Commending this step, the _Macon Telegraph_ referred to their action as a rebellion against the social laws which govern all people of this country.

This organ further said that it was the outcome of a feeling which has grown stronger and stronger year by year among the Negroes of the Southern States and which will continue to grow with the increase of education and intelligence among them.

The editor conceded that they had an opportunity to better their material condition and acquire wealth here but contended that they had no chance to rise out of the peasant class.

The _Memphis Commercial Appeal_ urged the building of a large Negro nation in Africa as practicable and desirable, for it was "more and more apparent that the Negro in this country must remain an alien and a disturber," because there was "not and can never be a future for him in this country." The _Florida Times Union_ felt that this colonization scheme, like all others, was a fraud.

It referred to the Negro's being carried to the land of plenty only to find out that there, as everywhere else in the world, an existence must be earned by toil and that his own old sunny southern home is vastly the better place.[9] Only a few intelligent Negroes, however, had reached the position of being contented in the South.