The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-09-10
The Negro in the South .

The Negro in the South.
WASHINGTON, Sept. III. Z. Bruce, n
colored man and editor of The Exodus,
of this city, IA paper which circulates
chiefly among the colored people, has
received private letter from a cOrros-
pondent IN Louisiana, giving something
of the political outlook from a colorcd
mans point of view. The writer
says:
The prospect of the colOred race get
ting along in Louisiana is gloomy. In
April, a crowd of white roughs went To
a colored church in East Baton Rouge,
drove away its occupants, closed the
church and whipped some of the men,
bers. On several plantations in the
state several colored labOrers organized
and demanded wages at a rate that they
could live on. The Governor sent the
militia to the places where the strike oc-
CURED, arrested the men and placed
them in prison on trumped-up affida-
Wits.
The exodus still continues from Louis
ana, Texas, Alabama aud Mississippi.
Every st. Louis packet that leaves this
port always carries several persons who
are fleeing the wrath of Democratic rule.
learn that several hundred are expected
soon to emigrate from Caddo, Bossier
and adjoining parishes of Louisiana /;
also from Augustine and other counties
of Texas to the north and west
The colored Republicans of this state
have held no meeting as yet to indorse
Garfield and Arthur. Several ward clubs
have ON their own responsibility in
dorsed our Republican nominee.
In jackson Parish of this state the
white people whip the colored people
Just as they did IN the days of slavery,
In Caddo white man numerically beat
an intelligent colored lady because she
would not be his concubine. In Falls
county, Texas, the colored people are de
termined to GO TO Liberia, and have called
for aid from the American colonization
society. So you can judge from thi:
| outline what Democratic rule is doing
| south, and what the result will be if they
succeed in getting tie presidential chair
During the beginning of July color
cd man was shot in the courthouse il
| the presence of judges, sheriffs and law
| yers, because he had married whit
| woman, the sister of the would-be muT
derer Again, on July 4, 1880, coloret
man was killed by three white william
because he was walking with what the
| took for a white woman, when she wa
| his own sister. The Colonization Coun
| Gil is holding regular sessions, and con
/ sidering the whole matter relative to on
race leaving here.
| Red Devils DemOralized.
| WASHINGTON, Sept. THE following
telegram has been received at the wa
department from Brigadier General Orc
under date of San Antonio, Texas, Al
gust 81:
Grierson by telegraph from RuitmaE
dated yesterday reports as follows: NJ
/ n1r,e
ing the Indian trail to the Candeleri
mountains, Mexico, and report the Ind
ans in badly crippled and demoralize
condition, having their wounded wit
them and their stock played out. III
also reports that the Mexican troops hav
neither attacked the Indians nor got i
; their way, and have evidently give
them q passage toward the west onl
diminishing with small parties VIII
were stealing stock from the Mexica
cattle men. The Indians crossed Ii
road leading from Ell Paso to Chihu
hua only few hours after Col. Val
with a small detachment passed south Il
ward that place, and they have gone Vi
the Santa Maria river in the direction {
2 Dequesman. This information is col
firmed by telegram from the commas
ing officer at Fort Bliss, who states tn
the Indians were there in camp wit
their wounded from the 2Sth of Jul
{ upon their first crossing the river
!. Texas, until the 18th of August, wht
n Victoria with the last of his force W
: the second time driven back into Mex
c CO. The loss of the Indians in the figh
!, at Rattlesnake canon and in the sever
y skirmishes and other fights was cerfai
!, ly not less than thirty killed ~
e wounded, very probably over forty, al
4 without fresh horses add resi- to reecupt
8 ate, they are not now in q condition
act "a q body against any organic
', force, as they are now in Mexico az lea
n $50 miles to the westward Of Fort Ga
o man.