The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-06-02
SENATOR VOORHEES, AND THE EXODUS
COMMITTEE

! hees to pretend That he was actoateo Dy mo
tives OF good Will toward the colored people; 1t
was fraud TO assume that they had not the
same right as other American citizens 10 move
from State to State; ii was a fraud to charge
that the Republican party was in any way re-
sponsible for the movement; and 1t was a
fraud on the part OF Mr.: voorhees, TO summon
Washington to testify as witnesses; It was a
fraud to spend $4,000 OF the peoples money IN
any such business; and, finally, this pyramid
of fraud is fitIy crowned by the disappearance
] of the official reporter of the Committee with
the notes OF the investigation, making IL I'm
possible for the testimony to be written out
Journal
The John c. New organ has out loose again
on Ssnatar VOORHEES, and the exodus investi-
CATION. The New organ is not particular as
to its methods of attacking Democrats when
its squirt gun is charged to the muzzle with
the filth of its brain sewers. That Mr..
VOORHEES, is infsllible is not asserted by his
warmest friends and most enthusiastic ad-
mIrers but that he is as free from error as
Oliver p. Morton, whose place in the United
States Senate he more than fills, is con-
coded by all men who are capable. of appre-
ciating the difference between honesty and
dup licity. The exodus investigation was
demanded by large majority OF the Repuo-
Iican Senators, who voted with Mr.. Voorhees,
to raise the Committee. II it was a fraud. as
the New Journal says, then Republicans
were jointly responsible for it. But the ex-
odus investigation was not fraud; it was
not deception. The proposition was made
in open Senate; the purpose was fully ex-
planned, and Republican Senator'S, almost to
a man, voted for it. Hence there was no
stIa!agem, deceit or trick. TIE Exodus
! Committee was demanded by acts of Repub.
lican scoundrelism; by the political knavery
/ Of the leaders OF the Republican party in
Indiana and elsewhere. These political
scamps knew that Indiana was
a Democratic State, and by sll fair means
I irrevocably Democratic State, and IN lock-
/ ing about for means to rescue it from Demo
cratic control, these Republican miscreants
hit upon the plan of importing pauper ne.
/ groes to Indiana to vote the Republican
| ticket That was the contemplated fraud,
the bold villainy, the partisan scoundrelism,
that Senator Voorhees, proposed to expose,
and has exposed. In this connection, il Is
only necessary to reproduce portion of the
testimony OF Mr.. Thomas P. Mills. OF Indi
annapolis a leading Republican, who dared
to tell the truth. Mr.. Mills testimony gives
the lie direct to every charge made by the
New Journal. Here is what he said, and we
challenge the New Journal to contradict Mr..
Mills testimony:
Q.-You have been in favor of emigration?
Ayes. sir. TWAS VERY MUCH IN IA
XoR OF IT. 1 TOLD TIE BOYS WHEN
WANTED 10000 BUCKS" BUCK NIGGERS,
IN INDIANA THIS YEAR.
Q.-You mean to say that you wanted 10000
in onGYe aiI HS6 No No USE FOR woMENq A
Q.-You had no idea OF LABOR connected
Of labor: was Lo6KlE$ For VOTES;
Al wanted them to vote, Of course.
Q.-ARE YOU A REP UBLICAN? AYES,
Q-And you thought if you could get 10000
"bucks" you would Stay us? Al THOUGHT
WE WOULD GET AWAY WITH YOU EVER
Q.-Have you mixed with them much since
they came here? A.-The colored folks?
Q,-Yes. A.No, sir; except at the depot.
We have one Office near the depot, and wnen
a gang was coming in would go down there
and see them.
.Q..;Hsve they come in as fas. as sQu de.
sired? A.-rhey have not come In as L wanted
them 10.
ana children than You wanted2 A;-1es, sir;
they have rather overdone the thing In the
women and children.
o. want 10 ask YOU whether the RepublI-
Pi % ws tine w aP PS
it in a different wayNW HETHER THESE
VIEWS OF YOURS WHICH YOU HAVE
FRANk1Y' ARE SHARED IN By ~: THE FL IL
TELLIGENT REPUBLICANS IN YOUR
| STATEg Al think they are as individuals.
Mr.. Mills ssts forth clearly and distinctly
toe scheme OF the leaders of the Republican
party to import pauper negroes to vote the
Republican ticket. The nefarious scheme,
according to Mr. Mills, had no other signif.
canoe. The Republican leaders did not
want women and children, only bucks"
and q, 600 OF them were demanded by the
Intelligent Republicans of the State" The
fraud to be perpetrated was, out and out, a
Republican fraud, Republican villainy, a
Republican rascalIty to defeat the Demo
cratic party, and to accomplish their purpose
Republican reprobates were willing to see
pauper negroes kidnapped In North Carolina
and shipped to Indiana, like swine, in mid
winter, without proper clothing. without food
or money, to endure cold, hunger, sickness
and death, IL thereby few votes could be Sc
cured for the Republican party. To put an
end to this detestable business; to stop this
Republican cruelty, and to expose the afro
cious schemes of the leaders of the Re-
publican party in Indiana, was not
only TO exhibit good will toward
the poor negroes, the victims Of Republican
wickedness, but it was due to Indiana,
where such immigrants were not wanted.
Mr.. Mills testimony and the testimony Of
others demonstrates, beyond all question.
that the Republican party of Indiana was
engaged in the damnsble business, and now
we ask John c. New, Chairman Of the Re-
publican State Central Committee, and
therefore. q fit representative of the party, if
IL he was not directly or indirectly mixed
up with the scsndalous business?
Didn't you, Mr.. New. contribute money to
help on the pauper exodus2 Didn't you,
too. want ''20. 900 buck niggers" to vote the
Republican ticket, and to "everlastingly get
away with the Democratic party?" Are not
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