The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1879-07-09

South, and to protect you from their de
signs, the Colonization Society has bee,
organized by the government to pro
vide land for each head of family
| which will be given in bodies of lG
acres gratuitously. This land is loca
ted in the best portion of Kansas, il
4 close proximity to Topeka, and is yer,
productive. Here there is do distinc
ton in society; all are on an equality
Leave the land Of oppression and come
to free Kansas. ~ I'D .t.
/ LYcURGUs p. JONES,
| President.
| Show this circular to none but color
ed men, and keep its contents secret
Mr.. 1NGALLs-I pronounce that
paper forgery, a fabrication and :
fraud, invented for precisely the
same purpose for which it has been
used to-day, and that statement is
susceptible. of abundant proof. Nc
such document, as that ever emana
ted from Topeka or from any part Of
the State. The whole thing is sim.
ply a secondary invention, thrown
out for the purpose of casting suspi.
cion and imputatio,, upon the people
Of my State and others where these
men have been welcomed. In reply
to it, and in reply to the assertion OF
the Senator from Missouri that these
men were beguiled away by the pro
mise Of land where
Softer suns dispense serener light,
And milder moons imparadise the night,
I.want to call the attention of the
Senator to the declaration in those
newspapers. that l read, that are not
denied, whose authority is admitted,
and that stand as reputable repre-
sentatives of the Democratic party
in the States of Mississippi, Louisi-
ana and Tennessee. Look upon this
picture and then on that.
Mr.. WINDoM-So the Senator does
not believe the statement made by a
hundred leading citizens of St. Louis
on this subject -
Mr.. ,VEsr-I read that statement
and | know how it happened to be
got up; and since the gentleman has
alluded to it, take pleasure in Civ
ing him information In this very
Senate Chamber, sitting within a
very few feet, at the time, of the
Senator from Maine, ! asked ex Sen,
ator Henderson,, who was named also
as one ofthe signers of that iastru-
lnent, in regard to the truth of Che
instrument how he happened to sign
it; and he said TO me that he never
saw the negroes; that he knew moth /.
ing personally about the facts, and
he signed il upon the request of pc
litical associates, notably General
John W. Noble, of the city of St.
Louis, a most devoted partisan. -
That paper was got up, and / charge
it here, for political purposes; and
charge more that the men, whether
they are here or elsewhere, who in
duced, these negroes to leave their
homes in the South, where God and
nature. intended them to live
Mr.. WINDOW Where mon will
not permit them to live in safety.
Mr.. VEsr-If the gentleman would
let the negroes alone, they would
stay there in peace and plenty; but
for political purposes they go to the
South or'send' their emissaries there
to teach the negroes that there is
another land where no labor will be
required, where peace and plenty are
to prevail the whole year throughout
and they tell them if they remain in
the South they are to be sold into
slavery, and that this Congress pro-
poses to sell them into slavery
The Senator from Kansas denounces
this circular as fraud and forgery.
Sir, | doubt very much the correct
ness of that assertion. / state here
that ] obtained it from q negro who
said it was delivered to him. I will
not 60 further, and initiate the ex
ample of distinguished Senators on
that side of the chamber, and quote
the testimony Of these negroes. Va.
rious reports have been read from by
distinguished Senator's, in which
field hands at the South, semi-bar-
barous negroes, took away the char.
acter of the Southern people, and
stamped them as assassins and
scoundrels and murderers. I will
not emulate that example. If l did
| have the testimony of the leaders
Of this negro exodus, who stated
that they we're induced to 60 to Kan.
sas by Senators on this floor, and
that they, were induced to 20 there
under false representations. Now,
sir, the. Senator from Kansas SAYS
that this picture of mine in regard
to the representations of an Arcadia
existing in Kansas is simply nv own