The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-10-29

to look this negro question squarely IN the
face-consider it in all Of its bearings, and
estimate, as best they can, its influence upon
the welfare OF the State. ~ The North
Carolina negroes who are to come to Indiana
to Africanize the State in the interest Of the
Republican party, are not wanted here. No
interest will be promoted by their coming,
and no intsfes. will be damaged by their
remaining away. t2.) 1t is not urged as
reason for the exodus that they can not find
work in North Carolina, If they desire it.
On the contrary, the fact is well understood
that there is work. wages, food, clothing
and shelter for them in North
Carolina. In Indiana there is
neither, except as it is furnished
by special arrangements with Republicans,
and at the expense of laborers who are
already here and who want work. 70 J 1t is
well understood that these North Carolina
negroes will have to be supported in Indiana,
as the exodus negroes are in Kansas, by
private or public charities, as there is no
surplus labor demanding their presence.
az 1t lie well known that they
are persuaded away from their
Southern homes for the purpose
of Africanizing Indiana in the interest OF
the Republican party; and those who know
the Republican party know that it would
silence the yells in hell or the halleluiahs Of
Heaven with its fiendish huzzas il it could
again curse Indiana with Republican rule,
though a hundred Thousand Southern me-
groes starved to death IN the accomplishment
of its damnable designs. Is } The removal Of
Southern negroes to Indiana where they are
not wanted, from North and South Carolina,
where they are wanted, operates adversely
to the interests of all parties. In Indiana
they are not wanted. If they come they
will dIsplace the laborers of the State, to the
extent that they work at all. If they dis
place those already here, it must be because
they work for lower wages. II they do
here, as present prices barely suffice to en-
able worklngmen in Indiana to subsist. The
introduction of pauper laborers only makes
the problem OF subsistence more difficult Of
solution. If the Southern negro does not
find work, the taxpayers must support him
or let him starve. If he does get work, tn en-
the white men of Indiana must starve or go
! to the Poor House, or become idlers and
criminals. t6-) Will Indiana working people
make these sacrifices, confront these perils,
subject themselves to these humiliations
for the purpose of helping the Republican
party to Africanzs the State with Southern
pauper negroes? Is it 50 important that
Indiana should be cursed with Republican
rule that from 1O, 600 to Is, 600 pauper negroes
should be imported for the express purpose
of voting the Republican ticket and be made
the objects of public and private charities to
keep them from starving to death? Does
such a movement promise we'll for white
or black, North or South? Is IL
not a deep-laid Republican scheme
a devilish programme throughout, to lure
the negro from where he is wanted, and
where he may earn an honest living, to 9
State where he is not wanted, and where, il
he gets work, it can only bs by degrading
white labor and making his means of a live
lihood more precarious? Viewed from any
and from every standpoint, the scheme ha:
nothing to recommend it to the favor of the
people of Indiana. 1t is from first to last
political movement designed to Republican
izs and Africanizs Indiana. 1t may succeed
but the best laid plans OF mice and mel
gang aft aglee.