The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-12-03

pose of the miserable Republican scamps
who enticed the negroes from the South to
Kansas was to injure the industrial enter
prises of the South. To accomplish this
purpose, the more ignorant of the negroes
were deluded by the most cruel falsehoods.
They were told that friends, employment.
lands and implements awaited their
arrival in Kansas. The poor creatures start
ed for the land of promise to meet priva-
ton, starvation. sickness and death. They
were paupers when they started. Their con-
dition grew steadily worse. and they found
out at last that they had been deceived and
victimizsd to crafty the implacable
hates OF Northern fanatics. Kansas at
last got tired of the negroes.
Some died, some managed to go back
to their Southern homes, and the exodus,
for the special purpose of reducing the crop
OF cotton and other Southern staples, came
to an end. 1t was in all regards iendish.
1t required party that could offer Federal
offices for perjury to concoct it. It proved
to be organized murder. The internal gang
who conceived the scheme were quite willing
that negroes should perish by hundreds, ii
thereby Southern planter lest his crop Of
cotton or sugar. The idea now is to &C
complish another purpose, or rather two
purposes. The desire to .injure the agricul
tural interests of the South is not absted.
The Lsngsdales and Martindales, in partner
ship with others equally regardless of the
wants of the South and of the North
as we'll as the welfare of the negro, are
still willing to subject the Southern
negro to the perils aud privations of en- ex-
odus to Indiana. il thereby few votes can
be secured for the Republican party. The
negroes who are now being enticsd to To-
diana are poor, ignorant and in numerous
instances viciou'. Paupers at home, they can
still find subsistence, for the climate is more
genial and their necessities more easily sup
Piled. On reaching Indiana they must at
once be provided for, or they starve and freeze.
To go to any country and bid for emigrants
for Indiana from the psuper population, to
ransack the tlums for the lazy, thriftless
and vicious classes, would be regarded uni
versal y as an outrage. But this is just what
these Republican fanatics and kidnapers are
now doing. No; a negro has a dollar
to save him from perishing. Upon
their arrival they have I, be taken in hand
and provided for; homes must be had; en-
ployment must be furnished; food, fuel,
shelter and clothing supplied. 1t must be
done promptly aud continuously. Once
here, the negro, if he will work at all, is not
in position to name the price. He is in
the Gust )dy of miscreants VINO will rob him
of his earnings just as the Republican
scamps robbed him through the agency
of the FreedmaD's savings bank. Work
that whits man would do for dollar the
pauper negro will be required to perform
for quarter of that amount and the white
laborers will be compelled to look on In
silence and see himselt and those dependent
upon him robbed Of the means of subsi.t-
ence that the Republican party may gain
few votes In 1880. and that the South may
be embarras, ed by the want of laborers.
Democrats opposed this whole business of
forcing menjicant Southern negroes into
this State. The movement is in direct con-
fiict with the interests OF the working people
of the State. and opposed to the welfare of
the negro as well. For negroes from the
South to come to Indiana to support them
selves, and OF their own free will, is one
thing-to be forced here to vote the Repub-
lcan ticket, and to be support I'd by private
or public charity, is very differeHt thing.
In opposing such an exodus the Democratic
party has been consistent, and the more the
subject is investigated the more the people
will be convinced that the Democratic party
is actuated by prudent considerations.