The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-02-06

ever, q Mr.. Mendhall made q speech
suggesting that It would be advisable to
divert emigrants from their then objective
point (kansas), and to "send about 900 into
Indiana, as that was q doubtful State in the
coming election" Witness objected to this,
and as soon as he saw that the Society was to
be used politically he withdrew from it. Wit
ness further testified that when the exodus
from North Carolina first began he addressed
letters to the most prominent cOlOred men in
the State, asking what caused this sudden
uprising. All the answers were that there
was no cause for it; that the more ignorant
~, Williams and Taylor, who had
been North, and returned with
such glowing news that the people
described conversations personally held by
him in North Carolina during the past few
weeks with James H. Harris, Osborne Hunter,
celored men, and with Gov. Holden, Richard
Badger and Col. Ike Young, prominent Radi-
cal Republicans, all in full accord with the
the exodus. They all likewise agreed that the
Carolina, although susceptible of improve
shs sna espsea to
by restoration of their rights to
elect certain county officers, is, on the whole,
quate incentive whatever for cOlored people
to leave the State. " in fact" said the witness,
"every intelligent cOlOred man in the State is
opposed to it, and the six colored newspapers
of North Carolina are all fighting it, and 1 say
that, although the exodus from the Southern
States may be blessing, the exodus from
North Carolina is fraT W.s snG S1Sse Ian 80
Charles II. Otny, colored, who testified be-
fore the committee on the 18th, was recalled
day and subjected to a rigorous croSs-ex-
animation by Senators Window and Blair.
Witness acknowledged he had not heard any
member of the Washington Emgrant Aid So
ciety advise the diversion of the exodus from
Kansas to Indiana for political purposes, ex-
cept Mendenhall, and could not name any
other Republicans in Washington, outside Of
the Emigrant Aid Society. who had advised
the baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company was largely responsible for the en-
igratien. Witness reaSSerted his belief that
the intelligent people of North Carolina,
black and white, Democrats and Republicans,
were opposed to this exodus, and understood
of North Carolina had been engaged in ex-
plOding the false statement spread broad
cast in that State by Perry, Williams and
Evans.
Ind, a resident of Greencastle. was sworn,
and produced q printed circular, which he
obtained from one of the North Carolina
emigrants after he had reached Greencastle
This circular, it was afterwards proven by an
other witness, had been printed in the Office of
the Greencastle Bonner during the latter part
OF last July, and I,t that the editor OF that
the author of this circular. Newman said he
was informed by the cOlOred man who gave it
to him that it had been circulated quite ex-
tensively among colored people in North Car
DINA. 1t urges them to come to Indiana, set
ting forth the attractions of that State, stating
its climate was healthful, that free schools for
both races were maintained, that there were
numerous cOlOred churches, and that blacks
and whites stand equal before the law, and
also stating that LOCO good farm hands and
house servants could readily ii nd employment
at remunerative wages, and especially urging
those who contemplate coming to do so "dur-
ing the present summer and fall of 1879, so as
to get located in time to make their contracts
with farmers next year."