Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1880-02-21
INVESTIGATION COMMITTEES.
The Colored Exodus.

The ColOred Exodus.
WASHINGTON, Feb. T.
James Buchanan Of indianapolis, a promi.
nent Greenbacker and member of tho Ma.
tlonal party OF Indiana, was examined. He
said the demand for labor in the State of In
diana is far short of the supply; that never
since 1873 had winter passed that the Su-
pervisors OF the Poor in the vicinity of In.
lianapolis were not called on to supply
food for able bodied men who would
be glad to earn living if they could
only get work. He was opposed to the ex-
odus because he believed the negroes were
not improving their condition by coming to q
state already over. supplied with labor. He
was not moved to hold this view because of
any prejudice against the black race, as he
mad been an Abolitionist until slavery was
abolished, and Republican until 1872. In
conclusion, he blamed the Republican leaders
OF the state Tor encouraging the movement.
Milton Nj. Holland, y member OF the Wash
ington Emigrant Aid Society, testified: Its
object was solely charitable, not to promote
immigration, but to aid immigrants; no po-
litical purpose was connected with It; on
their own request about GO immigrants were
bias 10 gents whatever. ~"
Samuel A; Perry, a dark mulatto, testified:
HE'S resident of North Carolina. The nc.
groes do not feel that they are well treated in
that State, and the exodus movement rs in.
auguiatcd to better theircondition. A colony
was formed, and Perry and Williams were
o'lb puN " tHl its uHtHlS W lOOk IOT u IOcutlOn,
their expenses being paid by the colony.
They stopped at Grccncastle, Ind, and were
there told by colOrcd men they could do
as well as further West. They accordingly
got out a lot Of circulars favOring emigration
TO Indiana, and went back to North Carolina
At camp meeting they distributed these cir
cuars. In reply to n question by Mr.. Voor-
hces, witness said he 81 mad never advised any
one to 90 to Indiana; he wrote home from In
diana to his friends that if he owned n lot in
Indiana and one in hell, he should sell the
Indiana lot and reside in hell" In reply TO
a question by Mr.. Window, witness said that
"thC cOlorcd people consider themselves I'M
fairly deprived of representation since the
Democrats got control OF Southern affairs.
They are DISTINGUISHED, to all intents and pur.
poses, rs completely as if the Fifteenth
Amendment had been repealed. 1t is in their
relations as citizens they complain of injus.
tice."
WASHINGTON, Feb. IL.
j. III. Russell, an undertaken from lndianan.
oils, testified that up to January -, or within
period of two months, there had been buried
at the expense of the county in which the city
OF Indianapolis is located from % to 30 men
women and children, from among
colOrCd emigrants who had arrived Mt In.
dianapOlis from North Carolina. They were
all buried as paupcrs, at an average expense
to the county of S5.l5 each. From reports
brought to him by men in his employ, and
IRON his own observations, he would say there
was great restitution among immigrants in
indianapolis.
james L. Baker OF indianapolis, Democrat
and Clerk in the State Auditors Office, and
Scott Ray, editor of the Shcibyyillc Ind.,
Democrat both testified regarding admissions
made by colOred emigrants and by Eepubli.
cans OF Indiana that the exodus was wHli0i
up for political effect