Year: 1879

Especial Correspondence OF the uamocratl
LEAvENwoRTH, May 49, 1879.


After protracted visit IN Kansas City.
Mo-, your correspondent arrived at this point
a few days ago.


During my stay In Kansas City | noted
with pleasure the business activity and COM
mercial enterprise manifested by the citizens
OF that town. The city named, Within the
past few years, has come to be the most
thriving place and important market. st.
Louis excepted, from the western shores Of
the Mississippi to the Rocky mountains.


In arriving at Its present position the town
has had many obstacles to surmount and
much to discourage the efforts made for Its
advancement by its citizens. The railway
system there centered Is a most extraordi-
nary exhibition Of the enterprise OF this coun-
try Twelve important lines Of railroad pass
through or have their terminl In the town !;
OF these the chief is the Kansas Pacific A
few weeks ago over four thousand Russian
immigrants passed through the place on
their way to the fields and farms OF the
West.


Since the arrival Of your correspondent In
Leavenworth he has gathered from few In





concerning the negro emigration movement
which he believes to be worthy OF credence.
The information is to the effect that, when
the late civil war closed, the New England
Emancipation Society, the Exeter Hall Abo-
ltion Society and other alleged philanthrop-
lie corporations and combinations, finding
that slavery was abolished they had no fur
tber plea for maintaining their organization,
cast about for some other means OF sustain
ing themselves. They first Invented the COM
- ha ErnnI,nunic Hurao,l
The fate Of this, with the great bulk of So
ciety donations and individual deposits, Is too
well known to require further notice In this
correspondence.


The failure OF the Freedman's Bureau
cast the societies named into gloom but not
despair. They had helped to gather the
charities Of the people to be wasted in this
source after passing through the hands OF
their own managers. Their collections were
forced to suspend when there was nothing to
ostensibly eXpend them for. However, new
project was started, and the attempt was
made to promote an exodus Of the colored
race To Liberia. The failure Of this project
was emphatically demonstrated after the ar
rival Of q few sable pilgrims on their ances-
tral soil. After attempting further removals
of the laboring classes from State to State In
the South. and seeking to disturb the indus
trial systems Of that section by every means
possible which did. not involve the
that they had collected under this cloak
Of charity, the societies cast about for new
projects whereby they could enlist the sym
pathies and strike the pockets Of the people.
1t is stated that the emigration movement
lately organized was especially under their
fostering care as 1t became necessary to
secure funds to keep the officers of their or
ganizations in means. Thus the negro move
ment has been kept prominently before the
public by these societies, who appeal To- the
charities of the country on the ground that
the negro race Is suffering from the outrages
OF political persecution, and that his sus-
tenance and support is not granted by his
employers in the South.


However, as this late exodus has virtually
ceased, what will be the next move on the
part Of these professional humanitarians2
Whatever it may be will, as in the past, bode
no good to the Southern people, who are SO
bitterly hated by them. N.