The Colfax Chronicle

A Sensible Suggestion.

The excitement of the colored people in several parishes of this State over the Kansas exodus should be a sufficient warning to the planters that they must prepare to receive the shock at some future time, if not at present. A population so easily cajoled and deceived as are the colored people may at any time or at any moment, and for an imaginary cause ruin the agricultural interest of this country. The advancement and the prosperity of this country depends upon the stability of the laboring classes. The land owner cannot calculate upon a profit, or expect a subsistence from those who till his lands, unless it is done with system and not by a class of people who at any moment--perhaps in the very midst of a costly crop--would leave the country and abandon their work.

There is a remedy for such a state of things. This remedy lies in the convention now sitting in New Orleans. Let the convention encourage immigration--let them create a bureau for this purpose, let a sum of money be appropriated for this and we will have found the remedy all are now seeking. The planter can as an individual assist in this enterprise. He should be open handed and liberal in his contributions. The country needs hardy and sturdy immigrants, and these can easily be secured if we only go at it properly. And this is the very best time to inaugurate such a movement.

The above views of the Marksville Bulletin meet our hearty approval. Everything possible ought to be done to get reliable laborers in the State. Then if the negroes want to go to Kansas, let them go. The State will not be the loser by it, for none but those who have nothing--the tramps--will go. No well-to-do negro is going to break himself up to go to Kansas, and these are the only kind we care to have stay--the wealth producers, who are of benefit to themselves and to the State.