The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-08-18

WILL be, kEQ OlRED To PERFORM
FOR AQUARTER OF THAT AMOUNT,
AND THE WHITE LAB0RER WILL
BE COMPELLED To LOOK ON IN 81
LENCE AND SEE HIMSELF AND
THOSE DEPENDENT UPON HIM ROB
| BED OF THE MEANS OF SUBSIST-
| BNCE THAT THE REPUBLICAN PAR
TY MAY GAIN A FEW VOTES IN
1880, ANDTHAT THE SOUTH MAYBE
| EMBARRASSED BY THE WANT OF
LABORERS. Democrats have opposed
this whole business of forcing mendicant
Southern negroes into this State. The move
ment is in direct conflict with the interests
OF the working people of the State, and OPP
posed to the welfare of the negro as we'll
For negroes from the South to come to Indi-
ana to support themselves, and of their own
free will, is one thing-to be forced here to
vote the Republican ticket, and to be sup
ported by private or public charity, is very
different thing. In opposing such an exodus
the Democratic party has been consistent,
and the more the subject is investigated the
more the people will be convinced that the
Democratic party is actuated by prudent con-
siderations-
FRED DOUGLASS OPINION OF THE EXODUS
During the time the exodus was in active
operation, Frederick Douglass, the leading
colored man of the country, now Marshal Of
the District of Columbia, wrote as follows:
L CAN NOT BUT REPEAT THE OP-
INION ALREADY OFTEN EXPRESS
ED-THAT ALL ORGANIZED EFFORT
AT THE NORTH DESIGNED TO
PROMPT AND PROMOTE FURTHER
STAMPEDE OF THIS SORT SHOULD
BE DISCOUNTENANCED. THESE
POOR PEOPLE SHOULD NOT BE DE.
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THEIR HOMES, ESPECIALLY AT
PROMISES EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED,
WISDOM, BUT MUCH FOLLY-NO
GOOD, BUT MUCH EVIL-IN BRING.
ING TO THIS CITY MULTITUDES
OF THESE PEOPLE, UNDER THE
IMPRESSION THAT WHEN THEY
REACH HERE MONEY WILL BE
RAISED AND FURNISHED THEM
TO PAY THEIR TRAVELLING EX-
PENSES TO THE NORTH, THE WEST
OR ELSEWHERE. THERE ARE HUN
DREDS AND THOUSANDS EVERY
| WHERE READY TO RIDE ON RAIL
ROADS AND TO VISIT DISTANT
CITIES If ASSURED IN ADVANCE
THAT THEIR RAILROAD FARES
, WILL BE PAID, AND THAT FOOD
AND SHELTER WILL BE PROVIDED
FOR THEM
THE SECOND REPUBLICAN SCHEME TO SWIM
DIE THE NEGRO
When Republican rascals concocted their
Freedman's Savings bank scheme, for the pur-
pose of robbing the negroes of their small
earnings, there was about the proceeding a
deliberate devilishness unparalleled in the
history of knavery; but this essential villainy
sinks to fathomless contempt compared with
the Internal cruelty of the Republican kid
nappers who are engaged in decoying the
pauper negroes from the South to Indiana.
These wheedled negroes are absolutely pau
pers, without money, provisions or seasonable
clothing.e They are, from the first, objects
Of charity, and must be supported at private
or public charge. They are the victims OF
| deceptions which, for base purposes and re-
! CARELESS of consequences, defy description.
They come-ssy the knaves who enticed
/ them away from their homes-to work, BUT
| EVERY DAYS WORK THEY OBTAIN Is JUST
| THAT MUCH DEDUCTEB FROM THE WHITE
| MEN OF INDIANA wrO ARE DEPENDENT UP
ON THEIR LABOR FOR SUPPORT. THE PLEA
THAT THERE'S ANYTHING CONNECTED WITH
| THE EXODUS OF SOUTHERN NEGROES TO IN
DIANA THAT BEARS AMY RESEMBLANCE TO
| Il
| TON is KNOWN TO BE INDUSTRIOUS FALSE
HOOD. The REPUBLICAN CONSIDERATIONS,
black AND WHITE, WHO ARE WORKING UP
| THE EXODUS ARE DOING 1T FOR THE PUR-
POSE OF INCREASING THE REPUBLICAN, VOTE
IN INDIANA, AND FOR NOTHING ELSE. To
accomplish their purpose they are subjecting
their black victims to hunger, cold, sickness
and death, in strange land, among strsng-
ers, where they are not wanted, and where
/ their labor is not in demand. The Republi
can scaiawags who are carrying forward the
business have no sense of right-neither sym
patty nor conscience. They want the ne
groes' votes in 1880, regardless of the suffer
ing their scheme entails upon the negroes
or white men. Fortunately, great many
| honest Republicans begin to comprehend the
condition Of affairs, and are setting their face:
| against the whole infamous business. e.
| THE BOTTOM FACTS OF THE EXODUS.
That the pauper exodus was from the first
manipulated by set of soulless Republican
scamps, black and white, there can be nc
question That they lied to the negroes is O
| fact that admits Of no controversy. And
the negroes now in Indiana, if permitted Il
testify, would make the infamous proceeding
so plain that even Republicans would b
compelled, in the interest of humanity, K
denouncs the piratical kidnappers with un
measured severity. These Republican ras
calls have gone among the ignorant paupel
negroes of North Carolina, and told then
that they were wanted in Indiana as farm
hands. That was a lie, and the rascals knew
it. They told them that they could at once
secure good homes, with gardens; that they
would be furnished with COW, and would
receive 81 to So per day as wages, in cash
These statements were hes-known to b.
lies at the time, and proved to be lies since
the poor, half-naked, half-starved pauper'
arrived IN the State. The Republican, kidndp
pers, in the employment Of Republican con
spirators and kraUes, made contracts loitl
railroads to ship the pdupers over certai,
lines at so much d head, receiui'lg bonus to1
their aOork an exhibition of nsercenay1
cruelty equGtled onty By the negro SteaLer,
tcho formerly entrapped the natires of Af
RIGA ia their jungLes, and shipped then
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