Go to it, my Southern Brothers, the North needs you. Better a thousand times, even if it was true, to run chances of being nipped by the fingers of Jack Frost than to shake off this mortal coil at the end of the lynchers’ rope, or to the crackling of the lynchers’ fire brand –“The Defender”

What is the main idea of the quotation from the Chicago Defender?

a. African Americans should not migrate to the North.
b. African Americans should beware of the cold weather.
c. African Americans should beware of lynchers.
d. African Americans should migrate to the North.