New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-03-13


was to appeal to some other Government outside oil
the United States to help as away from this couh-
try, to 90 there and live under their flag"
He said the negroes did not lose all hope OF bet
terinp their condition until 1877 and only then be-
cause they saw the Southern State Governments
pass under the control OF and into the hands OF the
very same men who had owned them as slaves. I'D
that year they petitioned both Congress and Presl
dent Hayes. Not hearing anything from the pe1i-
tiOn. they talked the matter over and the leelns
prevalent among the negroes. he said' was
to go away anywhere in Gods woilu u
get away from these men," They held public meet
ings in Shreveport, but permitted no speakers to
address the meetings except those who favored emil
grafton. Colored ministers and colored politicians
generally opposed emigration and he supposed the
reasan they opposed the movement was because
they wanted our support and our votes"
The witness said he knew of no letters from
Northern politicians advising the negroes to emil
CRATE.
THE reason" he sad d" that so many Of our peo-
ME are going away is because a large majority OF
white people who held slaves treat our people so
badly. In many parts of that country our people
might as well be slaves as free" He thought over
5000 had already emigrated from Louisiana, and
that the movement was on the increase. Ihe
fear was prevalent among negroes III DIS
section of the State that Democratic
President would be elected, ana theh
the condition of the colored people would be still
worse than at present and it would also be moro
difficult for them to emigrate. This feeling, he
thought was stimulating and Fastening the exodus
now. He had heard from number OF emigrants
who had gone to Kansas. Nebraska and Colorado
and they reported that they were better satisfied
there than in Louisiana. and none that he knew OF
.1,nir T.ian n1G
movement.
Adams's testimony was not concluded TODAY.
Much of it was necessa rily of general character.
relating to the methods by which large Republican
maiorties were overcome IN the Louisiana parishes.
After the session of the committee came to an end
q correspondent of THE TRIBUNE learned that the
witness had prepared awritten statement which he
will put in evidence tomorrow. few eX-
tracts from this document will probably
give a better idea than Is usually
attainable of the state of opinion the colorcd
people of Louisiana which leads them TO think OF
leaving for a more favorable locality This, in fact,
is the object of the exodus investigation:
"In the year 1866 in the parish of Caddo, State
of louisiana seen hanging to limb of an oak
tree, about six miles south from Shreveport, the
body of a colorcd man. lie was dead when seen
him.
wagon belonging to a coored man burned with all
his things Even his mules were burned to death.
while on my way to Sunny Grove | seen the
head of a colored man laying side the road
whilst travelling my way to DeSoto
Parish large body of armed white men met
me and asked me who l belonged to.
answered them and told them that be
longed TO God, but not to any man. They then
asked me where was my master. told them the
one used to have dead and have not had
none since 1853 i worked for those who wonld
hire me and pay the largest price. as i was sun q
slave and during the time | was passing through
this parish, black man was not aHoWed 10
preach the Gospel anywheres any more
than he was before 1865 lie had to preach
and and What What they told him to preach Ny
father was n preacher, and he IS even until
most of them-Says they cannot preach the Gospel
rs they WISH for the white people did not, nor 90
not, allow them to do il; for tne whit
men say the preachers make Incaner nlg-
ger and that they cannot rule the Niger.
have heard them tell the colored men TO not preach
such doctrine as that TO the niger because the mig
ger will get above himself aud above Their business;
and if you do yOn ale III danger OF losing your own
life. -, ,o .ro,. nsoa 90 ,ho
colorcd preacher, for they said they Will not
stand such TO be preached. They tod me that !
must give up alh-that got to them because thoH
had the law in their hands TO take all
of what a niger had. So they said TO me
Give us yonr money ard your whskcy,
your horse. and then you can live, but u You
don't Won have got tD de right here .; 50 hdd to
give il up to them to save my life. and thcn re-
ported to the Courts but the law would not do any
$50 the next incident what | saw was when
was passing a place, | saw white men
whipping eoored men, just tSe S4me tTccdo as
i'm This State. ! saw white men heating col
orcd man because lie had been United STATES
soldier. They beat hm all but to death. That W
l.. - s1dl NJ nfsp0
of De Soto. did not know his name, but heard
him cry. SAYING. Will not ever soldier again no
more II you w!I not F aid ndinr. 'S IN ''de 1be
United States Army and the officers OF inc Army
also. ,,.., ,u,, oo,,.;,, and ,ovso,f ,voro On
our way to LOgansport, DE Soto Parish, and about
ore mile from that place we were suITouuded ny SIX
armed white men who taken us, and then
demanded us 10 give up watches. Manuel nav
ing his watch in sight, they took the watch from
him; but they did not see any watch on
ms for money; but we did not have any, they
told us If we ever told any one about IL that Ihcy
would Kill on the first sight, and asked us II we
had rather die than to keep that 10 ourselves. We
told them that we had rather give them all we had
in The world than to die and 20 to hell They said
that were right, to keep II to ourselves
"The next incident OF importance that came be
meath nv observation was the finding of ten fif-
teen cOlored men floating in Red River. 1his was
In the wear 1866. Some of them was tied by the
sides Of logs some with ropes round their necks;
some of them was shot, and some of them had their
throats cut. This was between a plantation
called Goldpant and Shreveport, on the parshline
of Caddo and BOsslcr.
"In 1870 | seen white man buy a bale OF
cotton from cOlOred man, weighing 800 pounds,
and PAID him only $25 for #, and cotton was then
worth 20 cents per pound"
The ABOVE are specimen extracts taken at ran
dom. The document is v0lumln0us aud Is accom-
panied with aflidavits of other coored men WHO
have left Louisiana for Northern states: The
nfiidavits embody briefly the reasons for their de-
parturc. They procured by Adams III his
of
whole forms one of the most sweeping stories oi
political and race outrage yet made public
SLAVERY IN CHINA.