Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1879-11-28
EXODUS.

result of the recent election in the State Of
New York, are making superhuman efforts
to retain the advantages they have thus Ear
gained, and at the same time strengthen
their position IN other States. they have
no scruples as to the means they employ to
accomplish their end. Like a gang Of pirates,
with certain death staring them in the face in
the event Of defeat, they are inspired with
the desperation Of despair The coloniza-
ton of Southern negroes in Kansas develop
ed deep laid scheme ON the part of the
Radical party to control the elections in that
State. Their object was as apparent as ii was
villainous in its consequences to the ignor-
ant, deluded negroes, seduced from their
happy, contented condition of thrift and in
dustry to emigrate to rigorous and in
hospitable climate, where they were not
wanted, and where there was no remunera-
tive occupation for them. The poor credu-
lous negroes will ever be the dupes of
Radical trickery and perfdy, and will serve
no better purpose than as stepping to
political place and emolument The people
should calmly look at the exodus scheme
without party bias or prejudice, for without
regarding its ultimate and disastrous conse-
quences to the peace and well-being Of the
country, It is enough to indicate now how
the elective franchise may be affected by it,
and Its most pernicious effects on the work.
ing men in the several States where the ex-
pertinent has been made. Radical emissa-
ries were sent into the Southern States with
seductive illustrated publications, picturing
a life of perfect ease and abandon, prairies
swarming with deer and buffalo and eve ~
crop growing in the widest, most luxurious
abundance. This cruel, deliberate deception
was stratagetic point ofunprincipled dema-
gogues. Among the unthinking, illiterate this
"stalwart" rase dc guervs engendered feeling
of false philanthrophy, and at the same time
gave color to the shotgun" theory.
The prime assault of the Radicals Is to be
made upon Indiana. The flood tide of the
Southern hegira is to be turned upon this
State with a view to the Presidential election
next November The Democrats with New
York and Indiana can elect their nominees
and have several electoral votes to spare, but
the Republicans must either carry one or the
other, and hence their eagerness to overcome
the majority given for Tilden and Hendricks.
There can be no limit to the rascality of men
SO anxious and determined to perpetuate
their power that they may thrive and fatten
upon the industries of the people. 1t is an
easy matter to pander to the passions, or
practice upon the ignorace and credulity Of
the negroes, but the Radical leaders in their
blind fury and desperation little realize the
consuming wrath which will follow the in
PRODUCTION of an extraneous, inimical ele-
ment into their social and political organism,
to foster like parasites upon the industries
of the working classes The whirlwind of
popular indignation and rage will sweep
them from the land. The bone and sinew
of the land-the producers and taxpayers
Of the country should be fully aroused to
the political significance Of this movement
and protestin unmistakable language against
this importation of moral pestilence and
misery into their midst to disturb the just
equipoise of political rights and immunities.
1t should not be tolerated by men who
bear the burden of taxation and maintain
the peace and dignity Of the State They
should erect at once an insuperable barrier
againt this devilish invention of Radical in
genuity, and shut their doors against the tide
of vice, ignorance and brutality by constitu-
tional enactment. The intelligent masses of
the great West will not be duped by this
scheme of political aggrandizementt to tamely
submit to its accomplishment. The negroes
should stay where they can do the most
good in promoting the welfare and pros
perity Of the country. These bold, unscru-
pulous eonspirators should be aware of what
they do, and cry a timely halt to the "Tro-
jan Horse" they are pushing forward against
the citidel of the peoples rights ere the storm
Of popular wrath sweeps them from the land.
Bloody inventions return to plague the in
ventor."