As a result from this we are a vigorous. active. restless people. abridging even human life by the attrition and waste incident to our perpetual activities. This has been so characteristic of the country and so uniform that it ceases to be novel with us. We not only bring emigrants here in excess of all other people in the world. hut when they come they move. and the native population moves. and the whole country. if we look at it in reference to this question. is a popular ocean. whose waves are never at rest. This motive to movement and migration is the result of the growth of intelligence and mechanical development. Now. in this tendency of the negro to emigrate we have a hopeful sign that he is catching the spirit of American energy and enterprise. and taking on American habits and ideas. and there is therefore nothing in the movement which is not creditable to the institutions of the country and creditable to the race that is immediately affected: There is another cause which has contributed to the migratory tendency of the negro. There has been some disappointment among the negroes arising from their failure to realize the saugmne expectations of acquiring homesteads and accumulating property. Thia has originated in the very nature of things and is not chargeable to. any political consideration. nor does it reflet at all unfavorably upon the people of the South.
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Negroes are catching the spirit of American energy and enterprise.