, 1880-01-27
TIE EXODUS.

Itondcd Transportation law, and second hearing
THE EXODUS.
MORE TESTIMONY.
WARRINGTON. D. G., Jim. ea-Tho tnvcstign.
tfon Of tho Causes Of the colorct1 exodus was
continual BY tho scnate spccni Committee to-
day. Warren c. Touring. cotose1, cnp1oyG Of ono
Of the Executive Departments at Washington,
testified. Ho has occupied tho position Of scc-
Rotary Of tho Emf8nnt Aid Socicty tho past few
Hccks; that be tns received letters from his
relatives in North Carol!nn, reporting TINT tho
colored people nf that Rtntc reccIvc very low
wugcs, and nro dissatisfied With their treatment
and want to cmigrato: that he has read tho let
tcr8 published In tho Crccncaet1c, Ind, Ddn-
f,er, written hy some of tho North Carolnn
colorcd emixrants III 1nilann, expressing thom-
selves delighted with their new homes, md TINT
ono Of thcsc men Is reported to havo anld Tint
hc would not 20 hack to North Carolina for $t0Q,
and that Indiana Is
Just THE rLACE
for tho co!orcd people to come to. From these
and similar evidences witness beloved tho
refugees Ind been we'll received in Intiann.
Several Of these printed letters wero rca1 to tho
Committee, md Senator Voorhees, announced
that janles 4. Stokes, assertcd author Of tho
most emphatic one. would hu suhpnnncd to
testify whcthor or not ho actually wrotoft
AuAslE5 Ne 0tA3s EVluIE+ls GAll41s u tul TA6Hs
ington AFgus, a weekly tfaper devoted to tho III.
tctcsts Of tho cnorcd race, and Principal of tho
Howard University school. testified that be Is a
nntiyc Of North Carolina, g1iluato OF Obcriln
College and ct Howard University; that he has
visited his nnt1vc 6tAte every your since he left
Il. and has made a careful study Of her pcortc,
Ills last yist was only q few weeks ngo when
he delivered m orntion nt tho Isnlcigh cele-
bration Of the issuance Of tho Emancipation
fret $Enrf HALL &tuA hon
enc OF tho founders Of tho National Emi8rnnt
Aid Society. having himself drnwn up It's con-
stitution. Its object was to furnish atd To COL
orcd people fleeing from oppression, such as tho
destitute crowds accumulated at g. Louis IN
their way to Kansas from Mississippi and Loutsi.
ana. At ono OF tho first meetings. however, n
bfr. Mendenhnit MADRID speech suggesting that
from their then objective, point fKansas), and
send "ahnit 1000 Into indiana. NJ that was Il
doubtful State ~ the coming election"
suggestion at the time exccrt himself. IIe con-
flnucd: II felt that we had beon
UsEp LONG ENOUGH AZ Too1s-
know that the former use Of us Ind not re-
man nc Ind voted the Republican ticket, mud our
roward was buckshot from the Ku-klux, and no
fa% e IN kaona1 st %
~ that TIC sxoaus W. t. to % used Politically
There wcrc others in fbo socscty who aftcs-
wards expressed the same sentiments, but they
rcansa @ 1ts II thG e. 9rxshlzao 3,,Ga =, HI. ,.
cision. sald he argued with a friends Ia tho So
cioty that in Knrssas cosnred ernIgrnnts
NIGHT ACQUIRE AoMEsTEADs.
| In IpdanA and Ohm thoy could mt, Ia tho
q sis &c s lat as' named hsy y I'D
| hcen Invited. ~ ' .''
| tho GYOtlus from North CArntlnA first bcP1n. b1
addressed letters in tho mrst urnmiuens eoiorcd
den Uprising. Xll tho answers wern that tbcro
| WA nj, t:a,,sc for II: TINT tbe tnnrn frnorSnt
wcro delldcd by three men mined Ferry, Will
Inns. 9nd Taylor who h.. nad been North md . re-
tho fact that these three men bud been among
he t ao unse staiee aa a
wanted them TO
49, ,.,,, ,,,. :',', 60 70 .snI.sA, y, ,,,, ,,., ,,.
thoy would fceeiye si.s5 per day d,rins ths WIN
ter. md q "a t..5o during tho spring. summer.
anS ssy f xos so rss, wS hs1S's 5 s Ms II fo as ;!
the6 n names T q thoso 80 oonsenting .ti 10 Co.
| their ability to nay, They called mectiugs tn
| the country churches. held with closed doors,
number, wore well received aud imu,rtiatey
employed. These wruta l,ack to their friends,
advising them 70 como. al1d henco, tstlt tho Wit
ffom North tar,lnn,
Mr. Otuy, IN Tho course Of his further state
ments, described conversations personally held
weeks, With James II. HnErit, uRi,truc Hunter,
| IT,, NJ. V. TurIlert md 0thor very prntnInunt
| c0lnrfi men, und Will Gov. Holden, Rchllrsl
| Nad8er, nni C0l. lko Yollng, prominent
ri4!Ical Republicans, ali In full nccorr with tho
foregoing EXPLANATION Gf the real ,,ut|seA Ut tho
oxiaus. Thgy MI likewise agreed thMt tho cotl-
iition ot tl, cNlos,rl pfpple IT North Carnita,
| ulfhni,gh k,Ikgeptibln at Improvement ~ tho
md especially by tho restoration Ut tlIaIr rights
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