hese aid societies, and all other of the influences which are so
industriously brought to bear to disturb the equanimity of the
colored people of the South and to make them discontented with
their position, are doing them a positive and almost incalculable
injury, to say nothing of pecuniary losses which have thus been
inflicted upon Southern communities.

Your committee is further of opinion that Congress having enacted
all the legislation for the benefit of the colored people of the
South which under the Constitution it can enact, and having seen
that all the States of the South have done the same; that by the
Constitution of the United States and the constitutions of the
various States these people are placed upon a footing of perfect
equality before the law, and given the chance to work out their
own civilization and improvements, any further attempts at
legislation or agitation of the subject will but excite in them
hopes of exterior aid that will be disappointing to them, and
will prevent them from working out diligently and with care their
own salvation; that the sooner they are taught to depend upon
themselves, the sooner they will learn to take care of
themselves; the sooner they are taught to know that their true
interest is promoted by cultivating the friendship of their white
neighbors instead of their enmity, the sooner they will gain that
friendship; and that friendship and harmony once fully attained,
there is nothing to bar the way to their speedy civilization and
advancement in wealth and prosperity, except such as hinder all
people in that great work.

D. W. VOORHEES.
Z. B. VANCE.
GEO. II. PENDLETON.

REPORT OF THE MINORITY

_The undersigned, a minority of the committee appointed under
resolution of the Senate of December 15, 1879, to investigate the
causes which have led to the emigration of Negroes from the
Southern to the Northern States, submit the following report:_[4]

In the month of December last a few hundred colored men, women,
and children, discontented with their condition in North
Carolina, and hoping to improve it, were emigrating to Indiana.

This movement, though utterly insignificant in compar