The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-01-14
Exopus INVESTIGATION

Washington advices are 20 the effect thaE
the negro pauper exodus from North Caro-
hna will be investigated at an early day.
The committee has been organized and wilt
soon be ready for work. That the psuper
exodus has been from the first manipulated
By e set Of soulless Republican scsmps,
BLACK and white. there can be no question.
That they have lied to the negroes
Is fact that admits of no
controversy. And the negroes now
in Indians, II permitted to testify, would
make The infamous proceeding so plain that
even the Republican senators on the COM
uittse would be compelled. in the interest
Of humanity. to denOunce the pITaticsl kid
nspeIs with unmeasured severity. These
r. publican rsscals have gone among the
ignorant pauper negroes of North Carolina
and told them that they were wanted in
Indiana as farm hands. That was q lie,
and the rsscals knew it. They told them
they could at once secure good homes, with
gardens that they would be furnished with
COW, and would receive 81 to s. per day IS
wages, in cash. These statements were lies
known to be lies at the time, and proved
10 be lies since the poor, balf-naked, halt
starved paupers arrived in the State. The
Republican kidnapihg scoundrels, in
ths employment OF Republican con-
spiratoTs and knsyes, made con-
tracts wish railroads TO ship the paupers
over certain lines az 50 much ahead. recely
ing a bonus for their work-an exhibition of
mercsnary cruelty equaled only By the ne
gro steslers who formerly entrspped the ma
lives OF Africa in their iuugles, and shipped
them 70 the most favorable markets. These
contracts 20 ship pau per negroes TO Indiana
we're fulfilled when the negroes reached In
diana. Here they were dumped and left TO
the cold charities OF the worli,
and their sufferings have been terrible
Sick, half clad, without money or food
or shel er, they have been forced into church
buildii e and shsnties ard pens, TO live
OF die, as fate MIGHT decide. One poor fellow
with q vile and two children, a negro Of Che
better sort, who paid his way through, after
three weeks search for work, was able ID find
poor dsludsd pauper was able TO
ct s. for months work IN
tie country, ard returning to his home,
place OF squaior, he found his wife / a the
rags Of childbirth, and soon after the in
fant lay cold and stiff in the embrace Of
death-fr,zsn 10 death because there was not
particle OF clothing with which 10 shield il
from lhe blasts Of winter. The whole bust
ness is panorama Of horrors, gOttsn up TO
I'll IL diana With Republican voters for
the campaign Of 1880 Ii is impossible
90 exst gsrsts the inflmy of the whole
proceeding, from first to last II is unpar
alleled wickedness--a crime against human
ity, and fully illustrates to what profound
depths Of depravisy Republican leaders will
descend 10 gain partisan triumph. No one
objects 10 legitimate immigration to Indiana,
but this exodus flon North Carolina g
simply fendisb. 1t was conceived IN false
hood; it has brought forth a progeny of
cruei,isg, Of sufenngs, Of vilunies that
defy adequate description; aud these facts
We conclude will be brought out before the
investigating committee. Senator Voorhees,
by Bringing about this investigation de-
serves the applause Of the country He
hss dose bis State a great service, bat he
has done the poor dtluded blacks OF the
South far greater service. Facts will be
submitted TO a candid public that will
bring into haggard prominence the
deep damnaiion OF the Republican
scheme that will fiji the land with horror.
The St. L1uis Republican. in commenting
upon the expressions of some Republican
organ fagoring ths exodus 10 Indiana and
Kansss, remarks that ''at the very lowest
calculation fully one hslf-and probably
twc-thirds-of the emigrants thus far arc
paupsrs ana, consequently, dependent on
the charity % those among whom they nave
thrust themselves. at last accounts there
were 100 of them IN Kansas on the verge OF
starvation. The relie: hoard, which is said
20 have spent Sle. O0oin feeding and forward
iugtheir predecessors last spring and sum