The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1879-04-24
Warrington Letter.

Washington Letter.
WASHINGTON, d. c., April Is, 1879.
One topic considerably discussed
here of late is the exodus of negroes
from some portions of the South to
Kansas and other Western States. 1t
has doubtless been instigated sby de-
signing persons, and will work injury
to three classes Southern planter,
who will lose the labor he needs; to the
black emigrant himself, whose condi-
ton, after his migration, will be worse
than before, and the western settler, to
whom the influx will be an unmiti-
gated nuisance. In Kansas, which
seems to be the present object of this
migration, there Is no market whatev-
er for the kind of labor for which
these negroes are fit. Ninety-nine in
the hundred Of Kansas farmers are
owners of but 16O to 800 acres of land,
and do all their own work. 1t ts safe
to say that not one in fifty of these
quick moving, alert and hard-working
men would have the average negro
around and in the way at any price.
Those who employ labor at all in the
region north of Arkansas, do not want
the unskilled kind. They are men
who use steam plOws, who plant and
cultivate with horses and drills, who
reap and thresh with machinery, and
who want laborers of an entirely differ
ent sort from the ignorant negroes
who are flocking thither. These will
they will huddle in squalor and lazi-
ness, and will really be q burden on
the community. The only place where
they are needed, or where they are pro-
ductive, self-sustaining and useful, is
on the southern plantations, where
they are used to the kind of labor re-
quired. They are altogether too dull
and lazy to suit Yankee. farmers. If
Senator Window gets fifteen or twen-
ty thousand negroes into Minnesota he
will be apt to get more curses than
thanks from his constituents but if
he will take q few thousands out of
Washington, the people here, who now
have them to support, will certainly
not complain. The Radical plan of
colonizing them in the States of Indi-
ana, Ohio and New York in sufficient
numbers to carry those States next
year, is a scheme worthy of its origin
ators. The Late Senator Morton was
the inventor of this method of carrying
elections, and made it tolerably sue
cessful in q few instances where his
personal fortunes were concerned. To
carry Presidential election In that
way, however, may pro*e an expen-
sive and troublesome undertaking. 1t
would certainly seem that these poor,
ignorant blacks had been duped far
enough and long enough in carrying
out the schemes of unprincipled Radi-
cal politicians. rQ ,s.ti s- -,
Not very long ago Senator Salisbury
leveled q Senate resolution at John
Sherman, asking about the refunding
of the national debt and the amount of
public money deposited in national
banks since March, 1877. An abstract
of Johns reply has been published, ,and
as nearly as common people can un-
derstand it, he has carefully lodged
the very point at which the resolution
aimed. He describes, with great and
superfiuous clearness, the manner in
which the national banks are used as
repositories, receiving and using in
ternal revenue collections until the
Government has need of them. giving
proper security for the same, and so
forth. But, although he gives the
names of a great many banks, with the
average amount of Government depOs-
its which they carry, the First Nation
al Bank of New York is not mentioned.
| Whence it is inferred that John has
found somewhere loophole in the
Senatorial inquiry which lets him out
on the main subject for the present.
The cases which he cites are wholly
unlike the case in question. These
governmental repositories use Cover
ment money free of expense, and de-
posit bonds with the national Treasury
as security, on which they draw inter-
est. Perhaps this is all right. But
Johns pet bank draws interest on two
sets of bonds at the same time, one of
which stands as security for the other.
Now, there are some people who be-
lieve this is not right, especially as that
bank has, in a few months, cleared
nearly twice as much money as its
cash capital of $6OO.OOO amounts to.
Now that Mr.. Sherman's report If
found to contain no mention of this
case, the former well grounded conclu-
sion is strengthened that there is some
thing in this direction which he wish
es particularly to conceal. And this is
precisely what Mr.. John Sherman
should not be permitted to do. The
whole facts are demanded and must be
had. 5000 - i-.-
Business in Congress is moving
slowly. The discussion in both houses
progresses with some earnestness, but
there is no sort of question about the
final passage of both appropriation
bills exactly as the Democrats have
prepared them. There Is, however,
some doubt as 10 what will follow. I
am inclined to think Mr.. Hayes will
sign the army bill. There is no rea-
sonable or consistent ground upon
which he can do otherwise. Mr.. Ladd
got in his financial bills on Monday,
but, owing to filibustering of the Re-
publicans, did not get them referred. 1t
is generally understood that the Bank
ing and Currency Committee will take
them from the petition box and report
them. That is q new dodge suggested
by Alexander Stephens, and if the
Speaker rules that it can be done, it
will cut off lot of skirmishing upon