Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-05-07
Too Heavy Il Draught,

| lHoSe narrow gauge radical
schemers who fomented the exodus
fever in North Carolina for the pur.
pose of getting voters out of the
South before the census, and into
Indiana in time to take part in the
election of 1880, are a gang of brass.
mounted hypocrites, compared with
whom Heep, Hayes and Pecksnifi
would pass for honest men.
After thorough exposure of their
plans, after the most respectable
and intelligent colored Republicans
have testified to all that any Demo.
crat has ever charged against the in
citers and managers of the exodus,
after it has been shown that the col
ored people were contented ana pros
porous until the emisaries of Radi-
calism went among them and filled
their credulous minds with false
promises, after it has been demon
strated that blacks are treated with
more kindness and liberality in
North Carolina than in any Northern
State, after all the general features
and many details of the plot to "re-
deem Indiana are put before the
country in the statements of colored
Republicans who have testified be-
fore Mr.. Voorhees, committee, after
the Radical plotters have been shown
up as the most stupendous liars of
the day, after all their fimsy masks
of falsehood and slander have been
torn to shreds and they are left
naked as targets for the contempt of
honorable men, after they are de-
feated, routed, demoralized and driv-
Ell in confusion from their last in
trenchment of falsehood and rascal
ity-after all this has passed from
the region of speculation to the do
main of fact, this sniveling, whining,
canting crew of double-turreted hyp-
ocrites are still heard drawling out
their seli-evident, preposterous and
montrous lies about the " charitable
methods by which philanthropists
have sought to relieve the miseries
of their fellow-men.
1t was pure philanthropy that
urged the Emigration Aid Society to
bend its efforts to getting the colored
people out of the South before the
census of 1850. 1t was unselfsh
generosity that indnced Radical COM
mittees and emisaries to expatiate on
the Importance of fdepriving the South
of political strength. 1t was moth
ing but the Christian statesman's
way of relieving the miseries of
his fellow-men," when the colored
voters of North Carolina were
shipped like hogs or cattle to rein
force the suffering Radical minority
in Indiana.
One might possibly believe in the
honesty of the man who murdered
innocent children in order that they
might be sure of heaven. One
might stretch charitable credulity
so far as to take stock in the SINGER
ity of the party who stole his neigh
boris money for fear that the neigh
Dor might make bad use of it and
imperil bis salvation. One might be
induced to subs cribe to the true
goodness of the Western Judge who
sentenced man to be hung on the
day after his trial, because the wea-
ther was cold and there was no
chance for fire to keep him COM
Portable in Jail. One might be SO
carried away with enthusiasm as to
take a few shares of stock in tele-
phonic connection of the planets of
our system or a bridge to the moon.
But when this crew prate their
pusillanimous platitudes about phil
anthl lophy, and talk of relieving
the miseries of their fellow-men,"
they defy the maximum stretch of
human credulity, and make honest
cowhide itch for chance to pay its
respects to their persons. Washing'
ton Post.