The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1879-04-30
NOTES FROM CORRESPONDENTS.
Washington Letter.
WASHINGTON, ID. G., April %.


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 insiigated by design
ing persons, and will work injury to
three classes-to the Southern planter,
who will lose the labor he needs; to
the black emigrcnt himself, whose
condition, after his emigration, will be
worse than before, and to the western
settler, to whom the influx will he an
unmitigated nuisance. In Kansas,
which seems to be the present object
of this migration, there is no market
whatever for the kind of labor for which
these negroes are fit. Ninety-nine in
the hundred of Kansas farmers are
owners of but 100 10 ago acres of land,
and do all their own work. 1t Is
safe to say that not one In fifty of these
quick moving, alert and hard-wOrhing
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 ignurant negroes
who are Aockiug thither. These will
inevitably settle in towns, where they
will huddle in squalor and laziness,
and will really be burden on the
community. The only place where
they are needed, or where they will
be productive, self-sustaining and
useful, is on the southern plantations,
were they are used to the kind of
work required. They are altogether
too dull and lazy to suit Yankee farm
ers. If Senator Window gets fifteen
or twenty thousand negroes into Min
nesota he will be apt to get more ours
es than thanks from his constituents;
but if he will take few thousand out of
Washington the people here, who now
have them to support, will certainly not
complain. The radical plan of colo.
nizing them irr the States of Indiana,
Ohio and New York in sufficient num-
bers to carry 'thuse States next year,
is a scheme worthy of its Originators.
The late Senator Morton was the in
ventor of this method of carrying elec-
tions, and made it tolerably successful
in few instances where his personal
fortunes were concerned. To Garry
Presidential election in that way,
however, may prove an expensive ami
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 Radical
politicians.
Not very long ago Senator Sauls-
bury leveled Senate resolution at
John Sherman, asking about the re-
funding 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, ard, as nearly as common
people can understand it, he has care
fully lodged the very point at which
the resolution aimed. He describes
with great and superfuous clearness.
the manner in which the national
banks are used as public Repositories,
receiving and using internal revenue
collections until the Government has
need of them, giving proper security
for the same, and SO forth, But, al
thong he gives the names of a great
many banks, with the average amount
of Government deposits which they
carry, the First National bank of
New York is not mentioned. Whence
it is inferred that John has somewhere
lopphOle in Senatorial inquiry which
lets him out on the main subject for
the preset, The cases which he cites
are wholly unlike the case in cues.
ton. These governmental depusitories
use Government money free of ex.
pense, and deposit bonds with the ma.
tional Treasury as security, on which
they draw interest. Perhaps this is
all right Johns pet bank draws in.
terest Tn two sets of bonds at the same
time, one of which stands as security
for the other. Now there are some
people who believe this is not right
especially as that bank has in a few
months, cleared nearly twice as much
money as Its cash capital of 5000 900
amounts to. Now that Mr.. Sherman,s
report is found to contain no mention
of this case, the former well grounded
conclusion is strengthened that there
is somthipg in this direction which be