The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-04-12
The Negro Exodus From LOU
isiama.

IRON THBSb lbtTSittS glTueTlilS VI
the Mississippi river, has excited
public attention. For some weeks
past we have Noticed comments 81
this exodus. not only III the Louis
lama. hut il the northern and west
eriI press. Thousands Of eOlOIed
men, women and children have
gone mp the Mississippi rivertO st.
Louis. and thence to the m0rthwes,
tern States, and especially To Kan,
S;lS.
There has been a great deal OF
mystery about this sudden and
quite extensive exodus. especially
;sS the e0lnretl emiglants. on being
Intercepted, appear To ite unable
( 10 say where they are going, o. why
tiiey are leaving home.
OF course it WAS impossible 10
conceal the real ss;lIise and origin 0f
the exodus, and it turns out, aS al
wayS heretofore. that the southern
NEGRO has been made the dulte and
the victim Of radical villainy. The
sharp and lIeartIeSS leaders Of the
republican party, with an eye 10
next Years presidential campaign.
seeing the utter h0pelesslIesS ot.
wrenching Louisiana from demo
cratic control. have formed a colon
ization society for the purpose oi
throwing enough southern negroes
into doubtful ur closely contested
northwestern states, to secure those
states 10 the republican parry next
year. trusting that these imported
negroes, when brought into direct
contact with, and under the per
s0nal influence and encouragement
of, numerous white republicans, will
vote sOiIdiy the republican ticket.
Ut is reported that L. IS. Senator
Nindonl. 81 Minnesota, whose name
has recently been prominently men
TONED III CONNECTION with the l,reSi-
dency. is ut the head Of this culOn-
ZatiOm society. 1t is certain that
the Ilegnbes. Oh their arrival at st.
Louis, are at once taken III charge.
and sent free of' expense to Those
points where il is thought their
votes will do the republican party
the most good. lit is equally Ger
tain that these e0loTetl people have
been lured away from home by the
most palpably and cruelty false and
fraudulent p"etences. Their inva-
riai,le reply to questions is that
they are going somewhere where
they are TO be providedby the gov
eminent, Oi iii tilename of the gov
eminent, with lands, dwellings, and
at least temporary subsistence, free
Of expense, and with the simple
credulity oftle coiored race they
have swallowed these promises as
promptly as they did many years
ago the radical promises of forty
acres and q mule. Once domiciled
thousands of miles away from home
/ it will he simply impossible for one
in hundred OF them to pay the
expense Of returningIliere, and they
will have 10 make a virtue Of neces-
sitN, and die in IA strange land.
For the alIcontrolline necessities
OF the next presidential campaign,
we have no doubt the white repub-
Ilicans will make, until .NOremi,ei
1880, strenuous efforts to mitigate
the hufierillgs OF their helpless and
deluded Victims, and to keep up
Their easily excited hopes Of "a good
day coming; but their knowledge
that the antipathy ofthe white race
in the north, and especially i'll the
northwest, to thecolored race is ten
Thousand times stronger than ii
ever was in the south, their Iknowfl-
edge that tens ofthousands ofithese
4 poor yictimstof radical delusion will
die within three Wears from the kill
ling process Of acalimation, aud their
4 knowledge that they could not if
/ they would. and would NOT IF fbe,.