Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1880-02-04
SPIRIT OF THE AGE,
Wednesday, Feb 4, 1880.
lPron our regular eoIrespondenl.l
WASHINGTON LETTER,
wIsHissTos, u. O.. Jan, 81, 1850,

Senator Voorhees, committee has been
engaged In the inquiry tor seine Time
and a good deal OF evidence pointing
to the above conclusion has been
taken but tho thing was most beautl-
fully clinched on Monday OF this
week, when Charles NJ, Ouley, col
ored, the editor IF The Washington
Argus, gave his testimony ] would
like TO give his statement In full were
Il possible, but to briefly summarized
lie said no was one Of The founders
OF the National Emlgrant Aid socie'
tyi the first intimaiion he had that
the exodus movement was being
worked up at both ends was when u
member Of the society laid before ono
OF the meetings proposition to
''send about 5000 into lndlena, rs
that was q doubtful State In the com
Ing election" Hc then addressed lei
tiers to prominent colored men in
North Carolina asking what was the
cause Of this sudden uprising The
replies came that there was no tanse
for II, and that the ignorant negroes
were being led into it by three men
named Perry, Williams, and Taylor,
who got up secret meetings and rep
resented TO the dnpeS that the Govern
ment wanted them to 50 to Indiana;
that they would get Sl,5O to 1925
per day and new suits OF clothes
when they got to Washington, These
three lying cmissarics were the paid
agents Of the radical party. Mr..
Outcy said that when he learned all
these facts he withdrew from the so
cieiy. He added that he had con-
yerscd in North Carolina during the
past weeks with James II. Harms, Os-
borne Hunter, Jr,, NJ. V Turner and
other very prominent colored men,
and with Governor Holden, Richard
Badger and Colonel Ike Young, prom
lnent radical republicans, all fully in
accord with the foregoing explanation
of the real causes Of the exodus.
They all likewise agreed that the con-
di,ion OF the people OF North Caro-
lima is on the whole lightly favorable,
and that there is no adequate incen-
tive whatever tor colored people to
leave the State, "In fact said the
witness, "cvery intelligent colored
man in the State is opposed to it, and
the six colored newspapers of North
Carolina are fighting it; and | say
that, although an exodus from some
of the Southern States may be a
blessing, the exodus from North Car
lima is q fraud and q curse"
Add to this the testimony of Judge
Carleton, of Terre Haute, and we
have all that is necessary to be said
on the exodus question, The Judge
said he was well acquainted with
the people and with the condition
OF things in that portion OF lndl-
ana; there is no present de-
mand for farm hands or any other
kind of unskilled labor; on the con-
trary, there is an over supply, and the
feeling of the people, including
number of old colored residents with
whom he has conversed, is decidedly
averse to the immigration of destitute
colored people like the North Caro-
lima immigrants in question, and es-
pecially as the general impression is
that they are brought there only to
vote.
General Sherman has got himself
INTO libel suit, and one IN which the
sympathy and sound sense of the com.
munity is all against him, notwith'
standing his high position, Ever
since General Boynton punctured his
egotistical "Memoirs" by facts com.
piled from the records of the War
Department and other reliable sources,
General Sherman has shown a degree
of vindictiveness towards him seldom
exhibited by intelligent men. Recent.
ly Gen. Grant has sustained Boynton
in his statement that Grant and not
Sherman originated the plan of march
TO the sea, and this so revives the lat.
ters anger that he charged Boynton
10 newspaper interview with being
capable Of any wickedness for money;
that he could be bought for $1,000
General Boynton is the correspondent
of the Cincinnati Gazette, end one OF
the most cultivated. reliable and re-
spected journalists in Washington.
Gen. Sherman has made himself the
author of as untruthful and coarse an
attack upon gentleman as has ever
been published, and he ought to be
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