The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1879-10-16

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. | them for his e3tIance fe., which had moi
been asked tor before. Through the determi
nation OF Wolff and the eBtr,atieS of hi,
wife, he was nna'ly goiien into town and
| cared for. Never Was horse or owner treated
with less courtesy than was Wolf aud Ban
der at Burlingame.
Gen. shermans Interview with nm
Exodus Negro.
Lawrence Journal.l
A gentleman who was an eyewitness 10
to the scene, gives US the following account
| OF an interview between Gen. Sherman and
an exodus negro at the Kansas Pacific
depot, in this city, on the occasion of the
recent Wait Of the President and General
Sherman:
After the Presidential party returned to
the Kansas Pacific depot, at North 1 aw-
renee, the train was detained half an hour,
awaiting the regular express train to pass.
Gen. Sherman was standing on the platform
OF the car contaioing the Presidential party,
smoking a cigar. Quite q crowd had COL
lected on the depot platform to get last
good look At the veteran General. Quite a
number of darkies were in the crowd col
lected. There was peculiar grin on the
Generals face, showing he was in for q lit
tie fun. Some of the darkies shook hands
with the General. Finally the General
remarked to one Of them:
| Are you an exodus da,key ,"
No san" said he, 'l'm from old Kahn
tuck"
Good State, said the General, "but /
want to see regular exodus darkey, a reg
ular Mississippi negro"
Another dusky citizen stepped up and
| took the General bv the hand.
Are You a Mississippi Garkey?"
| mo" said he, "I'm from old Nsrginy."
| Good State but haven't you any ex-
| odus darkeys here? heard that there
were thouss nds came to Kansas lately. and
| good many to Lawrence, and | haven't
| been able to see single one on my whole
trip to Kansas; what's become of them ?'
Finally black, raw boned negro, black
as midnight, heavy beard, iutermixed con-
sldersbly with gray, stepped up, and grasp
ing the Generals hand, gave it a terrible
shake, remsrking, as you Mr.. Sherman"
Yes" says the General. "Are you a
Mis.ississipi darkey?"
"ies, Sab, l am from Yaz,o, MISSISSIPPI
pi."
well, whist diiy,u leave them ior?"
| says Sherman.
VOL, l tell you, Mr.. Sherman; dey
wouldn't let US live down thar in D. ace
couldn't get no pay for our work, an dey
wouldn't let US vote"
"Ah, they wouldn't let you vote? Well,
you know you have right to vote, and
when any one interferes with you in the
free exercise of your political rights you
| must tell them TO stand back and leave
You alone"
But" says Exodus, "dsy go TO shoo.in'
de dsrkies when dsy open OAR heads about
| dar rights TO vote"
"Well," says the General, "you must
| stand up for your rights like men, and if
they oppose your rights as citizens, and
you can't get any protection from the
| authorities, you must, when the election
comes, go in squsds of thirty or forty to
the polls, take your vote in one hand and
pistol in the other, and deposit your vote,
and enforce your rights against mob law"
Cora massa, you knows nothin' about
it. Talk about darkey goin' to the polls
wild pisto'. Kill him suah white folks
wonld, and where is the black man goin' to
get de pistol, 70 like to know tell you
Mr.. Sherman, YOU knows no,hin' about
votin' down in Iszoo."
| YES" says the General, 81 know that; /
hsve been there several timee, ard if you
| will let those people down there know that
you are determined to have your political
rights, guaranteed to you under the consti-
tuition, and that you will stand up for your
rights, they will leave you alone they
bulldozs you because they know that you
darkeys won't fight TO the man for your
rights"
By this time the cid exodus got warmed
| up on the subject, and in loud voice re-
piled:
"Mr. Sherman, when You was down dar
/ observed YOU had lots OF white soj.rs wild
you, and de people down dar was feared of
You, and dey let you do as you pleased, but
rs Gbbed down in Yszoo fer twenty five
years, and snow. EN- better dan you does.
| and tell you dar amt no Iibben down dar
for q niger, and you don't coich no niger
what has any sense wild horse pistol. No,
| sir, suah."
The General replied: "Yazoo county
ia better for you to live in than Kansas.
| You can raise two bales Of cotton to the
scre, and eighty bGshels of corn, and the
climate sui;syou batter than Ksnsas; and
you must lie: your friends know in Yszoo
that they must stay there and fight for
| their rights, the same a. white men. We
white men would have no rights that any
body would respect, if We didn't fight for
them occasionally. When the people down
there begin to understand that you will
stand up like white men, and be sho, and
shoe, back, there will be no more trouble
about it. You are now in Kansas. 1t is a
good State, bul better for the white man
than the dsrkey, because you have TO con-
tend against Northern men, who have
more enterprise and get up and get You
dsrkeys can now 20 TO work, and get you
| little home, raise your children and send
them to school; educate them go tina, they
become intelligent citizen and you have
not missed 1t in coming to Kansss.
| would like 70 hear Of you exodus darkies
| all doing we'll here"
"Well, sah," says old E1., "dat's what
Pm doing. We all work we are used 10
dat. and sll We wants is to be free. Dey
it's vuss down in Mississippi now dan be-
| foh de wah"
By this time The express train passed,
ami "ali on bosru" vas beard. The Gen
srsl sgsin shook hands with old Ex, say
ing, odd man, you will do we'll in Kansas
| il you work as hard a. you did in Missis-
sirpi, and have the fall protection Of the
lac, and feel really that you we're made q
fie, nan by the war"
By this time the train moved of amid
the cheers Of the crowd, old Exodus re-
| msrkinR:
"If Mr.. Sherman wsnts to vote wid .
pistol in his hand, he can do 90, but dis
| old niger isn't such d-n old fool as de
General. / knows moah'n he does about
votin' in Yszoo. TAX abou: niger stand
in up TO- his rights wid . hot pistol
Golly. you'd see noah dead niggers in
Iazoo AFTER lection dan dere il bar on Mr.
Saerman's head. Eff white men don't fight
for nisgers' rights dere don for, euah an
sartin; yes, sah, suah -
With q smile upon everybody's face,
except old Exodus, the crowd dispeased.
A Holiday.
ST. LOUIS, Oct 9.-As has been the cus-
tom for many years, to day (Thurpday), of
the fair week has been observed - . holi-