The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-02-04
TWENTY THREE HUNDRED Ne
GROES GONE TO INDIANA.
Multitudes Sick With Contagious Dis.
eases The Address of Those Sick
The City Dispensary Now Furnishing
Twenty Prescriptions Daily-Inter.
views Held by Sentinel Reporters.
fundamentals Daily Sentinel, Goth

| There IL no QDatcnlcnI Oh tnc cHNNuS. u
Carolina negroes continue TO arrive In large
! and small lots. The nnmher having arrived
here since November Eth IL orcr2.3p and not
! one to-day Is making money enough TO pro-
! vide the ncccssaries OF life for himself ana
family.
Public opinion is divided MS to the cause Of
, the exodus. ii Is generally held that the ne
groeS were induced to come here through rep
reservations and promises that were known
to be falSehOOdS when made.
| One week ago last Friday night. $50 Of these
poor, miserable. deludcd wrctclics arrived In
This city. and four hundred more are expected
to follow within ten days.
One OF these immigrants unboSomcd MIN
| self TO n Sentinel reporter Yesterday:
His story is full OF sorrow and would awaken
the sympathy OF any heart, lie is a plnnia,
tIon negro, with no education, yet possessed
of good common sense. lie talked freely
| when met by the reporter, and offers to sub
stantiatc all that he says. The conversation
| was opened thus:
"I.enoir county, North Carolina"
"Why did you come hcre?'
samuel Perry and Peter G. Williams come
to US and said, get ready to 70 to Indiana.
| They clectioncercd Just ms they do In election
| times. They promised that IT / camc TO IN
diana I would receive two or three dollars
pcr day for any kind Of lnbor. and that !
would be provided WITH q house 10 ave H."
"Well, they said that there were five humid.
rcd houses built and furnished for us. That
We would be given bed clothing and suits and
n milk cow"
Were you to get work."
OH, yes; yes, sir; we were given the prlvi-
lcge OF working for ourselves or working fnr
three dollars per day. They said We c"l'ld
buy land at one dollar and a half to two Lol-
lars per mere, and that provisions would be
be furnished us for seven months, and those
who did not buy land would be hired by men
rs soon as they arrived in this city, right from
"Have Won found this truc?"
No. sir; no., indecdcc. AS I stand before
the Lord, not one word Is MS they said.
You found the land?"
you obtained work."
IL aint heard OF It,"
"Tcll me now" said the reporter, "how
much money nave you made since you ar
Ten cents. That is every cent, rs true rs l
am here"
"1Iavc you n fnmily?'
"A wife and six head Of children"
"uavc you money!"
"Well, l Is got forty cents what ] brung wild
me, and nothing 10 ent, no wood and no
clothing. We sleep on the bare floor. They
told me that We did not nave to burn wood
here"
BY this time the reporter had his colorcd
friend in his confidence, and assuming 10
be the best friend he had in this world, the
reporter Inquisitivcly said:
''Thcy said something mare. What was 1t
Perry told you about being Republicans"
samuel Perry told me that we must be
valiant-hearted Republicans: that they did
not want any Democrat niggers in the party,
and"
"Well, what clse?"
"Thnt the Democrats had used the offices
for robbery and such. and that We must all
show our principles as men and vote the Re-
publican ticket"
O course you agrecd?'
ave oil told him we would do M we had
been doing, and that was to vote that ticket.
l want to say to you here, that they told us
we would be free up here, and I want TO shy
we was rs free in North Carolina. There we
had work and oil we could eat, and voted as
we pleased
ibid they not bulldozc and
"INTIMIDATE YoC?"
mot as 7 have heard on. 7 worked with my
master seven years. md he was q Demo.
voted"
THE SICK.
or the two hundred md fifty families now
in this city, fully onc.third are sick with ron
tagious diseases. The city diSpenSary hns
furnished for the past month IN average Of
twenty. prescriptions per day for these. while
blcd to "strain' their credit mt drug stores,
but OF course their poverty. and for once be-
slows a little "swept charity"
A visit to 245 Shelby street, in the alley in
the rear Of 200 North Delaware street, corner
OF California and st. Clair streets. on Ten.
ncssee. between South and tho railroad, along
Prosncct. West. Michigan. s.. Clair and South
Mississippi streets. may be found in each
house three to five families, and always two,
and sometimes as many ms 1vc, sick persons
to each house.
ttmos n little fire warns the stove, and in nj
most every case without clothing sufficient to
cover them.
A prominent colored man, who has been
thanflfio1 with tho Ronphlicnn nort,, ,,1
with Brother BrOyle's church. told q reporter
yesterday that not n single nero had come to
this town but what understood that he was 10
vote the Republican ticket. He further said
that since the publication in the Scnhinel OF
the article showing the sickness, poverty md
deaths nmonG the immigrants. the committed
from the Christian Aid Society, who. by the
way. are all good Republicans as we'll as
christians had advised Perry and cthers In
Washington to send the negroes in small
numbers. and that they had been coming in
lots Of
SIX y TEN FAMILIES.
And therefore had not attracted public atten.
ton. He said there Ind been no mention or
ing for three weeks past. every other day,
sometimes three days apart. and were met BY
the committee, who would advise them to
rent houses. which took NIL their money. III
they had any. This committee is Rev. Moses
Rroylos, Rev. Mr.. Singleton. ]. r. Raynor, S.
A. Ebert and Conrad Burnley.
THE RESULT.
In the northern part OF the city the negroes
are n burden to tho people. Not n day passes
hut that they are around asking tor aid, in all
forms-food. clothing and fuel. Some have
even solicited small pieces IF carpet In which
to wrap their babies at night to keep them
warm. ThiS state OF affairs can not be denied
when 1t Is known that none lave received
more than eighty cents D day, nd others OF
the few who have obtained little jobs are
paid bnt forty md fifty cents per day. What
must the result he? That they will either
starvc or he thrown upon the township trus-
tee for support, and III that case create n large
debt. Few, II any. have monty, and arc now
dependent upon their neighbors.