The Indiana State sentinel., 1880-01-28
FACTS ABOUT THE NEGRO EXODUS.

which they will reap, and for which they
must assuredly answer at the ballot-box.
FACTS ABOUT THE NEGRO EXODUS.
The organs of the Republican kidnapers
who visited North Carolina for the purpose
OF enticing to Indiana thousands of psuper
time and again sought to make it appear
that Indiana requires the assistance of these
psuper negroes to cultivate the soil. The
black Republican rascals who were the
agents OF white Republican knaves were
guilty of the most UNANIMOUSLY barefaced
lying. They told the North Carolina pau
pers thft homes and lands were awaiting
their coming; that land could be had at
from 81 to $1.J0 per acre; that six or seven
months provisions would be provided
grstuitously; that men were wanted at from
81 to S. per day, and women at from $40 to
S25 per month. These lying representations
were well calculated TO induce the pauper
rascalS we're particular to tell the
psuper negroes that no Demo-
cratic niggers were wanted, and
that when they arrived in Indiana they
would be expected to vote the Republican
ticket. That the black agents of white Re-
publican scoundrels made such statements
can be esta olished. and that every one of
them, except those which relate to voting, is
lie, can be proved. That it was a Repubii-
can scheme, the Chicago Tribune has unwit-
hngly shown by statements in Its editorial
columns, and that it is the most infa-
NOUS piece of business ever engaged
in by political party to change
is easily demonstrated. The only party that
could by any possibility engage in such an
execrabIe proceeding is the Republican
party-s party that elevated Hayes to power
by fraud, forgery aud perjury, would not
hesitate to ill Indiana with pauper negroes
by means equally vile.
The report of the auditor of state for 1878
shows that there were in cultivation in the
State OF Indiana about $685. ,67S acres of
land. The cereal products of these lands in
1S77 were a. follows:
Wheat, buShels ,022 43l
Corn ,Sl2 09S
-.s 80 "~ "~ .s...- -..
OatS Dusne
Barley, bush l5i,24o
In the year 1875 there was an increased
yield. and IN 1879 the wheat product
amounted to about 81, ,O00, 900 bushels max
ing Indiana the banner wheat State of the
Union. During these years of steadily increas
ing production there was nowhere demand
for farm laborers in excess of the supply.
On the contrary the supply of lator was
largely in excess OF the demand. Thsre was
not 4 county paper published in the State
that advertised Tor farm laborers to
come from a distance. Thousands OF hon
est men were out of employment, mechanics
as well as common laborers, who would have
been glad to obtain any kind of work, at
almost any price, but II could not be
had In view OF these facts,
the mounstrous proportions OF the wrong in
tended the white laborers OF Indiana by the
Republican knaves who have been and are
still importing psuper negroes into the State
can be appreciated. The population OF In
diana in 1870 was I,6SO,63 The gain from
1s60 to 1870 was about 20 per cent If the
same ratio Of increase has continued during
the decade just passed, the population of the
State is now about 100000 or about so
persons TO the square mile. The population
of North Carolina IN 1870 was l ,07l ,361; the
increase during the decade from 1s60 to 1870
was something over per cent and the pres
ent population OF the State may be estimated
at about 1,146,356, or something over
% persons TO the square mile. Here. then,
we have the fact that the Republican knaves
are kidnapping pauper negroes in North
Carolina where the population is % to the
square mile TO ship to Indiana where the
population is 60 TO the square mile
0stensibly to better the condition OF
the paupers, while the real purpose is to
have them vote the Republican ticket.
These Republican knsves and kidnapers
disregard every law that influences the
legitimate migration of human beings, they
violate the laws OF Indiana, they violate the
laws OF humanity, and they violate the laws
OF Christianity. They have inflicted untold
cruelties upon the psuper negroes, and to
gain a few votes are wiling to force the
white lsborers of Indiana into pauperism and
crime.