The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-12-17
Kansas Emigrants on the Back Track.
DeInded Negroes Brought from North
Carolina to Indiana. Tramping Over it
A Returning Squad---Deserted. PENN.
less, FOrlOrn.
HOW THEY WERE DUPED.

HOW THEY WERE DUPED.
Indianapolis Sentinel.
The desperate scheme of the Republican
leaders Tor changing the political complex
ION OF Indiana, at the election next fall, by
importing hordes of negroes from the South
/ under promise OF securing for them better
wages and homes, but with the real inten-
! ton OF leaving them to shrift for themselves
as soon as they get them within the State
has received back-set. Those who CONGO
ted this Infamous piece of political strategy
OF course, did not desire to be publicly
known in connection with its execution un-
TIL, TO use current yulgarism, ''they saw
how the old thing worked" They have
found this out more quickly than they an
tlclpated. L sing Langsdale, the fiery I'M
tanned postmaster of Greencastle, who is
willing to do almost anything for the sake
/ OF party success, as their tool they
planted 4 colony of negro emigrants
from North Carolina in Putnam coun-
( ty. The particulars of their arrival
there, and their confidence in the promises
made to them, have already been given in
/ the columns of the Sentinel. The poor peo-
/ pie have been even more basely deluded an
deserted than this paper predicted they
would be. The promises made to them
have been broken, and they have been left
/ to beg the means of subsistence from day to
/ day. All of them desire to return to the
homes they have abandoned, but of course
are destitute, disappointed and detected.
Some of them have started on the backward
tramp, soliciting contributions of food and
money.
LONGING To SEE THE COTTON FIELDS,
they have turned their faces toward the
sunny South, and have begun the long,
weary march. A Sentinel reporter yester-
I dav aucouufprad a Sunad Of - of than, xvbo
/ had just returned from Greencastle They
/ were thinly clad and suffering from hunger
/ Their names are e.. McMerrick Ned Wood
/ George Brooks, Haywood Edwards Solomon
| Wooten and Charles Reed. Three of them
! were quite young men, and walked the en-
/ tire distance. The others had contrived to
/ get ride on the cars. All were deeply dis
gusted at the hard treatment they had re-
ceived from their pretended friends and
knew not where to look for lodging place
/ or for food.
TALE OF DISTRESS.
/ G.. McMerrick appeared to have been Sc
/ lected by tacit agreement as spokesman for
/ the squad, and readily gave the Sentinel re-
1 porter an account of the Outrages that had
! been perpetrated upon them. The CONVEX
satiou was substantially liz follows:
1 Chow did you people happen to form the
notion of coming to Indiana"
''Well, you see we heard from de papers
about the exodus to Kansas Sam Perry,
| de school teacher, and Williams, a kind o.
4 preacher, read the papers about de lot o.
/ folks as was gwine to Kansas, and de better
times dat dey were havin' there. So we
raised some money and sent dem out to spy
out the country"
"Did they go is Kansas
"NO. Dey come back de last part of Dc
/ tober and tole US dot too many had gone to
! X INIT do 10 har InA lam n
could furnish ten thousan' of us wild homes.
/ Dey said de farmers had houses prepared
! for us. Moreover, dey would meet us at de
kyars (cars), to take us off to our houses;
dat de farmers of Putnam county would give
each of us a COW and calf, garden patch
and potato patch and $15 per month"
"Did your agents, Perry and Williams,
90 direct from Washington to Greencastle?'
Don't know. | spec dey was on de way
to Kansas, and met Langsdale and de other
fellers here"
"Wasn't your way paid by them"
! ODE people told dem perry and Williams)
dat whatever we paid out to get here would
be returned when we got here, De reason
de men wouldn't pay out de money for Us
To come here was because other men had
promised to bring us, and after havin' been
given money to do 50 did not do so. As
soon as we come de rest would be bought.
We had corn, hogs and fodder enough on
the land to do US till the mex spring. We
thought we'd better ourselves by given it
up to get enough to come out here and i'm
prove our condition, but ives ruined our
selves by listenin' to the worthless scamps.
We's here suferin, and our families is
down dere suherin'."
81 talked to some of your people over at
Greencastle the other day, and they told
me that their way had been paid here. Was
that so %
''Some as had enough to sell to raise
money to pay de fare, 49, from Goldsboro,
n. c., to Indianapolis. Oders paid de way
from GoIdsboro to Washington, and de aid
society sent dem on. Langsdale raised de
balance"
Glow were you received when you arrived
at Greencastle ?'
"When we fust got dere dey put us all in
somebody else's houses to feed us until we
got homes. Our welcome soon wore out
: when dey found dat dey had to keep us and
feed Langsdale gave us little, but
quit as soon as he found out dat we had
telegraphed to North Carolina for no more
of our friends to come. | went to Balm
bridge, Brazil, and all around, trying to get
work, but was offered only few cents day
above de support of myself l could do
better dan dat in North Carolina"
"Do all the people who came from North
Carolina wish to go back?'
Eyes, all. Every one will get back if he
can. Soon as | gets back l will make ar
rangements to get EN-"
"Do you all belong to North Carolina %
Eyes. We's all bred in North Carolina.
De coming week We 'pected great crowd
here, but none of 'em will come here.
North Carolina is de best place we can hear
of yet. If l had de means 1 would tele-
graph back deere agin tonight"
FRIENDS IN NEED.
"Of course you have suffered great
deal ?''
ewes been suferin' in Greeneastle ever
since ives been dere."
"What do you think of the Democrats ~
"When we got to Greeneastle we thought
dey was de only enemies We had, but after
ward found deg was our only friends. Don't
know what I'd done if ] hadn't found de
Sheriff and he give me somethin'to eat.
Here's q subscription paper we took round
Only one Republican would give us any
thing, and him only ten cents"
"What do you think of Langsdale,
now %
"Pse got no use for Langsdale. Hope
never see him again as long as de world
stands"
'1s this the first movement from North
Carolina p
eyes I was puffeckly satisfied until
got to Greencastle. Den 1 found de differ
ence"
"Did you hear of any circulars sent TO
North Carolina about Indiana ~
Eyes, and read 'em, too. 1 thought Use
comm to land a fowin' wild milk and
honey. From what was told US we thought
dat dere was no end to lie money here"
Chow long are you people going to allow
the Republican politicians to lead you
around and vote You like cattle?"
''De Republicans fool us no more. We
wouldn't come up here if we'd thought dey
only wanted us to vote. We sees it now"
"HaVe any of the Republicans done any
thing for you here p
'ENone of de Republicans or colored
folks have done anythin' for US. ! don't
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