The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-05-14
NEGROES In KANSAS.
Condition of the Colored Emigrants
from the South i'm Wyandotte.
Those who Are Working Up This Move
ment, and Why They Are Doing It.

ment, ana why Iney ARC DVihS ~.
TRICKS TO DECEIVE THE IGNORANT.
Especial Correspondence OF the Democratl
KANSAS CRY, Mo-, May 10.
Mayor Overstolz, OF st. Louis, Mr.. Stod-
dard, OF the Third National Bank, and
Mr.. Sells, OF the Anchor Line, provided
me with letters Of introduction to Mayor
Shelley and others here, who have entered
into the spirit OF your enterprise and
are making every possible effort to assist In
carrying out your views. arrived at noon
to-day. and Immediately Acting Mayor Mr..
Bullene carried me to
wYANDoTTE
to have an interview with the negroes there,
found about one hundred and fifty negroes
quartered there, and many OF them very home
sick and anxious to return: but the clamors
OF parties interested In keeping them there
influence them to remain, or stiffen their de-
sire to 90 farther into the interior. Many Of
those who are In Wyandotte tell the same
doleful story Of having been buIldozed by some
and cheated by storekeeper5 and employers
In the various sections from which they came,
and whether true or not, the narrowing tales
have had their effect on the people Of this and
various other sections OF the North. When
the appeal went out from
THE sELF-ooNsTITUTED RELIEF COMMITTEE
IN wYANDoTTE.
stating that these refugees were starving and
dying from cold and exposure, the great pulls
ing, sympathetic heart Of the people was
stirred, and In a short while money and sup
plies were sent for their relief. Then the
committee, composed OF broken-down politi-
clans and professional relief beggars, found a
bonanza and Immediately began the system
OF threatening and doing supplies to keep
the poor, innocent Southern plantation hands
from returning to where his heart and affec-
tlons urged him to go. So when these people
found that the DEMOCRATS mission is
to tell the true story and aid the negroes
to return to their old homes, when they
desire to do 30, my efforts met d decided
repulse from those who want to keep them
where they now are, and where they want to
distribute them.
this particular ID chiefly to distribute the new
citizens to certain precincts, where they will
OVERCOME DEMOCRATIC MAJoRITIEs.
But as the negroes will have to remain a
year ere he can vote, this policy seems to be
very foolish project, for the freedman is
location, or more probably die from pneu-
monia, as many have already. ere the term
Of his probation for naturalization. expires
to make him legal voter. To attempt to
met with prompt and decided estoppel on
the part OF the opposition. Another and very
material idea is that there are thousands Of
people In this section who are so thoroughly
radical that out Of their malice against the
South and everything Southern they do not
hesitate to do anything that will injure the
material interests OF that section. They pro-
claim In the pulpits, from the rostrums and
through the press, 80 that 1t echoes through
ing whistle Of bullets, that the people OF the
South are to man bulIdOzers, murderers and
everything that Is crued and wicked. This
has It's influence in the regions far away from
the reported theatre OF action, and the stO-
they 60 through the sluiceways OF hate.
Others become pecuDiarly interested In keep
ing up such objects and ideas OF charity. OF
this character are
THE LOCAL COMMITTEES,
who live off OF contributions sent for the re-
lief OF the distressed. As specimen trick
that the Wyandotte relief committee played
last Sunday will explain. They received
aDouI twenty Daggles anu calLiages, Will Ias nne
norses etc anu @ placeu a, hd.,osely - tby uresseu
thrnnoh the streats in view of the staring
crowds Of exodus negroes. Emissaries were
posted among the crowds to tell them that
driving were once moor and in the same eondi-
s tion as themselves then 1 but tn now ~ The they ~ were rch
and had fine horses and carriages and that all
new comers would doubtless have the same
good fortune. The poor deluded Southern
Immensely. INN i, '' "e-' -.pN ~'''0>N "'''' ''-''
The relief committee ride In fine carriages
we cannot learn Of their having disbursed
dnnaa As tho COMMITTEES daiIv roceive
mnnev and sunnlies tha anirnns Of their cnn.
dnct becone nes ppainahIv main and ernlains
whv thew do not, wish anv one tn Aid the
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