ch windows reached down to the
floor, and through the open casements appeared a seductive scene
in the family sitting room. The colored father, who had just
returned from his harvest fields, sat in an easy chair reading a
newspaper, while the children and babies rollicked on the floor
of the piazza. Through the open door of the kitchen the colored
wife could be seen directing the servants and cooks who were
preparing the evening meal. In the parlor, however, was the most
enchanting feature, for at a grand piano was poised the belle of
the household, and beside the piano where she was playing stood
her colored lover, devouring her with his eyes while he
abstractedly turned the leaves of her music. Just to one side of
the dwelling appeared a commodious barn and carriage house and
workmen busily engaged in putting in order their reapers and
mowers for the following day.

In one of these pictures, "Old Auntie" sits on the veranda
knitting stockings while she gazes on herds of buffalo and
antelope, which are feeding on the prairies beyond the wheat
fields. Approaching the gate a handsome colored man is seen
coming in from the hunt, with a dead buck and a string of wild
turkeys slung over his shoulders. These agricultural cartoons, in
vivid coloring, the writer reports are doing much to influence
the minds of the more ignorant Negroes.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] This appeared in _The Vicksburg Commercial Daily Advertiser_, May
6, 1879.

REMARKS ON THIS EXODUS BY FREDERICK DOUGLASS[1]

WASHINGTON, May 6.

Fred. Douglass, marshal of the District, is out in a very strong
letter, published in the _National View_, the new Greenback organ
here, vigorously opposing the emigration of Negroes from the
South. He earnestly advises the colored men to remain at home.

The letter has caused a good deal of annoyance among the leading
Republicans, who have been vigorously working up this movement,
believing that it was a godsend to them and would be a strong
issue in future campaigns.

Fred. Douglass winds up his letter as follows:

"I am opposed to this exodus, because it is an untimely
concession to the idea that white people and colored people
cannot live together in peace and prosperity unless the whites
are a majority and