Daily globe., 1880-01-16
FOLDING THEIR TENTS"
That's What Many Negroes arc Doing IN
Kansas, and They Are Silently Stealing
3tCay.

That's What Many Negroes are Doing IN
Kansas, and They Are Silently Stealing
4tOay.
Dallas (Tex.) Herald.
The reaction of the exodus movement on
the part of the cOlored people from this State
to Kansas has set in in earnest, and every train
coming South brings some of them back
Those that emigrated were principally from
Union depot a Herald reporter met with an old
negro man named Edmund Burleson, who had
gone with eight others of his race from Burle-
son county the 18th of November. They
went by rail to Parsons. where they found q
large number of their race quartered in the
churches, schoOl-houses, and other buildings
not permanently occupied, like a lot of sheep
huddled together. There were temporary
structures of plank not much larger than q
shed in which a large number of them
were living. Every empty house In
paying their railroad fair, with but few excep-
tions, none of them had any money left, and
when the cold snap came on their suffering
was terrible. The night before he left Parsons
one of their number frOze to death. The cold
was intense and their clothing being thin and
their bed clothing skimpy, they suffered &C.
verely. Destitute and penniless they have
try for food to keep them alive. and would
have frozen to death had they not stolen coal
from the railroad. Their depredatiOns on the
settlers have caused an ill feeling on the part
of the residents toward them, and they are
feeling the effects of their displeasure. He
says that it took cash. and lots of it. to pur-
chase the bare necessities of life. The only
thing he saw that was cheap was corn, which
sells at from ten to twenty-eIght cents q bush
el. There we're many of them together
that it was impossible for them to get work at
any price. Land rents are required to be paid
cash down, and the rates are generally from
| three to four dollars an acre. Lands that
rent at this price are without fences or houses
of any kind. He thought the lands of Texas
far superior while they produced greater
variety. II would not, SO far as l am concern
ed, give Burleson county for the whole of
Kansas, said the old man with much earnest
| ness. They wish themselves back but the
| trouble is they spent all their money getting
| there and but very few have anything to get
away on. He went from Parsons to Emporia,
| where he found the same state of affair exist
ing. There numbers of them leavingfevery
day afoot and without means, walking
| through to this State on their
return home One of the women that
accompanied him was sent back by her hus-
| band, who had barely enough money to pay
her passage while he is coming through afoOt.
GuS WuOlc AudttcI dS pOlltiCdl
movement engendered by the Republicans for
| the purpose of swelling the vote of Kansas. In
his opinion the seeds of discomfort were sowed
at the convention held at Houston in July last
by tie colored people, by white and colored
politicians. The main instrument in his coun-
ty in quilting his race into leaving their homes
| was Horace Ruby, Jim-crow politician and a
| school teacher. The poor, deluded blacks are
awakening to their true situation, and are be-
ginning to realize that they have been in.
veigled there for no other purpose than
TO secure their votes. Parson Duncan,
the sable politician so we'll and unfavora-
by known to the blacks of this city,
has been one Of the principal agitators in the
movement. He was stationed for a while at
Denison to receive and rob his race as they
passed out of the State. He would take their
money to purchase their tickets, and represent
ed invariably that it cost more than it did. He
was caught up with and arrested, but ON re-
turning the amount he had stolen he was set at
liberty. He is wanted at Parsons for some of
his crookedness, but slOped, and has not yet
been apprehended. Az for himself, the old
man said that he was going back to Bnrleson
county tn stay