Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-06-26


5 900 of Union Pacific Railroad stock, 81 900 of
Credit Mobilier stock, and S40O of stock or
bonds. -l-.l--s-. - l-t---5 u. 5----- e..- = /
O. When was that memorandum made? A.
1t was made in my room. l can not remember
the date. 1t ,oas since this fnrest tgatton com
Q. Have you the memorandum that Mr.. Gar
field made? A. I have the figures that he
made. Paper shown in Garfield's handwrit-
8. You say these figures were made by Mr..
Garfield? A. Yes, sir.
Q. That was his idea of what was coming to
him? A. Yes, Sir.
The Report on the ssExedus." Esq
The majority report of the Senate Se-
lect Committee ON the causes of the
Exodus, is document which the stall
wart sneerers at the investigation and
very difficult to wrestle with. The
conclusion Of the Committee that the
exodus is largely due to the stimulat-
ing influence of aid societies in Wash
ington, Topeka and Indianapolis, is
comparatively of small Importance; but
the facts detailed to show that emil
grafton was not due to the causes which
the stalwarts have put forward in ex-
PLANTATION Of it, are very significant
and convincing. The conclusion of the
Committee that there was no depriya-
ton of political rights or any hardship
in condition to which, discomfort could
legitimately be traced, and the facts
upon which that conclusion is based,
are especially significant. On this point
the Committee say, speaking of North
Carolina, the State to which attention
was first directed: $50 5qssz4 - s.L1l-t
A minute examination into the situation of
the colored men shows that the average rate
wv 5ir,cf To h aT1ds 1uth af
the hand, for field labor, was from IS to SIS
per month, including board and house to.l live
house, firewood and certain other privileges,
all rent free. Those, added to the extra labor
wages, which could be earned by. hands dur
ing the season of gathering turpentine and
rosin, or of picking ,tton, made the general
average of compensation for labor In that
State quite equal to, if not betters than the
average in any No rhern State to which these
people were go,ng, to say nothing Of the eli
better adapted to them. The closest scrutiny
could =tect no outra re or violence inflicted
fds IN All esa
they voted freely; that their votes were count
ed fairly; that no improper influence whatey-
er was exeree1 over them. and that many were
acquiring re al estate, and were enjoying pre-
cisely. the same privileges for education that
the whites were enjoying. tU;F7-1.ls5gtt q 40.
Concerning the alleged mistreatment
of the eolored people in courts of justice
the Committee says: .-4s5 sge El
many of the districts of the South the courts
were under entire Republican control Judges,
prosecuting attorneys, sheriffs, ETC., all being
Republicans, and that they were generally as
many complaints from districts thus con-
trolled as there were from districts which were
under the control Of Democratic officials, and
that the whole of the complaints taken to-
gether might be saidto be such as are generally
made by n the i ign0rant, who faii to Teceiys IN
mittee found no State or County in the South
into which this investigation extended where
either in theory or in practice. They found
no County or District in the South where they
were excluded, excl! either it in theory or or practice.
affairs and of the control of county govern
ment. On the contrary, wherever their votes
were most generally divided among the people
or among white people of their choice,
By
the school fund which was allotted to their
race; and the complaints which have been SO
often made of excessive punishment of the
blacks BY the courts as compared, with the
whites, upon investigation proved to be either
excess of punishment Of q black man, the
cause was ascertained to be in the nature OF
the crime with which he was charged or in the
attendant circumstances
| The Committee found the educational
advantages sat the South insufficient,
and far inferior to those at the North.
But they found the school privileges,
such as they were, shared equally by
white and black; and they found also
that the school funds were divided
fairly according to numbers. OF the
political outrages the Committee say: /
| With regard to the political outrages which
| have formed the staple of complaint fol-
many years against the people1o of the South
to report that they found nothing, or almost
nothing, new. Many old stories were revived
few indeed Yentured to say that any consider
| able violence or outrage had been exhibited
toward the colored people of the South within
who ties testied ife on this bIecf and who were were
! evidently anxious, to make the most of it
knowledge. 1t was all hearsay, and nothing
| but hearsay, with rare exceptions. 4al rK
| After an examination of the relations
existing between landlord and tenant
at the South, which they find in excep-
1 tional cases sdisadvantageens to the lat
ter, the Committee express the opinion
that g the condition of the colored peo-
pie of the South is not only as good as
could have been reasonably expected,
but is better than as if large communi-
ties were transferred to a colder and
more inhospitable climate, thrust into
competition with different system o1
labor, among strangers who are not ac.
] customed to them, their habits OF
thought and action, their idiosyncrasies
and their feelings They add, in con-
Guiding this branch of the report: *
! While gradual migration, such as circum
| benefit the individual black man and his fami
! ly. as it does those of the whites, we. cannot
| a people without means and without intelli
! gence from the homes of their nativity in this
as to the OF the o tn
State where they go, and more than all fnjuri
Gus to the last degree to the black people
| dition to be depfored in the South, no one viii
| deny: that that condition is gradually and
| steadily improving in every respect is really
| true. f.-+. st.55-,l..5it5 4Eg Id 4l
Such report, from such a source,
cannot fail to have marked effect in
molding public opinion respecting the
true condition of the colored man at the
South, whatever effect it may have upon
the .sexodrs. .''--DetroI Free Press. ls
The connection of General Gar.
field with the Credit Mobilier case could
not be expected, of course, to stand ir
the way of his selection by a convention
which had devoted itself for nearly 9
/ week to dickering over a Presidential
4 nomination.. And really it is. only fail
to say that there was nothing in it, 81
far as the official records Of the House
show, at all worse than the conduct O.
Mr.. Russell and Mr. Warner Miller, the
.'wood- pulp members of the presen
Congress, who openly represent a mo
nopoly in which they are interested anC
fight to keep it up.-N. Y. World. 4 ID
f.. The New York Times says tina
the Chicago platform is not such as tt
carry the country. And it is plain tha
the candidate can not be such as t.
carry the country. A.a sf5I sAass
L. General Garfield's other name il
De 'Golyer. -s@'e i7'-''