The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-02-13
The COlOred Exodus.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 81.
The examination of N. T. Lewman, Sheriff
of Putnam County, Ind, was continued.
Witness gave an account of an interview he
had with man named Heath, who came in
Heath was trying to find a location for colored
emigrants, and had letters to Judge Martin
dale and Col. Holloway, prominent Indiana
Republicans. Witness represented himself to
Heath as q Republican and in that way
gained the latter's confidence. Witness tes-
titled that Heath told him, among other things
that one reason for the cOlOred people leav-
ing North Carolina was to better their condi-
ton, and another reason was that their friends
in Washington desired as many of them as
possible to get out of North Carolina and into
May l, so as to decrease the representation of
North Carolina and increase that of Indi.
ana. Ten thousand intended to come.
On cross examination by Window, the wit.
ness stated that his county is well settled up.
There is no demand for labor there. Much
dissatisfaction is felt on account of the emf
grafton, not because of the emigrants' color,
but because they reach their destination in a
destitute condition and have to be supported
by the county, and because they OverstOck the
labor market. There is i'll feeling among the
takes the shape of threats. One man who
hired some of the negroes had his barn
burned a few days later. This matter was be-
fore the Grand jury. Witness preferred on
that account not to speak of it. There were
bad men of both parties there. Perhaps DEM
ocrats had burned the barn. He could not say
WHETHER CnlS COnUucC WOulQ nave the erect OF
lettering people from hiring emigrants and
so cause it to appear that there was no de-
mand for labor.
At Mr.. WINDOWS request Heath will be sum-
mOned as q witness.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.
B. X. Morris, real estate agent of Intianapo-
lis, testified that to his belief there is abundant
room and ample opportunity for industrial
employment in that state for a large number
of cOlOred Immigrants and that he had no
knowledge of the present immigration being
political movement.
WIN. u. Tinney, Passenger Agent at Indian.
apOlis for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
testified as to S625 having been raised by lead.
ing cOlOred men in Indianapolis to pay the
transportation of party of emigrants.
Thomas Mills (Republican), indianapolis,
testified that he remarked to 1.-THE boys"
when North Carolina cOlOred people first be.
gan to arrive at Indianapolis, eve want 90.
600 bucks, and not women and children" Did
not know of any party organization CT effort
to induce emigration to Indiana.
E. d. Borden, GOldsbOrO, N. c., testified that
the wave of the movement, such as it was, is
already subsiding, and that the great mass of
cOlOred people in North Carolina were as well
contented as they are in any other section of
the country.
by request of Senator Voorhees, extracts
from the Greencastle Banner were read, urg
ing it Us the duty of the cOlOred man South to
come North of the Ohio River and keep up q
solid North and arguing that if they remain
in the South to be enumerated in 1850, they
would increase the number of their enemies
there, but if they come North they would in
crease the number of their friends in the
North