The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-01-14
TIE ANIMUs OF TaE NEGRO EXODUS.

Dan VOORHEES, and his Tx of fellows are
making a great fuss because some North Caro-.
in search of Work and wages. The real obJec
ton On Dams part is 10 their politics II they
De heartily welcome to the Hoosier state
Thus far only ABOUT thousand have arrived
in Indiana. Nearly all have located in Put
nam, Clay and Nigo counties on farms, having
secured better places than they are used to.
They generally make arrangements for
small piece of land aud house for their fami-
lies, and are receiving from SIS to S25 month
for farm work in cash, whereas in North Car
DINA they were paid about half these wages In
store truck at double the honest market prices.
These dsrkies usually tickled at being
paid off each month by the Indiana farmers
take To the "dollaTs of the daddies" with a
wonderful avidity. They say ii is just the
KIND of money they have been looking for
ana particularly want. Tney nave no sym
pathy with the Bayard, Sherman and Hayes
hostility to silver dollars. All the blacks of
the South are delighted 10 get silver dollars for
Indiana upon six months residence in the
state. These thousand darkies will all be vot-
next fall. They have mostly settled in the
Eighth district, which the Democrats carried
last year for congressman by l,0l0 majority,
though the Republicans carried II in 1916,
electIng Hunter by LOO majority. What Voor-
hees & 90. fear is that this black Republican
reinforcement of bone and muscle will redeem
the Eighth district next fall, and turn the bal
ance in several counties for legislators who
elect senator in piece of Mcdonald, whose
term expires March 4, 1881. That is where the
from North Carolina, however, continues to
pour into Indiana, Dan Voorhees, protests to
the contrary notwithstanding; and al who
arrive previous TO next May will be entitled to
vote next fail in Indiana, which is thus grad
ually ceasing to be a doubtful State.-Chicago
Tribune.
We invite the people of Indiana to read
the foregoing, from an exceedingly stalwart
organ of the Republican conspirators and
knaves. 1t tells the whole story OF the pur-
pose of the negro pauper exodus to Indiana,
and seeks to promote it by number of lies
as bald and as blasphemous as any that have
hitherto helped Republicans to maintain
power by fraud, forgery and perjury. The
Chicago Tribune does not hesitate to say
that the imported pauper negroes are brought
into the State of Indiana for the purpose of
changing the political complexion of q
congressional district, for the purpose
of making the Legislature of the State Re.
publican, and for the purpose of defeating
the Democratic party in the cleo
ton of United States senator
in the place of Hon. Joseph E. Mcdonald.
True, the lying organs OF the pauper exodus
infamy have discl aimed that the exodus of
psuper negroes from North Carolina had
any political significance whatever, or that
it is Republican scheme in any sense, but
the Chicago Tribune lets the cat out of the
bag, and with an effrontery OF an arrested
feIon turns states evidence upon the whole
gang OF Republican knaves, black and
white, and divulges the villainous
SERENE, so that there need be
no further equivocatlon upon the subject.
The reason for bringing the pennIless pau
pers to- Indiana in mid winter is also dis
closed. The Tribune says "that all who ar.
rive-previou5 to next May will be entitled
to q vote next fall in Indiana, which is thus
gradually csasing to be a doub tful State"
As result of this scheme pauper negroes
beggars the moment they land upon Indiana
soil-without proper clothing-in some in
stances with scarcely any clothing at all
old and decriplt mothers, far ad-
vanced in pregnancy; infants, suf-
fering from nakedness, cold and
hunger; old and young are often crowded
into shelters scarcely remove from hem
neries or hog pens, to give birth to children,
and where, in one instance at least, the in
FAINT suffered death by freezing. And these
understandable cruelties and miseries that cry
to Heaven for redress, are committed and
forced upon ignorant pauper negroes by Re-
publican scoundrels, kidnapers, conspirators
and knaves that the Eighth district may be
made Republican and that Republican
senator may be elected and that Indiana
may cease to be a doubtful State"
But this Is not the entire lesson that
this pauper negro exodus teaches. The Tri-
bune says these psuper negroes are ''rsceiv-
ing $15 TO $25 a month for farm work in