Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-10-20
WASHINGTON LETTER.
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MONITOR

ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MoNIroR.l
WASHINGTON, Oct. IA, 1879.
In-spite of denials and violent efforts
to repress the movement on the part of
the Southern Brigadiers, the negro ex-
odus from the South is taking on grand
proportions again. 1t is going forward
steadily and quietly, but even more rap
idly than ever. Last spring it was con-
fined to Mississippi. Louisiana and sec
tions near the Mississippi River. Now
it extends to the Eastern Gulf and At
lantic States. Several colored agents of
organized colonies have been in the city
from North Carolina to obtain informa-
ton as to where best to 60. and they
report the feeling almost unanimous, in
favor of pulling up stakes and moving to
land of liberty. They report also that
the masters put every obstacle in their
way, and when they find colored men
preparing to leave them, they combine
and agree not to purchase his goods, thus
hoping to force them to remain and &C.
cept such usage as the whites choose to
accord But even these methods cannot
stop the movement. They unite it to
more determined effort. A letter just
received from Senator Window says that
he has information that many thousands
will go West and North this fall, and
next spring the exodus will be immense.
Re onel'a In IL, III n he better than
lent men of the South, and think see
in this movement the means of righting
the great wrongs which the freedmen
have suffered" Senator Window takes
great interest in the exodus, and is a
hearty friend of the colored race and a
champion of equal rights.
Buffers friends are making superhu-
man efforts to push his "claims" in
Massachusetts. 1t is laughable to see
the little measures to which they resort
One of these is the publication of an
edition of BANDS '.Life Of Butler" al
25c, or at l5c in quantities. The book
is published by Lee & Shepard, regular
edition for 81. 1t is really handsome
in execution, and very interesting. Tht
!, funny part of it is that it is most in
tensely union and anti ".secesh" in it
sentiments, gives glowing accounts o
: Buffers exploits against the rebels ant
, elsewhere, and yet the Butler democrat
are circulating it as means of promot
ing their cause! Truly politics make
strange bed-fellows. 1t would be inter
esting to know what the Brigadiers thin
of this way of running demoerati
campaign. But notwithstanding sue
means to demoralize the republicans the
= seem bound to win, and to beat Butler
. democracy and ALL Our informatio
from New York also continues encouras
ing, and at the committee rooms hel
: they predict the election of Cornell by
larger vote than both Robinson an
} Kelly will receive.
Three very important political cas-
will come before the present term of Il
Supreme Court now in session here,
which the validitv sf il -
amendments will be tested. The first
the case of the State of Virginia again
Judge Rives of the u. S. Court who r
moved into the Federal Court the cas-
of two colored men indicted for murde
on the ground that they we're preventt
from having any colored men upon Il
jury. The next is on petition f
habeas corpus in the case of the Hon.
: D. Cole, the judge of Virginia Sta
Court, who has been indited in the U.
District Court for alleged violation
-" the Federal Statute in refusing to p
;. colored men upon the jury in a ca
" where colored man was indicted f
murder. Then will probably be heal
> the case of Streander against the Sta
:, of West Virginia, which is that of a &C
- ored man who was convicted of Grin
:, under statute of West Virginia whi'
- expressly excludes colorcd men from &
jury, and is therefore adjudged to
" unconstitutional because conflicting wi
the new provisions of the constitution.
" LOGAN.
le THE VICTORY In OHIO.