The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1879-05-14
THE NEGRO EXODUS,
TIE RADICALS ATTEMPT TO Or
CAME A NEW FREED
MEMS BUREAU.
now NEGRO SUBSTITUTES WERE CHEA-
TED BY MASSACHUSETTS,
BOUNTY BROKERS.
snecial Corresponlence n. O. Democrat.

April "a, 1879. )
When sketched in letter pub
lished in Sundays Democrat the Radi-
cal design lying at the bottom of
THE PREVAILING ETHIOPIAN EXODUS,
! supposed that two or three weeks at
least would elapse before the things
I had pointed out would be developed
in measures before Congress. Bat, in
point of fact, the conspirat"rs showed
their hands before the copy of the
Democrat in which my expose ap-
peared had time to get here in course
of mail. a
INGALLS,
in the Senate and Garfield in the
House both introduced bills yesterday,
authorizing the Secretary OF War to
issue rations and otherwise relieve the
wants OF the colored Migrants now con-
gregated at 81. Louis, Kansas City
and othor points or en- ronte thitheF
from various localities in the South.
This confirms the view which orig
inally took of the matter and which
was based not less upon information
obtained by personal inquiry than
upon The natural topic Of the situation.
Primarily the design Is to produce dis
content and promote disorder among
the eolored people in all the Southern
States, with the manifest object of
keeping the negro before tile country
ms an issue on the one hand and of al
ienating bin from bis white neighbors
on the other. None Of the Infamous
and desperate Rretches here Mt Wash
iDgton who planned this movement
and who are busy melting i'll mean
the Blaiues, Garfelds and their gang =
have any use for the negro exeeptlas a
means to an end. If they can keep
themselves 10 power by keeping tle
negro ID misery they are Satisfied
It ia all-important that the negroes of
the South should know whom they are
dealing with, and what they have to
expect as an ontconie 70 all this devils
meut.a - ~, asa ksas ksrssazsz.ss
The gang of white villains here ut
Washington manipulating this 30.
called nex0das" are the same horde of
thieves who first robbed the govern
ment through .
THE FREEDMEN's BUREAU,
and then fiiched the hard-earned PEN
MES ofthe negroes themselves through.
that grand pocket picking enterprise
called the Freedmen's Bank. :
The bills which have been intro
duced In Congress ostensibly for the
relief of the negro smigrants are in
reality designed as the foundation or
framework Of new Freedmen's Bu-
rean, nothing more, nothing less
Simply o contriyance to enable that
same old horde of Radicals to rob the
government some more In the name of
the negro. q % TEfES
The oolored people themselves win
never got ten cents on the dollar of
any money or supplies that might BIO
appropriated for their ostensibIe BEN
eft. They ought by this time to be-
gin at least to understand the cllarac.
tiers if they cannot comprehend the
purposes of these Radicals who have
lived by deceiving them and thriven
upon their misery for the last fifteen
years. From the time when Massa-
chusetts used to send bounty brokers
to the lines of the Union forces to re-
cruit negroes to gil her quota down to
the present moment, the history of the
dealings of her people--or the Radical
portion thereof the negro has
been one uninterrupted tale OF deceit,
trsachery and robbery on one side and
ofsBRsring, misery and wrong on the
other. The Massachusetts,
BOUNTY BROKERS
used to enlist negroes when recruits
for the Federal army commanded
bounties offsom 500 to $1,000, THEY
would give the negro 500 down and
promise to give him the balance az
soon as he was mustered in and could
not get out the bounty broker would
pocket the balance and the poor negro
never would see anything beyond the
first 800. remember SAYS.
ONE CASE OF THE KIND 70
in particular. Ia the winter of 1863,
ga an agent came to Norfolk, Va,
then occupied by Federal force an
der Gen. Vogdes, and began recruit
ing negroes to Gil the quotas of seve-
raj townships adjacent to Fall River.
The bounty altered was $500. per head.
/ was at that time on detached duty
from my command, and was acting
provost msrsllal's recorder under Cap
tain Bill Sage, of the Twentieth New
York Cavalry, special deputy provost
marshal for the Department Of Yir-
ginia and North Carolina. The spe-
cial duty of Capt. Sage was to arrest
and prosecute offenders against bounty
laws,and this brought me into init.
mate cognizance of the operations of
the Massachusetts, agents. We'll, i'm