Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1880-03-10
THE OTHER SIDE or TIE
MOUTH.

act inside view of the negro exodus
case in this way;
The loud, hollow laugh effected by
the Republicans when the exodus in.
vestigation was proposed has ceased
to break upon the startled air and no
longer beats rudely against the public
tympanum.
1t was never healthy laugh. 1t
was not the product of joyous feeling,
and was not endowed with the infec-
tious quality of genuine merriment
One is more likely to hear such a
sound issuing from the grated cell of a
maniac than from the hoodlum gallery
of variety theatre. AT an early pc
riod of its misshapen career It showed
a strong tendency to migrate. ltdidn't
exactly exodus, like the blacks, but il
gradually effected change of base,
and, for some days past, has been To-
Gated on the other side of the facial
orifce, where it shows up only in
shrill quayers suggestive of the hilari-
ty of sick hyena,
The cause OF this sudden and solemn
letting down is quite sufficient. In
fact, IT has an abundant amplitude that
satisfactorily accounts for the decisive
effects produced. The exodus mvesti.
cation has been bringing out solid
array of facts. Like the projectiles Of
heavy artillery, these facts have been
hurled against the fimsy walls Of
falsehood and calumny with which
the actual purpose Of the exodus was
thinly disguised.
One Of these lies was that tho blacks
were driven from North Carolina by
cruel persecution, The whites of that
State are said to be banded together as
mighty league to do all manner of
wicked things to their colored neigh.
bors The blacks toiled and the whites
lived in idleness on the fragrant sweat
of their honest and unctuous brows.
The poor negro--the same son of
Adam for whom Mr.. Hayes dropped
his tears when be learned that Mr..
Tilden was elected--was compelled to
SOW and reap and gather into stacks,
while the whites sold the products of
the harvest and put the money in their
pockets.
1t was always turkey for the white
man, always crow for the negro,
From such heartless taskmasters and
such relentless persecution the blacks
so the fearful story ran-were iee'
ing as the children OF Israel fled from
the bondage of Egypt, only the blacks
were not able to bring off any plumber.
And the Radicals, the statesmen, poll
ticians and strikers Of that party Of
progress and reform, the men who
munifcently endowed each head of a
colored family in the South with dor
ty acres and mule" the men who
grandly opened up the portals OF the
Freedman's bank, 80 that the earnings
I
OF the enfranchised race might be kind
ly and permanently cared for-these
world-rcnowned philanthropists met
the eexodusting band in their hour ofwoe
and pointed them to the promised land
in Indiana; not for any gain or hope
of gain in this life, but for the satisfac.
ton OF doing good to the poor, the
down.trodden.
II was q glorious display of dis.
interested benevolence, and one can.
not help regretting that the heavy pro-
iectiles from the battery of truth,
Iohovo msr,ionsd have hot,erod n
down and sco,,ered /, 10 tho wild
,r,nas p,, snoh hos hoon ;,s fo,o
ona,Lo po.Lan;es and chodhords "a
,ho E,.;,ro,;on Aid socie,v and ,beir
runorons coodin,ors arc wa;liny over
,ho .n;na :, ,bo;r e,r,;s.,,;ons 10
,hO o,;donco of leading colorod Rennb
,;oon. e.ou, Nor,h corol;no ,,vo ,roo,
,.a,a 49, hao, 90 ell, 90, mn ,ho,
~, ,,;,, o,ona al ill., Tho aro,
ae ;ho.o = ,L., ,ho hl.oLs % ,h.,
c,.,o. ,roa,od ,,;,h a. mrob Liod
49,. :. a. ,nh,,o.. .nd ,ho sooona q
a.. a. o~od,,. ,,,as s,ar,oa ond nrah
"a h., pod;o.I no,;,;o;ans co. ,ho colo
- 90 -. - Ind;ona
- - 5,.aaoe,, a., s,a,on
W. horo no, anooo 90 ro,;o,v ,ho
,o.,;,,o,,, ,,roso,,da !, 10. al ,ond
"a to nyoro ,ho, IN no ether nar, os
the Union are the negroes so well off
as in the old North State. and that
there would have been no thought of
exodus If tho Radicals of Indiana had
not wanted voting material. The evi.
dence of Mr.. Otey. a colored school.
teacher and editor from North Caro-.
lima, fairly samples the whole. He
testifcs to the exceptionally kind
treatment of his race by the whites of
North Carolina Not only in their
private business transaotions but in