The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-06-28
THE COLORED EXODUS.
A Lively Discussion Of the Cues
ton in the United States
Senate.
Senator Vest Exposes the Hate and
Hypocrisy Of Radical
Statesmen.

Statesmen.
| Mr.. Vest-Mr. President, Ia order to win
dictate the truth OF history by the facts, ant
| the real facts. In regard to the negro exodus
! venture at this late stage Of the debate tx
| inject slight amount Of testimony ia add
tion to that already given to the country b,
| the Senator from Kansas / live In the i'm
mediate vicinity Of that Senator live upoI
the borders OF the State Of Kansas; and Il
was upon my city. the place Of my residence
that this exodus from the Southern States was
thrown with all Its fury. / happen to know
personally something In regard to the true
inward history Of this remarkable movement
The Senator from Kansas has painted to llf
In glowing terms, as was done once before OF
this floor, the misery and the wrong Inflicted
upon the colored people OF the South. South.
ern men, armed with shotguns, rusty sabers
bowle-knives OF the most fabulous length and
feroclty, are paraded until the terrible pic.
ture drawn by the Scotch poet Tam OShan.
ter, OF the witchs den, sinks into insight
ficance compared with the terrible and mon.
strous picture drawn also by the imagination
| assert that 1t is simple and pure fancy.
aSSeIb. uelOEe fehu bHe evidence, tnaL the
negroes were induced to leave the South and
flee to Kansas under false representations
made to them that the government OF the
United States had provided an Arcadia flow
ing with milk and honey, filed with fat
opossums and accessible 'ooons, and no labor
every thlng that makes up q negroes Utopia.
They went there believing that Kansas was an
Ideal land In which there was sunshine and
eternal exemption from labor. I send to the
clerks desk 9 circular which received on a
late visit to the State Of Kansas. In the town
OF Wyandotte, from one OF the leaders OF the
negro exodus, cOlored man. who told me
with his own lips that this induced him to 20
to Kansas, and who denounced the miserable
villainy that had been perpetrated upon him,
Let the Secretary read that circular, which
was distributed throughout the South.
The chief clerk read as follows
[Strictly Private.l
ATTENTION CoLoRED MEM
OFFICE OF CoLoRED COLONIZATION SOCIETY. [
Topeka. Kan. February q. 1879. 4
Your brethren and friends throughout the
North have observed with painful soliettude the
ters. and are doing all they can TO alleviate your
miserfes and provide for your future happiness
end g.. prosI Gritty; President Hayes, by his
while the Democrats, who now have control Of
Congress. will seek to re-ensave you If you re-
main In the South, and to protect you from
organized By. the government to provide land
for each head Of family, which viii be- given
IN bodies 81 100 acres gratuttouslY. This land
proximity to Topeka. aud Is very productive.
Here there Is no distinction In society all are on
On EQUALITY Leave the land Of oppression and
LUXURIOUS p JONES. President.
Show this circular to none but colored men
and keep It's contents secret.
Mr.. Ingalls, pronounce that paper d
forgery, q fabrication, and fraud Invented
has been used to-day, and that statement Is
susceptible OF abundant proof. No such doc
ument as that ever emanated from Topeka or
from any part OF the State. The whole thing
10 simply secondary invention thrown out
for the purpose Of casting suspicion and Inn
putation upon the people Of my State and
others where these men have been welcomed.
In reply to 1t, and in reply TO the assertion of
the SENATOR frepa by TIC promise VI d lana
whBrH
Softer sums dispense serener light
AND m1lder moons imparadlse the night,
want to call the attention Of the Senator to
the declaration In those newspapers that
read, that are not denied, whose authority is
and that stand as reputable renre
sentatlves OF the Democratic party ia the
States OF Mississippi, Louisiana and Ten
nessee Look upon this picture and then on
that.
!, Mr.. Window the Senator does not be-
!ieye the statement made by hundred lead
Ing citizens OF st. Louis on this subject?
Mr.. Vest-I read that statement and know
how 1t happened to be got up; and since the
gentlemen has alluded TO il, take pleasure
q giving MIN information: In this very SEN
re Chamber, sitting within very few feet,
Ut the time, Of the Senator from Mnine, |
asked ex-senator Henderson, who was named
tlso as one OF the sgners Of that instrument.
2 regard to the truth Of the instrument how
le happened to sign 1t; and he said to me chat
a fhotb tr,x 4
ng personally about the facts, and he signed
t upon the request of political associates.
Notably Gen. John w. Noble, OF the city Of st.
louis, 8 most devoted partisan. That paper
vas got up, and charge 1T here, for political
purposes; and charge more that the men
whether they are here or elsewhere, who in
luced these negroes to leave their homes in
he South, where God and nature intended
hem to live
Mr., Window Where men will not permit
hem to live in safety.
Mr.. Vest-If the gentlemen would let the
egroes alone, they would stay there In peace
nd plenty; but for political purposes thew
@ to the South or send their emissaries there
2 teach the negroes that there is another
md where no labor will be required, where
eace and plenty are to prevail the whole
ear throughout, and they tell them If thew
emain in the South they are to be sold into
layery. and that this Congress proposes to
ell them into slavery
lrcular as 9 fraud and forgery. Sir, doubt
cry much the correctness Of that assertion.
state here that / obtained 1t from q negro
no said it was delivered to him. will not
further, and initiate the example of dis
nguished Senators on that side Of the cham
sr, and quote the testimony of these negroes.
arious reports have been read from By dis !
nguished Senators, In which field-hands at
70 South, semi barbarous negroes, took !
way the character Of the Southern people, :
10 stamped them as assassins and scoun-
els and murderers;. | will not emulate that
ample. Ii | did / have the testimony Of :
e leaders Of this negro exodus, who stated :
at they were induced to go to Kansas BY
majors on this floor, and that they were in :
iced to 60 there under false Representations /
o y sir, the Senator from Kansas says that
is picture OF mine In regard to the renra- !
ntatfons of an Arcadia existing In Kansas is I i
nply my own imagination. Mr. President. .
Is easy for the gentleman to denounce this T
'cular; 1t is easy for him to tell me chat il
a fraud and forgery Of Lycurgus 2. i
mes.
The Chief Clerk read as follows: :
PROTEST. OF THE PEOPLE OF wYANDorTE. K.u. Il
sAs, CONCERNING THE NEGRO IMMIGRATION n
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