The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-05-17

the idea took and spread like con6agratlon.
The late failure Of crops TO pay pro1lss W wa
used as arguments by the iDeendlaLles. , a.ra
to leave The agents OF political societies, saw
their opportunity and used it, Inc I9ss, .,zod
emancipation societies became ,.ss,.a,a
into life and used the plea TO gamer l,nmey9
wherewth to keep , thelF nea Thus they
PLAYED on the preiudices and sympathiIess %
the great Northern heart, anu appealeu w
the world for help for the destitute anu mow W..
trodden of the land. HadlcaI H. .n paangnst
saw in it means OF fostering capital agalnss
their political rivals, and thus every klnu ~
,lse waa made OF the machine and accident Jo
sIlbserve the various ends That tney souens
to accomplish In their numerous anu oeV'oue
ways. ... ,,aaa -, induca the
nag,nes to move were the following, when
also explains why they al wanted 70 coi 1 ~
Wvandotte City. The em1sSaries among the.n
said that the Sontherners were pia f,a,n th oe
freedmen. and worse than all, would RENAME
ali negro children INTO slavery, ana Wou,u
kill off all the parents and older negroes. nu
they told their credulous dupes tha1 tne,9
was but one way to save themselves, ana
Tint was In Immediate flight, and that they
must not stop until they got TO Wyandotte
Kansas. as that Is the first free soil on Whlcn
thew could set foot In safety, for MISSOURI
was and will be q slave State again. mus
bued with this idea, and while the scare was
IA him could not think or talk OF anything
but x
wYANDoTTE AND FREEDOM.
All OF them who have come here have con-
sta1ltly had 1t dinned into their ears that
their children will never be safe from, en-
slayement until they are landed and kept on
the soil OF freedom, and that Wyandotte IS
that haven SO they came hither by nun
dreds and accumulated 80 rapidly, tnat q
txf hn
required them to meet and dispose Of the
emergency. That they did so 10 business
| way and the only manner In which 1t could
be DONE ALI who could be Induced by our
friends here to return were sent pacK
promptly.
some. however, determined to try Kansas
and were sent out on
THE KANSAS PACIFIC RAILROAD,
their transportation being paid for at emil
grant rates. That this line did not send them
willingly have complete assurances, but az @
| matter OF business, and to avoid trouble,
suits, etc, the officials disposed OF the case In
as sensible and In as prompt o manner as pos
sible. The other roads and steamer lines also
had to do their best to get rid Of the elephant,
| and so the poor creatures were cast from posi-
to pillar, until they found death or other rest
hundred, chiefly old and children, died from
the effects Of
EXPOSURE TO RIGOROUS WEATHER,
| cold and want of food, to which they were ex-
posed before the organizations for relief took
| shape and got to work Many that ! have
| seen on the streets In Wyandotte show EVIL
denees OF the effects OF their exposure. They
cough and look haggard, and sloueh about in
| an INDECENT listless manner; and Ii anything,
the greater number Of the men are more
ragged and the women and girls somewhat
/ better dressed
/ With regard to
THE ANCHOR LINES CONDUCT
/ in the matter Of transportation, the truth Is
COL Seudder was threatened with lawsuits
that would have subjected him and the vast
property OF the company to very serious con-
they had to take all persons al their ernigrant
rates who applied for transportation The
company agrees to give free passage 10 all
who go back to their homes, and already have
transported over three hundred to the South
/ It those who came away had left In squads
4 OF twenty to fifty, do not think much at
tention would have been paid to the matter,
but when 1t came to hundreds leaving on
short notice, and in the usual gregariOus and
citable plantation negroes do In religion, poll
tics, dances and hegiras, we could not but be
walked up by the immensely OF the affair. and
| thus it occurred that the whole country was
shaken by the stampede.
There go daily through this city an average
Of from 1000 to 1000 emigrants from foreign
lands and the OvererOWded centres OF popu.
laton i'm the East, who seek and make homes
in the West, yet their arrival and departure
were black the show would be kind of circus
that would shake the nation from the White
House In Washington for thousands Of miles
away.