonstrated it to be in this instance. a movement inaugurated and carried on by combinations and associations for political purposes and for party ascendency. in a great measure. while I would regret the injury suffered by the victims of the delusion. I should nevertheless think that there are benefits of an equivalent and compensating character attached to this movement.
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