The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-29
THE NEGRO EXODUS.
~ur RADICALS ATTEMPT TO ORGAN.
CAME A NEW FREEDMEN's
RUREAH.
now negro substitutes were Cheated ny
Massachusetts Bounty Brokers.
rspeelal Correspondence Of the Democrat

NuDdAv'S DEMOCRAT lnA IsbatthA utSlBH iyiHh
at the bottom o.
THE PREVAILING ETHIOPIAN EXODUS,
i supposed that two or three weeks ut least
would elaRse before the things / had pointed
ont would be developed III measures before
Congress. hut, In point of fact, the conspira-
tDrs showed their hands before tho copy Of the
DEMOCRAT in which my expose appeared had
time to get here In course or mail.
INGALLS,
In the Senate and Garfield In the House both
introduced bills yesterday, authorizing the
Secretary Of War to issue rations and other
wise relieve the wants of tho eolored Migrants
now congregated at Mt. Louis, Kansas City
and other points OF en- route thithar from va
rious localities In the South.
This confirms the view which | originally
took Of the matter and which was based not
less upon information obtained by personal
inquiry than upon the natural topic Of the sit
uation Primarily the design is to produce
discomfort and promote disorder among the
colored people La all the Southern States. with
the manifest object Of
KEEPING THE NEGRO BEFORE THE COUNTRY
as an issue on the one hand and OF alternating
him from his white neighbors on tho other.
None Of the infamous and desperate wretehes
here ut Washington who planned this moye-
ment and who are now busy melting tt
mean the BIaines, GarAelds and their gang
have any use for the negro except as q means
to an end. II they can keep themselves In
power by keeping the negro In misery they
are rsatislied. IT Is all-important that the NO
groes of the South should know whom they
are dealing with, and what they have to ex-
meet az an outcome 30 all this devilment.
The gang OF white villains here at Washing
ton manipulating this SO called exodus" are
the same horde of thieves who first robbed
the government through
THE FREEDMEN BUREAU,
and then tiched the hard-earned pennies Of
the negroes themselves through that grand
pocket picking enterprise called the Freed
mems Bank.
The bills which have been introduced In
Congress ostenAibIy for the relief Ut the negro
emigrants are In reality designed as the
foundation or framework OF
NEW FREEDMEEs BUREAU,
nothing more, nothing less. Simply con
triyance to enable that same old horde Of
Radicals torob the government some more In
the name OF the Negro.
The eolDred people themselves will never
get ten cents on the dollar of any money or
supplies that might be appropriated for their
oBtensible benefit. They ought by this time
to begin at least to understand the char
acters II they cannot comprehend the .pnr--
poses of these Radicals who have lived
by deceiving them and thriven upon their
misery for the last fifteen wears. From the
time when Massachusetts, used to send boun-
ty brokers 10 the lines Of the Union forces to
present moment, the history Of the dealings
Of her people-or the Radical portion thereof
with the negro has been one uninterrupted
tale 81 deceit, treaehery and robbery on one
side aud Ut suffering, misery and wrong on
the other. The Massachusetts
BOUNTY BROKERS
used to enlist negroes when recruits for the
Federal army commanded honnties of from
500 to $1,000. They would give the Negro
800 down md promise to give him the bal
ance as soon az he was mustered into the ser.
vice. But rs soon rs 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 500. !
remember
ONE CASE or THE KIND
III particular. Tn the winter OF 1868 Cd an
agent came to Norfolk. w., then occupied by
d Federal force under Gen. Vogdes, and began
recruiting negroes ia fill the quotas OF severa
townships adjacent to Fall River. The bonnt,
offered was $500 per head. was at that time
on detached duty from my command, and was
acting provost marshaFs recorder under Capt
Bill Sage. OF the Twentieth New York Cav
airy. special deputy provost marshal Tor the
Department Of Virginia and North Carolina
The special duty OF Capt. Sage WAS to arrest
and prosecute offenders against bounty laws
and this brought me into intimate cognizanct
OF the operations OF the Massachusetts
agents. Well, In course Of time complaint
was made that this particular agent was do
fraudinE recruits, and, upon investigation
he was relnanded to await court-martial. Ht
was clergyman. or rather 9 student for ths
ministry DIT Middletown Wesleyan Universi
ty, and had been selected for this particular
duty, no doubt on the ground that whatever
thieving he might do would be done In the
name oil the Lord. Amen.
The testimony as taken by Capt. Sage ant
recorded by me showed-and 1t was mainly
the testimony Of the victims themselves
showed that this Rible-thumping thief from
New England had enlisted seventy-six re
crnite part Of whom were booked for thu
Fifth Massachusetts Cavalry and part for thu
Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fitth 1nfantry-all col
ored regiments, as Is well known Almost
without exception these recruits We're refu
gees from the Black water region OF Nirginif
and the Chowar country In North Caroline
In a Massachusetts, preacher as they Woult
i'm the Angel Gabriel himself. Upon enlist
ment they received each 800 and q promise
that tho remaining $3.50 would be Forthcoming
Adiutant Generals office to show that they
had been properly accredited to the
quota Of Massachusetts,, Well, q
soon as the negroes We're enlisted they were
taken away liz transports. some to Fort Pow
hatan and others to Morris Island Charles
ton where, of course, they would never SCI
the Massachusetts preacher or their S75t
again. The misereant was arrested Just as
he was getting ready 10 leave for the North
having .'tillsd the quotas Of his townships
His papers, which were seized, private GORE
sponaanee and all. showed that when he lief
Massachusetts there was bounty fund fatset
by the townships and placed to his credit ~
recruiting agent Of SCI 900, in one Of the Eat
River banks; that he had drawn altogether
$500, OF which sfa00 was for his own persona
expenses, leaving $500 to represent TIN
amount paid rs bounties to the seventy-sly
negro recruits he had enlisted: that he still
had credit of S55.sno In the bank, while HI
held receipts from effrH one of The recruits M
had enlisted for the fatH amostat OF the 500
bounty.
Most of these receipts-in fact, as remem.
Der, all except three-were signed with \
mars MARKS. Saps. Sage tpok the testimony Q,
Iaem swore that he never had seen the paper