The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1880-02-13
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j any nYthlnS out y pohtical Scheule. Sun
ator Voorhees, committee has been en-
gagged in the inquiry for some time, and
a good deal of evidence pointing to the
above conclusion has been taken, but
the thing was most beautifully elinched
on Monday of this week, when Charles
n. Outey, eolored, the editor Of the
Washington Argus, gave his testimony.
1 would like to give his statement in
full were it possible, but to briefly SUM
marize He said he was one Of the
founders of the National Emigrant Aid
Society; the first intimation he had that
the exodus movement was being work
ed up at both ends was when a member
of the society laid before one of their
meetings proposition to ''send about
5000 into Indiana, as that was a very
doubtful State in the coming election"
He then addressed letters to prominent
colored men in North Carolina asking
what was the cause of this sudden up.
rising. The replies came that there
was no cause for it, and that the ignor-
ant negroes were being led into it by
three men named Perr,, Williams, and
Taylor, who got up secret meetings and
represented to tho dnpes that the Gov
ernment wanted them to go TO Indiana;
that they would get from 81 so to Sa.25
per day and new suits of clothes when
they got to Washington. These three
lying emissaries were the paid agents
of the Radical party. MIR. outey said
that when he learned all these facts he
} withdrew from the society. He added
! that he had conversed in North Carroll
5 ma during the past few weeks with
James H. Harris, Osborne Hunter, Jr.
II. V. Turner and other very promi.
nent eolored men, and with Governor
Holden, Richard Badger and Colonel
Ike Young, prominent radical Republi-
cans, and all fully accord with the fore
going explanation of the real causes OF
the exodus. They all likewise agreed
that the condition cf the people Of
North Carolina is ON the whole highly
favorable, and that there is no adequate
incentive whatever for the colored peo-
pie to leave that State "In fact,
f said the witness, ''every intelligent col.
: ored man in the State is opposed to It,
5 and the six colored ncwspaporsof North
Carolina are fighting it; and say that,
though an exodus from some Of the
Southern States may be blessing, the
exodus from North Carolina IS a fraud
and curse"
Add to this the testimony Of Judge
Carleton, of Terre Haute, and we have
all that is necessary to be said on the
exodus question. The Judge said be
was well acquainted with the people
and with the condition of things in that
portion of Indiana; there is no present
demand for farm hands or any other
kind of unskilled labor; on the contra
, ry, there is an over supply, and the
feeling Of the people, including num-
: Der Of old colorcd residents with whom
he has eonversed, is decidedly avcrse to
the immigration of destitute eolored
/ people like the North Carolina immi-
grants in question, and especially as the
] general impression is that they are
brought there only to vote.
General Sherman has got himself into
a libel suit, and one in which the SYM
patby and sound sense of the commu-
nifty is all against him, notwithstanding
his high position. Ever since General
Boynton puncturcd his egotistical ''BIe-
moirs" by facts compiled from the rec
ords Of the War Department and other
5 reliable sources, General Sherman has
shown degree of vindictiyencss tow
t ards him seldom exhibited by intelli-
9 gent men. Recently Gen. Grant has
4 sustained Boynton in his statement that
Grant and not Sherman originated the
/. plan of the march to the sea, and this
SO revives the latters anger that he
+ charged Boynton in a newspaper inter
r view with being capable of any wicked.
ness for money that he could be
bought for 81, 900. General Boyntoa
IS the correspondent Of the Cincinnati
u Gazette, and one of the most cultivated,
$ reliable and respected journalists in
Washington. Gen. Sherman has made
a himself the author Of as untruthful
/ and coarse an attack upon a gentleman
:. as has ever been published, and he
ought to be made to suffer the penalty
y Of his wickedness. Many men would
have arrested him at once on a criminal
b charge, but Gen. Boynton has chosen
the dignifed part, and from respect fol
9 the high rank Of his assailant, takes
him before tribunal where he can gel
vindication without bringing any in
: dignity upon the General of the Army
: The suit ought To be of interest to al
newspaper correspondents here, for it i
. too much the habit of public men agains
. whom any charge is brought bv th,