Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1879-04-23
Washington Letter,
Washington, D, O., April a. 1879
lFIom our regular correspondent

has doubtless been insligaled by do
signing persons, aud will work injury
TO three classe.-to the Southern
planter, who will lose the labor he
needs TO the black emigrant himself
whose condition after his migration
will be worse than before, and to the
western settler, TO whom the Influx
viii be an unmiliga,ed nuisance IN
Kansas, which seems to DO the pres
enl object OF this migration, there ~
no market whatever for the klha OF
labor for which these negroes are w.
Ninety.nOo In the hundred OF Kansas
farmers are owners Of but 100 to S2o
acres 81 land, and do all their own
work. II IL safe TO say that mol one
IN fifty Of these qulck'moving' alert
and Woodworking men would nave
the average negro around and In the
way at any pHct, Those who employ
labor At all In the region moth Of Ar
kaasas, do not want the unskllled
kind. They are men who use steam
plows, who plant and cultivate with
horses and drills, who reap aud lh'esh
with machinery, and who want labor
ors Of an entirely different sort from
the ignorant negroes who ore Hooking
lhi,hcr. These viii inevitably settle
In the towns, where they will hnddle
in saualor and lnziness, and will really
be burden on tho community. The
only place where they arc needed, OF
where they will be productive self
sustaining and useful, is on the south
crn plantations, where they are used
to the kind of work required They
are altogether too dull and lazy TO
suit Yankee farmers, II Senator VIM
dom gets fifteen or twenty thousand
negroes into Minnesota he will be apt
to get more curses than thanks from
his constituents; but if he will take 0
few thousand out of Washington the
people here, who now have them 10
support, will certainly not complain
The Radical plan Of colonizing them
in the states Of Indiana, Ohio and
New York in sufficient numbers to
carry those States next year, is a
scheme worthy Of its origlna'ors'
g The late Senator Morton was the IN
Y yertor of this method of carrying
, elections, and made it tolerably sue
ces ,ful in a few instances where ms
q personal fortunes were concerned. lie
carry n Presidential election in that
way, however, may prove an expeh'
siye and troublesome undertaking. IL
g would certainly seem that these poor
ignorant blacks, had been duped fa'
3 enough and long enough in carrying
out the schemes of unprncipled Rad
ical politicians.
). Not very long ago Senator Sauls
n bury leveled Senate resolution a
:, John Sherman, asking about the re
:, funding of the national debt and tn
+. amount ct public money deposited il
national banks since March, 1877
N Whence it is inferred that John ha
il found somewhere loophoIe in IT,
+. Senatorial inquiry which lets HIM gu
ii on the main subject for the present
# These governmental repositories us
f. Government money free OF expense
is and deposit bonds with the nations
=. treasury as security, on which the
W draw interest. Perhaps this is q
a right. But Johns pet bank, the Firs
!, National of New York City, draw
interest on two sets Of bonds at tn
same time, one Of which stands as ST
- curity for the other. Now there al
Sc some people who believe this is ne
e. right, especially as that bank has, in
in few months, cleared nearly twice
tn much money as its cash capital
at $780, 900 amounts to.
n. Business in Congress IS movin
ire slowly. The discussion in both house
Oh progresses with some earnestness, h'
10 there is no sort of question about tt
he final passage of both appropriate
nd bills exactly as the Democrats hay
hrs prepared them. There is, howeve
en- some doubt as 10 what will follow.
'ur am inclined to think Mr.. Hayes W
sign the army bill. There is no re
ar, sonable or consistent ground upt
he which he can do otherwise. M
*. Ladd got in his financial bills c
'as Monday, but, owing to fibusterir
he Of the Republicans, did not get the
IS referred. 1t is generally uuderstoe
he that ,be Banking and Currency Coz
ly !; mittee will take them from The pc
ear ton box and report them. That is
OF lew dodge suggested by Alexand
a A.. CoooLor r,,l