Daily Republican., 1879-12-23
DE1A, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23 l879--WITH SUPPLEMENT-
THE DOwN.rRODOEN BLACKS.

THE DOwN.TRODOEN BLACKS.
Tho eEmiGratiOn Nov e m snt sppe nd
ling in the 80 ath-Whai the Fugi.
tives From Democratic Abuss
Say.
A special dispatch from Washington
to the Nsw-York "Times" says:
There are signs that the exodus Of
colored people TO Indiana, which has 80
greatly alarmed Senator Voorhees,, Ia
not confined entirely to the negroes Of
North Carolina. Among the emigrants
who have very recently passed through
this city were several families from
Norfolk, Va. The movement is spread
ing also in North Carolina, and within
two days a party has left Wilson
county for Indiana. The members Of
this party declare that they left North
Carolina solely because they could not
make living there, aud because they
were regarded and treated as being un-
equal to the whites before the law.
To the question whether they had
been urged by strangers, either white
or black, to go to Indiana or any other
State, they answered e,nphatically in
the negative, and asserted that they had
never known or heard Of the presence
in North Carolina of any strangers
engaged in such work. They had
been led to 90 to Indiana by the repre-
sentation of one of their former neigh
bors, who settled in that State two
years ago, and who has been urging
his relatives and friends ia Wilson
County ever since to join him there,
and also by the statements Of two col
ored men who went to Indiana from
the southern part of North Carolina
year or two ago. They also said that
a colored shoemaker, who went from
Wilson County to Ohio five years ago,
has recently revisited his old home
and tried to induce all his friends to
60 to Ohio.
One of these emigrants has been cul-
tivating, under landlord, piece of
land containing 92 acres. This land
cost the landlord $500, as the deed
shows. and the colored man has been
paying for the use Of it in cotton &l49
a year, a rent which was nearly dou.
bled by overcharges on household sup
plies from the owner of the land. In
North Carolina piece of 25 acres is
called a"one-horss farm, "and thessem-
igrants say that in many cases color
ed tenant pays annually for one of
these farms 5 bags of cotton Of 450
pounds each, or about 1925, this amount
being more than the land could be sold
for. Exorbitant prices are charged for
the food which the tenants are forced to
procure Of their landlords. For exam
pie, they are charged 81 bushel for
meal.
The result is that most of them are
kept continually in debt. 81 could
stand the rest," said one Of the men,
"but when l could not clothe and feed
my children had to come away. We
could not sell our furniture and other
property, and we have been long time
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