The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1880-02-11

that was "A doubtful State in the coming
election" He then addressed letters to
prominent cOlOrcd men i'm North Caro-
lima asking what was the cause Of this
sudden uprising. The replies camc that
there was no cause for il, and that the
ignorant negroes We're being led into il
by three men named Perry, Williams
aud Taylor, who cot up secret meetings
and represented To the dupes that the
Government wanted them to 90 to In
diana; that they would get 81 80 to
- y per day and new suits of clothes
when they got to Washington. These
three lying cmisSarieS were the paid
agents Of the radical party. Mr.. Outey
said that when he learned aIlthese facts
II" withdrew from the society. lie add
cd that n had converscI in North Car
Dina during the past few weeks with
James III. Harris, Osborne Hunter, Jr.,
VI. V. Turner and the other very PROM
inent colOred men, and with Governor
Holden, Richard Badger and Colonel
Ike Young, prominent radical Republic
cans, AL fully in accord with the fore
going explanation of the real cause os
the exodus. They all likewise agreed
that the condition of the people of
North Carolina is ON the whole highly
favorable, and there is no adequate in
centive whatever for coiOfed people to
leave the State. ain fact" said the
witness, "cvcry intelligent colored man
in the State is opposed To il, and the six
colored newspapers of North Carolina
are fighting it; and say that, although
an exodus from some of the Southern
States may be blessing, the exodus
from North Carolina is a fraud and
curse"
Add 10 this the testimony of Judge
CarctOn. of Terre Haute, and we have
all tina; is necessary To be said on the
exodus question. The Judge said he
was well acquainted with the people
and with the condition of things in
that portion of Indiana; there is no
present demand for farm hands or any
other kind of unskilled labor; on the
contrary, there Is an over supply, and
the feeling of the people, including a
number of old cOlored residents with
whom he has convcrsed, is decidedly
averse to the immigration of destitute
colorcd people like the North Carolina
immigrants in question, and especially
IA the general impression is that they
are brought there only TO vote.
General Sherman has got himself into
n libel suit, and one in which the SYM
PATTY and sound sense of the commu-
nifty is all against him, notwithstanding
his high position. Ever since General
BOynton punctured his egotistical ME
mOirs" by facts compiled from the re-
cords Of the War Department and 9TH
er reliable sources, General Sherman
has shown Il degree of vindictiveness
towards him seldom exhibited by intel
ligent men. Recently Gen. Grant has
sustained BOyntOn in his statement
that Grant and not Sherman originated
the plan of march to the sea, and this
81 rcvives the latter's anger that he
charged BoyntOn in a newspaper inter-
view with being capable of any wicked
ness for money; that he could he
bought for 81 coo. General BOyntOn is
the correspondent of the Cincinnati
Gazette, and one of the most cultivated,
reliable and respected journalist in
Washington. Gen. Sherman has made
himself the author of as untruthful and
coarse an attack upon a gentleman as
has ever been published, and he ought
TO be made to suffer the penalty of his
wickedness. Many men wOuld have ar
rested him ut once on criminal charge,
but Gen. Boynton has chosen the dig
Eified part, and from respect for the
high rank of his assailant, takes him
before tribunal where lie can get a
vindlcatiOn without bringing any indisy-
nifty upon the general of the army.
The suit ought to he of interest to all
newspaper correspondents here, for ii Is
too much the habit of public men
against whom any charge is brought by
the newspapers to charge back that it
il ''only newspaper lie ;" that "news-
paper men can be bought :" that "it is
all for blackmail," etc, etc. The truth
is, that astonishingly few false charges
are made by the newspapers, ana there
are very men in Washington who are
more trustworthy and careful in the
discharge of their duties than the cor
respondents. They see good deal of
thtir tricks and rascaiities i'll official
and political life, and do not tell the
half.
There is no telling yet how Secretary
SchurZ will come out in his negotiations
with the Indians now here, but think
Il peaceful solution of the difficulties
will result. Yet any arrangement that
does not secure a surrender and punish
ment of the brutes who committed
murder and outrage will be unsatisiac-
tory and wrong. Five of the chiefs
mere returned to Colorado to lay the
plans of the Government be-
fore the tribe, and the Others remain
here till their return. They have all
been furnished fine suits of clothes, and
look quite slick. Before the departure
of Sack and the others a grand pow
WOW was held in the Indian bureau.
Secretary Schurz, Commissioner Hayt
and other officials joined hands with
their red brethren, and danced in n cir
Gle to slow music. Ouray gave some of
the fancy movements which he saw ut
the Black Crook. Secretary Schurz,
when his time came for doing a ''single
turn" danced Dutch clog, and Com
missioner Hayt sang, baptist, baptist,
eating baptist pie" PHoNO.