The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-12-19
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Hg. VOORHEES, AND THE NEGRO EXODUS PROM
NORTH CAROLISA-INTEREsTING DEBATE.
PROPOSED MONUMENT AT YORKTOWN II COM
IMMIGRATION OF THE BRITISH SURRENDER
! ENCOURAGEMENT or AGRICCLTUBE-GRAST
| TO VISIT WASHINGTON NEXT &oSTH-PER-
| SoSAI, &C.
From orr Regular CORES endent.l
| WASHINGTON, December 1S.-The Senate
to-day considered the resolution Of Dir.
| VOORHEES, to Investigate the negro exodus
| from North Carolina 10 Indiana, and it gave
Senator Ransom an opportunity to pay
splendid tribute 10 the white people OF tue
Estate Of North Carolina for the libcraIity and
Kindness with which they tad treated the
coIored people. There was not a bitter
word in his speech, nor a sentiment that
was not broadly American and national.
fIe was listened to with profound attention
by senators Of both parties, and when he
alluded to the people of the North he called
Them my northern feliow-countrymen. Al
though one OF the most influential sena-
tors, General Ransom rarely speaks; but
when he does, his utterances bave great
weight with the Senate. He tod Mr. Win
dom. who has advocated the exodus OF the
negroes, that North Carolina is dotted
over with schools for their educa-
ton. and churches in which they
worship. She has given them asylums for
their deaf and dumb, and is erecting one
for their insane. He frequently in bis law
practice, he said, addressed iuries on which
there are a majority OF ccloreI men, and
where he votes there are &c white to 494
colored voters. The question was once not
whether they should vote, but whether he
should be allowed TO do so. lie contended
that tue coIored people Of his State are ad-
vanciug in intelligence, thrift, and skill !;
and, he cited the history OF North Carolina
FOR two hundred years TO show how hui
name has been the treatment OF the colored
race. Said he: We OF the South took
negro parans and turned over to the coln-
try G,00O, 0C0 OF Christians, whom you said
were fit 10 enjoy the highest rights OF
American freemcn, while you took the In
dian race in charge, and how Is it with
them tO-dayl" Mr.. Iloar, OF MasSachu.
sets, who followed him, said that great
movements like this exodus do not come
about without some cause, and asked what
1t was. Senator Ransom replied that mis-
demonstrations on the part OF designing
and interested men had made these negroes
anxious 10 leave their homes and go to In
diana. ought 10 add that he read from
the testimony OF an Intelligent coorcd edi.
tor OF his State, who declares that the ne
grocs there are treated with kindness, libe-
rallty, and justice. Mr.. Window reiterated
in rcDiy the positions OF his exodus speech,
saving that il you could relieve districts
where the negroes are in the majority
Of enough by emigration 10 give the
whites the majority, then there would
be no more prejudice against the negroes,
and their votes would be counted by
both parties, as they were recently in Old
Virginia. Senator Hill, OF Georgia, made
a capital speech, IN which he said he did
not believe that the object OF the exodus to
Kansas was TO control the politics Of that
State, but that political agents have brought
about the exodus to Indiana for political
purposes. Further, it has been declared in
the South that these movements mean the
reduction Of the population and decrease
in the representation OF the South in Con-
grcss under the next census. Mr.. ingalls,
said he had converscd with number OF the
negroes who had gone TO Kansas. and there
was not one who did not say he came there
to be protected in his political rights, and
get an honest days pay for an honest days
work. Mr.. Bailey. OF Tennessee, inter
running him, asked if he had ever heard
one OF the one hundred who had gone to
Kansas from his town say they did not en-
iioy full protection in Tennessee.
The debate continued until after 5
O'Clock, Mr.. Jonas, OF Louisiana, taking
the position that Congress had nothing to
do with the subject.
The Voorhees, resolution then passed,
and OF the twelve against it majority were
Democrats. 81"
TO ERECT 4 MONUMENT At YORKTOWN, VA.
MIR. Hoar, OF Massachusetts, to-day pre-
sented a petition OF Charles Francis Adams
and others Of bis State asking Congress to
erect monument at Yorktown in COM
memoration OF the surrender OF the British
army October 10, 1881, TO the allied forces
OF the Americans and French under Wash
ineton and Lafayette. Congress Just after
the Revolution ordered the erection OF a
monument there, but it was never carried
ont. and these eminent citizens OF Massa-
cbusetts now ask, after the expiration OF a
hundred years, that the monument sbal! he
erected. The matter went to the Library
Committee, aud the indications are that
Congress will accede to the request OF these
ne,itioners. AS member OF Congress
from the North said to-day, the entire peo-
ple, without regard to section or politics.
will approve OF it.
ENCOURAGEMENT OF AGRICULTURE.
The Senate to-day adopted the resolution
introduced by Senator Davis, OF West Vir-
sinin, and reported by Senator Johnston
Yesterday from his committee, for the en-
couragement Of agriculture. The .resoia-
tion provides that the Committees on Agrl-
culture OF the respective houses be, aud
they are hereby, Instructed to consider gen.
orally the subject OF agriculture, and re-
port py bill or otherwise what can or ought
to be done by the General Government TO
better advance, encourage, aud foster az
ricuIuural interests. Mr.. Davis. in ibis