The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1880-08-14

despairing yell INDUCED by The Sem
tinel last Monday. 1t seems to indi-
cate that the Democracy feel that
something heavy is goil 6 to drop,
and that they are going to get hurt
AS usual when anything untoward
happens to a Democrat, or to Democ-
racy, ga niger done it." The Sentinel
bourbons feel that the State is slipping
from their fingers, and they want to
place the blame as usual on the negro.
What cross the Negro has to bear in
this world for the benefit of the
Democratic party. Surely, his re-
ward ought to be a thousand fold
when he reaches the shades of the
New Jerusalem. But hear the Senti-
mel:
- White men by thousands were
tramping along all the highways of the
State, vainly seeking for work and wages.
Their wives and children were fighting star.
walton. A benefcent God had ivouchsafed
seed-time and harvest. Food was abundant
but the white laborers of Indiana were toe
poor to purchase. Wages, at best, were
down to starvation level. There was cry
for bread, for clothes, for shelter. The poor
houses were full to ovetfowing; the iails
were crowded. Crime had increased, an6
penitentiaries had not cell-room. There was
hunger and poverty. The sherIff's hammer
was telling in mournful numbers that mort
cages were being foreclosed. The music o.
machinery was hushed; industries were par
alyzed; the Republican curse was abroad il
the land; the poor were in rags, houselesl
and homeless; public and private charities
were exhausted; there was mendicancy ev
erywhere. In this cherries winter of dis
content, when Indiana had thousands O
furnishing poor, men and women, pleading
for work, the managers Of the Republican
party conceived the idea OF importing intt
the State thousands of pauper negroes from
North Carolina
They came in mid-winter flor il
was necessary to calculate time), without
proper clothing, without food without money
they came in one long stream of pauperism
of filth and restitution; they came to grave.
in an inhospitable cime-a mass of human
ity enduring all the agonies of privation Il
vote the Republican ticket.
A starving, freezing negro would
do for twenty-five cents what was worth
dollar, and take his pay in food fl
only for swine; and while he was engaged
the white laborer had to retire, until he
like the pauper negro. frenzied by hunger
and the wailings of his helpless wife ant
children, was forced to compete with tn,
pauper negro for work at any price. Blu
such scenes throughout Indiana had no efec
upon the Republican managers. They hat
determined to ''everlastingly get away witt
the Democratic party" by importing "bucl
niggers," and they were going to do il if thu
bones of negroes and white laborers bleachet
in the storms of winter on every foot of TIT
way from North Carolina to Indianapolis.
Time was when Democrats did mo-
talk in this style about the coming o
Negroes. Has the Sentinel forgotten
that Democrats formerly went to AT
RIGA, and through murder and robbery
oft he foulest kind, brought away hel
dusky sons and daughters, the former
W OC nCWcIS VI WOOu StllQ QTdWCIi
of WATER" and the latter to be TIT
mothers of children sired by whit,
Democrats of the South? Ithas beer
less than twenty years ago, if our mem
Dry serves us correctly, since Gordon
Democrat, was tried, convicted, sen
fenced and hanged by a Republican
Administration, in the face of lOut
and long demands from the Democati'
party for his pardon, for bringing Ne
groes to this country against theil
will. And these Negroes, TOO, wer'
to be used as laborers to the detriment
according to the way the Sentinel ar
CUES, of the ''poor white laborers' o
the South. If our contemporary will
only think about these matters; taxi
retrospective view, as it were; it will
discover its own inconsistency, an(
cease violating the earlier tradition
of its party.