These radicals advocated the deportation of the blacks to prevent the recurrence of "Negro domination." This plan was acceptable to the whites in general also, for, unlike the consensus of opinion of today, it was then thought that the South could get along without the Negro.[4] Even newspapers like the _Charleston News and Courier_, which denounced the persecution of the Negroes, urged them to emigrate to Africa as they could not be permitted to rule over the white people.

The _Minneapolis Times_ wished the scheme success and Godspeed and believed that the sooner it was carried out the better it would be for the Negroes.
Most of the influential newspapers of the country, however, urged the contrary.

Citing the progress of the Negroes since emancipation to show that the blacks were doing their full share toward developing the wealth of the South, the _Indianapolis Journal_ characterized as barbarism the suggestion that the government should furnish them transportation to Africa.

"The ancestors of most of the Negroes now in this country," said the editor, "have doubtless been here as long as those of Senator Morgan, and their descendants are as thoroughly acclimated and have as good a right here as the Senator himself."[5] This was the opinion of all useful Negroes except Bishop H.M.Turner, who endorsed Morgan's plan by advocating the emigration of one fourth of the blacks to Africa.

The editor of the _Chicago Record-Herald_ entreated Turner to temper his enthusiasm with discretion before he involved in unspeakable disaster any more of his trustful compatriots.
Speaking more plainly to the point, the editor of the _Philadelphia North American_ said that the true interest of the South was to accommodate itself to changed conditions and that the duty of the freedmen lies in making themselves worth more in the development of the South than they were as chattels.