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Hungering f*r H«gr«M.LoQtavlUe Oouritr-Joiirepl.The Indiana correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette, In a recent letter concerning the “neg£o immigration” from the South to tjiat State, asserts that there ia a moat wonderful and ever increasing demand for the black people. Says be: ’‘♦Partners want tpem. The plan of having two or vfcreo hired men, with their families, sattliog on a farm in little homes of thtfr own, is a new one in Indiana. In Jainter or summer their labor turn be lt;depended upon. If sickness afters the farmer's borne, colored nu$ses are at hand. The women, too, cat^ milk and wash and make garden. If necessary, they can go into the field or take care ofthe stock. Their children can run errands and do lighter work. Thus a farmer becomes independent of all outsiders. One farmer said to me to day that he would fake them even if the ordinary farm: laborers were plenty.” t* * * * * *“Mr. Langsdale sap that, in his opinion, there is great need in Indiana for the labor of and 20,000 colored m already come from This opinion was upon his experience homes for those who and upon in ter viewsdonee with many fariof the State. The de bold help, he continu same. Girls and wo how and are willing t can find homes in our best families. Indeed, their coming; would be an absolute blessing to the wives and daughters who, in many families, are now overworked. This is especially true in the country.”Another ardent afmirer of the “movement” asserted to the correspondent that 100,000 negroes were wanted in Indiana and would do well, as fully one-third of the State is a howling wilderness which needs settlers badly.There are two or three things noticeable about the staMjtnenls of this correspondent, whoso; encouraging report as to Indiana’s; eagerness for the negro, we hope is tot exaggerated. Observe that these Indiana farmers propose to hate negro, quarters in imitation ofime, and *«i-rmind vailseveral families of negroes apiece. Tbey propose, aBjhQwfyj ^corree-ponaent s letter, to relieve themselves of all drudgery and hold the negroes as dependents and tenants, to bear all the burden and heat of-the day. The Hoosier farmer no doubt pictures• • l # i • r m *BEARThat everything in theWatch, Clock, Jewelry, Silverware and Spectacle line is advancing in price.That Brattin has a large stock.w*an80!shestobaiiThat he bought before therise.That he is still selling at oldpricesThat he repairs Watches,Clocks, Jewelry and Spectaclesin th$ best manner.tween 10,000 , such as have orth Carolina, ased, he said,in providing ad come here, d corresponds of all parts nd for house-is about the n who know do such workThat he engraves free, all goods he sells.BuWiamupuniThkejsraiqutcigi(CJcanantitelt; in \ dia whThat now is the time andBrattin’s Jewelry Store, Green -castle, Indiana, the place for bargains.land lack of readiness to “find homes”(as the cadaverous nnd . humorous Langsdale says) for the “fleeingblacks,” and to invite them cordifljly thither.We hope the Southern negro girls will remember Mr. Langsdale’s pledge, that “their coming would be an absolute blessing to the wives and daughters, who in many families are now overworked.” Of course Langsdale means tbat the negroes shall receive wages equal at least to their white breathren. These “overwork od” wives and daughters are, of course, fully able to get wbifce girls and women to do their work, but they prefer the black article, and they should pay a good price for it. Mr. Langsdale could no doubt increase the volume of tbe exodus by printing a scale of wages for negro girls and women.It is really a wonder that, with such an enormous demand for black people, Langsdale has not ere this secured bis 20,000 peons. We must copfeaa ~ that Jjihe meagecnesa with which tbe exodus tide nows into Indiana suggests to us the sad fact that Langsdale and tbe Indianapolis Journal have been representing a condi-meabcweiedhima donselfandIofwifJugcbaretieleituried.priiverabavertbobandifftriaTwOltion of affairs which docs not exist, to bimseif a life of ease and comfort, Lbul wo bate to believe anything ofbIiJ919?Seret8ritkdIfnenofd1-7itLS.rhehereellx-ii du»tsurrounded by his peons; his wife and daughters waited upon by the negro women, the errands of the household performed by little negro boys and girls, and tbe boots blacked and pipe filled by black servitors. Langsdale, the long-haired, dark-browed apostle of the new evangel of labor, has no doubt duly presented to the view of his agricultural friends a glowing picture of rosy case and lotos eating. He has brotight about the conviction among hisbriends tbat the Indiana farmer may henceforth, when bo has got bis supply of black people, loaf on tbe front gallery and watch the “niggers” at work in the field, while his daughters take their ease in hammocks, fanned by obsequious colored girls.This is an attractive outlook for the weary Indiana agriculturists. Of course, io the full flush of their new-born labor system they don’t consider the somewhat cogent fact tht if tbey “become independent of all outsiders,” they can not, by any possibility, become independent of their black peons, who will become a permanent investment, their natural fecundity increasing the population of the farm aft an enormous rate with tbe attendant1 drain *on the proprietary exchequer for supplies, doctors’ bills and innumerable other matters which could be mentioned.But we are unwilling to throw anyobstacles in the way of the new departure, for the other side of the picture will be a matter of personal experience with the proposed negro drivers.We want them to go ahead with greater earnestness and celerity inthis work. If Indiana wants 100,000 Southern negroes* Ohio certainly oan “find homes” for 200,000 more. We are pained to observe that not a word of kindly invitation has come from Pennsylvania or any of the New England States, bidding tbe “oppressedblack men” coins to these localities. The Pittsburgh papers preserve a masterly silence, one Republican paper only giving utterance to the opioibn that the oegroes “should be kept in the South,” and taking no more interest ip the deliverance ofthe kind about these redoubtable champions of “human liberty.” If they want 100,000 negroes across the river and are in a harry for them, we have no donbt that Martindale, Holloway, Langsdale, and tbe rest can, by a little exertioD, secure that number in Kentucky and Tennessee. Tbey ought to know tbat the colonization of 4,000,000 blacks in the Northern States is a job which wii) cost money. As we are very desirous to see that job accomplished, we have earnestly counseled ExoduB Windom to stir his people up to tbe point of giving liberally. It wifi be shameful for Exodus Windom to let the exodus droop, afler all the fiery talk he has uttered on the subject during tbe last year. He Bhould remember tbat next summer those poor, “overworked” Indiana farmers and “wives and daughters” will want tbe peonage system fully established. They certainly ought to be enabled to try it as soon as possible.Htucif, iwhchrtheaboTttlt;andDeidisthewitina hforhojthathehisthenisthaiffprlt;hethocela from the alleged “shotgu os and “Wood hound#” than iffthasubject waa the veriest yawn-provoking trifle. Wa. have dona our bast to awakep tha lethargy of the Pennsylvania phlUothropUft, baft one and/»•alland those of New Borland alao, tell M tbat fndiaea is the btaekman’iIndiana Newe.Cbawfordsvillb, Ind., January 17.—,Mrs. Fruits, of Alamo, died last night, aged one hundred years. Her husband George Fruits, died four years ago, at the advanced age of 113.Plainfikld, Ind., January 17.— Last night George Gladden, while sitting in bis houeqsix miles north of here, was called by men outside. He refused to open the door, when they fired through the window, striking him in the cheek and inflicting a dangerous wound.Franklin, Ind., January 17.—Yesterday morning John Hosier, a mute living near Morgantown, went out hunting. A abort time after he was found lying dead in the field of Byron Morman, a short distance from his home. It is supposed be was instantly killed by the accidental disoharge of his gun, the contents entering his left side.Sullivan, Ind., January 17.—Tonight several drunken coal miners wont to Madame Dale’s house of ill-fame, where one had been fleeoed out of some money, and being mush enraged, used violent language, threatened to bur* the house, and put* ting a rope around her neok threatened to bang theproprietress, when assisUnos arriving, the,MAETiiwviLLn/IwD., Jauuery IVJohn Hosier, a young mao aged about twaaty, who bad been livingwitb a Mr. Hiram Norman for mimehiikethlt;wlthipit80lt;wlwlththyccowllitwlt;exthTlTlnlt;hetrdiMPJciolSINntiguQV0esctlt;1«i1our sens canfeetupon them.l*§W'Ottlfis* their eaxUtytarn„ Uu*»•«»** ftjKibono*iMH, committed Micid. bd«M.ad 10 o'nor nine;K lt;MO
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Greencastle Dollar Press
Greencastle, Indiana, US
Wed, Jan 21, 1880
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