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‘The Purely Political Character of the Movement With the Intention of Carrying Indiana. ‘The Movement ‘Neither Spontaneous Or Natural—But the Ream of Conspiracy. A Complete Review of the Entire Exodus Movement, Considered From Every Point of View. — Pauper Additions to Our Population. While New York is watching with eager solicitude the importation of paupers from Europe, the Republican press, and the Republican party of Indiana are inviting pau per negroes from the South to come to Indiana by Anndreds and by thousands for no other reason under Heaven but to vote the Republi can ticket. One angele, who is said to be the editor of a “red hot Republican paper,” proposes to find ‘homes for all who come. The leading Republican paper of ‘this State expresses the opinion that each county in the State needs 200 of the paupers—male adults who with their families, will swell the grand total of the'4army ‘of the negro paupers to about 56,000. There is absolutely no work for them. Every day’s work they may do IS VIRTUALLY TAKING BREAD from the mouths of the white people of In diana who have to work for a living. But if these pauper negroes come, they come to vote the Republican ticket, to rob white la borers of the means of support, and to make a livelihood more precarious; still the Repub lican managers are urging them to come. Not one in twenty of these pauper negroes has a dollar; ragged, filthy, lazy and im provident, they come to live upon public or private charities, or to the beggars and pap ers, as they did in Kansas. The “red hot R epublican press has determined to Jend its aid in the infamous proceeding, and their agents are at work in the South. They, like the Republican papers, are also “red hot.” The pauper negroes are coming with their filth, rags, disease and vermin. They went to Kansas to die. They came to Indiana to vote—to beg, to be taken care of, or starve. The working people are getting their eyes wide open on the subject, and the Republican conspirators will yinu out at last that the best laid plans of neice and men do not pan out well sometimes. THESE MISGUIDED NEGROES HAVE BEEN BROUGHT TO INDIANA—WHERE THEY ARE NOT WANTED—FROM STATES WHERE THEY CAN LIVE IN COMFORT. THEY ARE COMING TO BE SUPPORTED BY CHARITY, COMING TO STARVE, TO DRAG OUT A MISERABLE EXIS TENCE, BECAUSE THE REPUBLICAN PARTY WANT TO USE THEM FOR VOTING MACHINES. THE MEN WHO ARE ENGAGED IN THE BUSI NESS ARE MORE CRUEL THAN DEATH. THEY ARE MEN OF THE SAME TYPE AS THOSE WHO OBTAINED THE CONFIDENCE OF THE SOUTH ERN NEGRO TO ROB THEM OF THEIR LAST DOLLAR THROUGH THE AGENCY OF THE FREEDMAN’'S SAVINGS BANK. THEY BELONG TO THE CLASS OF MEN WHO FOR YEARS KEPT THE SOUTH IN TROUBLE, BY EXCITING THE PREJUDICES OF THE NEGROES AGAINST THE THE WHITES, THAT MURDER MIGHT VITALIZE THEIR BLOODY SHIRT HARANGUES. THEY ARE NOT IMPLACABLE ENEMIES OF WHITES AND BLACKS, AND THEIR NEFARIOUS SCHEMES SHOULD BE EXPOSED. THE ONLY EXCUSE FOR THEIR COMING. The people of Indiana, Republicans as well as Democrats, have very clear perceptions with regard to,the importation of Southern pauper negroes into this’ State. The cry about the necessity for more farm hands is as vile a falsehood as was ever told. Nowhere in the State, from the Ohio river to Lake Michigan, has there been'’'a call during the past six years for farm hands in excess of the coal supply. Instead of more laborers ‘be ing in demand, there have been hundreds of idle men pleading for work which could not be obtained. The negro immigration business is a vicious, partisan proceeding from first to last. ‘It is cruelty to the negro, who is not wanted in Indiana; and it is no less a stinging injustice to the white laborers already here, and who are having a hard time of it to get a living. The movement was inaugurated by a set of white and black scamps in the em ployment of Republican conspirators, for the purpose of increasing the Republican ‘vote in 1880. . . . THESE PARTISAN FREEBOOTERS CARE NOTHING for the welfare’of the laboring people of In diana, or the black paupers of the South. They are willing to sacrifice both if thereby the Republican ‘party ‘of Indiana can in crease its vote.. They are siding the in crease of the negro population’of Indiana. They are willing that the white labor of In diana shall be brought into direct competi tion with negro labor. They know if these Southern pauper negroes will work at all, that they can be hired at wages upon which no white man could live decently or “com fortably, still they are anxious to subject the white workingmen of Indiana to the humili ating and degrading competition” with pau per negroes of the South, who are to be fought here by subscription, and maintain ed, as in ‘Kansas,‘ by private or public char ity, and this is to be done to increase the Republican vote of the State. The laboring people of Indiana have watched the exodus, and if the Republican party makes anything by it they will,be welcome to all it can gain. THE NEGROES WHO WERE ENTICED to Indiana are poor, ignorant, and in numer ous instances,vicious. Paupers at home, they could still, find subsistence, for the cli mate “is “more genial and their necessities more easily supplied. On reaching Indiana, it was readily seen they must at once be pro vided for, or they starve and freeze. To go to any country and ‘bid: for emigrants for INDIANA, FROM THY PAUPER POPULA TION, TO RANSACK THE SLUMS FOR THE LAZY, THRIFTLESS AND VICIOUS CLASSES, WOULD BE REGARDED UNIVERSALLY AS AN OUTRAGE. But THIS IS JUST WHAT THESE REPUBLICAN FANATICS AND KIDNAPPERS HAVE DONE. Not a NEGRO HAS A DOLLAR TO BAVE HIM FROM PERISHING.’ Upon their arrival they had to be taken in-hand and provided:for; homes must’ be had; employ ment must be‘furnished;’ food, fuel, shelter and clothing s had. to be supplied . And all this must be done promptly and continu ously. Once her, the negro, if he will work at all, is not a focliow to name the price. He is in the custody of miscreants who’ will rob him of his earnings just‘ as the' Republi can scamps-robbed:---him through the agency APE Leecapegta ae of. the Freedman’s saving bank.. WORK THAT A WHITE MAN WOULD DO FOR A DOLLAR THE PAUPER NEGRO ‘WILL BE REQUIRED TO ‘PERFORM FOR A QUARTER OF THAT AMOUNT, AND THE ‘WHITE LABORER WILL BE COMPELLED TO LOOK ON IN SI LENCE AND SEE HIMSELF AND THOSE DEPENDENT UPON HIM ROB BED OF THE ‘MEANS OF SUBSIST ENCE THAT THE REPUBLICAN PAR TY MAY GAIN A FEW VOTES IN 1880, AND THAT THE SOUTH MAY BE EMBARRASSED BY THE WANT OF LABORERS. Democrats have opposed this whole business of forcing mendicant Southern negroes into this State. The move ment is in direct conflict with the interests of the working people of the State, and op posed to the welfare of the negro as well. For negroes from the South to come to Indi ana to support themselves, and of their own free will, in one thing—to be forced here to voter the Republican ticket, and to be sup orted by private or public charity, is a very Afferent t fhing. In opposing such an exodus the Democratic party has been consistent, and the more the subject is investigated the more the people will be convinced that the Democratic party is actuated by prudent con siderations. ‘RED' DOUGLASS’ OPINION OF THE EXODUs. ‘During’ the time the exodus was in’ active operation, Frederick Douglass, the leading colored man of the country, now Marshal of the District of Columbia, wrote as follows: I CAN NOT BUT REPEAT THE OP INION ALREADY OFTEN EXPRESS ED—THAT ALL ORGANIZED EFFORT AT THE NORTH: DESIGNED TO PROMPT AND PROMOTE FURTHER STAMPEDE OF THIS SORT SHOULD BE DISCOUNTENANCED. THESE POOR PEOPLE SHOULD NOT BE DE LUDED AND ALLURED. FROM THEIR HOMES, ESPECIALLY AT THIS SEASON OF THE YEAR, BY PROMISES EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, OF PECUNIARY AID. I SEE NO WISDOM, BUT MUCH FOLLY—NO GOOD, BUT MUCH EVIL—IN BRING ING TO THIS CITY MULTITUDES OF THESE PEOPLE, UNDER THE IMPRESSION THAT WHEN THEY REACH HERE MONEY WILL BE RAISED AND FURNISHED THEM TO PAY THEIR TRAVELING EX PENSES TO THE NORTH, THE WEST OR ELSEWHERE. THERE ARE HUN DREDS AND THOUSANDS EVERY WHERE READY TO RIDE ON RAIL ROADS AND TO VISIT DISTANT CITIES IF ASSURED IN ADVANCE THAT THEIR RAILROAD FARES WILL BE PAID, AND THAT FOOD AND SHELTER WILL BE PROVIDED FOR THEM. THE SECOND REPUBLICAN SCHEME TO SWIN DLE THE NEGRO. When Republican rascals concocted their Freedman’s Savings bank scheme, for the pur pose of robbing the negroes of their small earnings, there was about the proceeding a deliberate devilishness unparalleled in the history of knavery; but this essential villain sinks to fathomless contempt compared with the infernal cruelty of the Republican kid nappers who are engaged in decoying the auper negroes from the South to Indiana. tese whe eated negroes are absolutely pau pers, without money, provisions or seasonable clothing. They are, from the first, objects of charity, and must be supported at private or public charge. They are the victims of deceptions which, for base purposses and re gardless of consequences, defy description. They come—say the knaves who enticed them away from their homes—to work. But EVERY DAY'S WORK THEY OBTAIN IS JUST THAT MUCH DEDUCTED FROM THE WHITE MEN OF INDIANA WHO ARE DEPENDENT UP ON THEIR LABOR For SupporT. THE PLEA ‘THAT THERE IS ANYTHING CONNECTED WITH THE EXODUS OF SOUTHERN NEGROES TO IN DIANA THAT BEARS ANY RESEMBLANCE TO HONEST, PRUDENT OR ADVISABLE IMMIGRA TION IS KNOWN TO BE A MONSTROUS FALSE HOOD THE REPUBLICAN CONSPIRATORS, BLACK AND WHITE, WHO ARE WORKING UP THE EXODUS ARE DOING IT FOR THE PUR POSE OF INCREASING THE REPUBLICAN VOTE IN INDIANA, AND FOR NOTHING ELSE. To accomplish their purpose they are subjecting their, black victims to hunger, cold, sickness and death, in a strange land, among strang ers, where they are not wanted, and where their labor is not in demand. The Republi can scalawags who are carrying forward the business have no sense of right—neither sym pathy nor conscience. They want the ne groes’ votes in 1880, regardless of the suffer ing their scheme entails upon the negroes or white men. Fortunately, a great many honest Republicans begin to comprehend the condition of affairs, and are setting their faces against the whole infamous business, THE BOTTOM FACTS OF THE EXODUS. That the pauper exodus was from the first manipulated by a set of soulless Republican deanups, black and white, there can be no question. . That they lied to the negroes is a fact that admits of no controversy. And the negroes now in Indiana, if permitted to testify, would make the infamous proceeding so plain that even Republicans would be compelled, in the interests of humanity, to denounce the piratical kidnappers, with un measured severity. These Republican ras ts have gone among the ignorant Pauper egroes of North Carolina, and told them that they were wanted in Indiana as farm hands. That was a lie, and the rascals knew it. They told them that they could at once secure good homes, with gardens, that they would bhe furnished with a cow, and would receive $2 to $3 per day as wages, in cash. These statements were lies—known to be lies at the time, and proved to be lies since the poor, half-naked, half-starved paupers arrived in the State. The Republican kidnap pers,in the employment of Republican con trators and knaves, made contracts with railroads to ship the paupers over certain lines at so much a head, receiving a bonus for their work.— an exhibition of mercenary cruelty equalled only by the negro stealers who formerly entrapped the namies of Af rica in their jungles, and shipped them to the most favorable markets. These con tracts to ‘ship pauper negroes to Indiana, were fulfilled when the Negroes reached In diana. Here they were dumped and left to the cold charities of the world, and their suf ferings have been terrible. Sick, half-clad, without money or food or shelter, they were forced into church buildings and shanties and pens, to live or die, as fate might decide. One poor fellow with a wife and two children, a negro of the better sort, who paid his way through, after three weeks’ search for work, was able to find employment at $1 a week; another poor deluded pauper was able to get $ for s.monthjs. work in the country, and returning to his home, s‘place of squalor, he found his wife in the pangs of child-birth, ‘and soon after the infant lay cold and stiff in the embrace of death—frozen to death be cause there was not a particle of clothing with which to shield it from the blasts of winter. THE WHOLE BUSINESS IS A PANORAMA OF HORRORS, GOTTEN UP TO FILL INDIANA WITH REPUBLICAN VOTERS FOR THE CAM PAIGN OF 1880. It is impossible to exaggerate the infamy of the whole proceeding, from first to last. It is unparalleled wickedness—a crime against humanity, and fully illustrates’ to what profound depths of depravity Repub lican readers will descend to gain a partisan triumph. No one objects to ‘legitimate im migration to Indiana, but this exodus from North Carolina was simply fiendish. It was conceived in false hood; it has brought forth a progeny of cru elties, of sufferings, of villainies that defy ad equate description; and these facts we con clude will be brought out before the investi gating committee. Senator Voorhees by bringing about this investigation deserves the applause of the country. ~He has done his State a great service, but he has done the poor deluded blacks of the South a far greater service. Facts have been submitted to a candid public that have brought into haggard prominence the deep damnation of the Republican scheme that will fill the land with hurt. THE PHILLIOSOPHIC VIEW OF THE MOVEMENT. The exodus of the negroes of the South to Northern States is in direct violation of ev ery principle and law which regulates and governs the migratory movements of the human species. More than this, it is in direct conflict with the instincts of bird and beast. Subject the movement to the severest analy sis, and the discovery will be made that the Southern negroes who are now seeking homes in the Northern States have been the victims of the most infamous falsehoods, and have been enticed away from a country where their services were in demand, where the climate is suited to their comfort, devel ment and longevity, to a country where their condition can by no possibility be im proved, and where it is made, by circum stances beyond their control, indefinitely worse. The most intelligent negroes of the the country, ex-slaves and free born, unite in declaring the exodus to be vicious in all regards. THE SOUTH IS THE NATURAL HOME OF THE NEGRO. In the North he is out of place. To say nothing of race prejudice, the North is not the session that invites negro immigration. It is a well established fact that since the war the condition of the Southern negro has steadily improved, THoUsANDS OF THEM ARE NOW LANDED PROPRIETORS, AND CULTI VATE THEIR OWN ACRES; AND IT IS FUR THER ESTABLISHED THAT THE MORE INTEL LIGENT SOUTHERN NEGROES DO NOT PROPOSE TO EMIGRATE, THE INDUSTRIOUS, THRIFTY NEGRO FINDS THE SOUTH THE BEST PLACE FOR HIMSELF AND FAMILY. THOSE WO ARE PERSUADED AWAY ARE THE LAZY, ‘THRIFTLESS, PAUPER CLASS, WHO LIVE FROM HAND TO MOUTH; AND THIS LATTER CLASS ARE EASILY PERSUADED TO,ABANDON THEIR NATIVE COUNTRY BY REPUBLICAN CONSPIR ATORS, WHO WANT TO USE THEM FOR PARTI SAN PURPOSES, REGARDLESS OF THE SUFFER INGS THEIR INFAMOUS FALSEHOODS INFLICT. ‘The laws of emigration demonstrate the fact that people emigrate from countries over crowded, where the means of subsistence are precarious, to countries less populous, where the means and opportunities for subsistence are more favorable. When a movement is made in violation of this law, the reasons ‘underlying it and promoting it, are, as a general proposition, vicious, ‘and the design is to subserve some ‘purpose in itself criminal. But when those who inaugurate such movements of people seek out the pauper class, the ignorant and depraved, the wise and thriftless vagrants, they become to all intents and purposes the ‘enemies of society, and should be dealt with as felons. That the Republican rascals who are now engaged in bringing pauper ne groes from the South to Indiana, their aiders ‘and abettors, are in all regards the enemies of not only their negro victims, but of the white citizens of Indiana, facts clearly demontrate. They are bringing these pauper negroes from ocalities where their labor is in demand to other localities,» where their labor is not wanted.’ They are’ bringing them‘ from States where the population is sparse to where it is more dense. They are bringing them from States where the climate is more favorable for their health and comfort, to one where they must endure grey suffering. They are bringing’ them from States’ where the soil is as fruitful and its products as abun dant, and the means of subsistance under any circumstances as readily obtained, as in In diana or any other Northern State. Hence it is clear that those who are engaged in en ticing the negroes from the South to Indiana are doing it, not for the good of the negro, BUT FOR THE PURPOSE OF HELPING THE REPUBLICAN PARTY to gain a triumph in 1880.
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Elkhart Democrat
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Fri, May 14, 1880
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