I believe what I have stated will be the way in which the question will work itself out. Commenting on this prediction of Mr. Morton as to white immigration into the South. I used this language. and in it. as will be seen. the sentence. part of which was quoted by the Senator. appears: In the light of subsequent events see how his project has worked out. If we maysdopt the census reports as being even approximatelycorrecetwe find that since he made his prediction the negropopulation of Mississippi. from beingin 1870 about 60.000 more than the white. was 170.000 more in 1880. and even with no greater rate of increase since wemust have today about400. 000 more negroes than white people in Mississippi. and it is estimated by some thatmore negroes moved into the counties composing the Yazoo Delta in the first three months of the year 1889 than there were white immigrants who settled in the entire State in the same time. Again the Senator said: It would seem just to those rapidly increasing citizens that the State should give them encouragement to fit themselves for all the duties and responsibilities which citizenship casts upon them. and accord to them all proper opportunities for improvement in their general conditions. But it is suggested that this would be an unwise course for the State to pursue.
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