Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-27
SOUTHERN EXODUS.
HOW IL WAS WORKED UP.


WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.-Investigation Of the
causes Leading TO the colored exodus from the
South was continued by the special Senate
committee yesterday. Mr.. Ontny, colored
man from North Carolina, testified: felt that
we had been used long enough by both poiltl-
cal parties as tools. l knew that the former
use of us had not redounded to our advantage
in the South. As one man we had voted the
Republican ticket, and our reward was buck
shot from the ku klux, and no protection from
the national government. Hence, was oppos-
ed to a longer use of my people by any politl-
cal party and as soon as L saw that the exodus
was TO be used politically, withdrew from the
society. There were others III the society who
afterwards expressed the same sentiments, but
they remained in the organization.
He then informed the committee that when
the exodus from North Carolina first began he
addressed letter to the most prominent COL
ored men in the State, asking what caused this
sudden uprising. All answers were that there
was no cause for it, that the more Ignorant
were deceived by three men named Perry, VIII
Gams and TAYLOR, who had been North, and re-
turned with such glowing news that the people
couldn't resist them. An investigation re
,ealed the fact that these three men
had been among the most ignorant of the coun-
try people, aud had told them that the United
States government wanted them to go to lndl-
ana and would give them money to begin
with; that they would receive 81. 81 per day
during the winter, and from 81 TO SOU dur
ing the spring, summer and fall. Some VINO
hesitated were told that they would receive
rev suits of clothing at Washington. These
men registered the names of those consuming
70 90. charging them from % cents to 81, ac-
cording to their ability to pay. They
called meetings in country churches
held with closed doors and bound to secresy
those whom they had delutcd. The tlrst batch
that went, few il number, were well received
and Immediately employed. These wrote back
to their friends advising them to come and
hence, said witness, it is easy to understand
the great exodus from North Carolina.
Mr. Otuy in the course of his further state
ments, described conversations personally held
by him in North Carolina, during the past few
weeks, with James Ii. Harris, Osborne Hunter.
Jr j. NJ. Turner and other very prominent
coored men, and with Gov. Holden, Richard
Badger and Colonel Ike Young,
nromirent Radical politicians in
fpII accord with the foregoing
explanation of the real cause of the exodus.
They all likewise agreed that the condition OF
the colored people of North Carolina, although
susceptible of improvement by the comtemp
lated by the e9 some o, of the AVS to
elect certain county officers, Is II h.. whole
highly favorable, and that there is no adequate
incentive whatever for colored people to leave
tie State In fact, said witness, every intelli-
gent colored man i'll the State is opposed to it,
and the six colored newspapers Of North Caro-
lima are all fighting it, and say that, although
an exodus from the Southern States may be
blessing, the exodus from North Carolina is a
fraud and curse.
While testifying to the existence of most
kindly relations between the white and col
ored people of North Ca,olina, he described
the ibeeal provision made by the North Caro-
lima legislature, largely upon Gov. Vance's
recommendation, for the education of the col
ored people, both in the common and normal
schools and for the benefit of colored deaf and
dumb, blind and insane, and after speaking of
number of colored lawyers who had made
name at the bar, doctors who have lucrative
practice, farmers who own their farms and
carry their own cotton to Market
he continued: | lived in the
west two and half years and L never saw in
Raleigh, North Carolina, such a poor, ignor-
ant class of colored people. There wero many
rich colored men there. There were colorei
men doing good business, but the poor peo-
pie were poorer than any l ever saw at any
town in North Carolina. Now this was in their
heaven, My God what will they do in Indiana,
which State up to within few years had a law
IN her statute books that negro couldn't live
in the State. The witness will be cross-exam-
ined by Senator Blaine Friday, to which date
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