Year: 1876


louisville Correspondence Cincinnati Enquirer


Notwithstanding the repeated deni-
ais of the Republicans that they
are not importing voters to In
diana from this State and Tennessee
things have become so patent that it is
the general topic of conversation among
the people. Only three weeks ago ff-
teen hundred Kentucky negroes went
on an excursion to point in Indiana,
about five hundred returning. Investi-
cation among the negroes leaves no
doubt as to the purpose of the Repubi-
can managers here. Since last Friday
the Republicans have been busy here
trying to form companies of Ex-Union
colored soldiers and others not ex-soldiers,
for the ostensible purpose of joining the
organization of the Boys in Blue, and
taking part in Morton's jubilee at In
dianapolis on the Goth inst. This, how
ever, is merely blind. Information
perfectly reliable is received that the
negroes are being enlisted for sixty or
ninety days under Dix's organization,
and some made to believe that they are
to join the regular army. They are to
be supplied with regular soldiers uni
forms before going to Indianapolis, and
there given arms. The Superintendent
of the Jefersonville, Madison and In
dianapolis Railroad being prominent
Morton Republican, has put the rates
for the round-trip SO low that nearly all
the negroes can go, and those
unable are to be transported at
the expense of the Republican man
ayers. They are TO be paid one dollar
per dav for the term of enlistment, and
the Enquirer correspondent was told by
negro that white man offered to pay
him five dollars for his vote besides ex-
penses. Companies are being formed in
each ward OF the city under the charge
of regular officers. In this manner fully
two thousand five hundred negro voters
from Louisville can be sent to Indian
apolis, there to be distributed. One
member of the Republican Committee
here told white man if he would 60 on
the Committee of Transportation, go to
Indianapolis and report there to some
officer and look after the negroes, he
would find plenty of money there for all
purposes. Another white man named
John Hays, an ex-Union soldier, was
asked to enlist for sixty days and was
offered one dollar per day. He ewanted to
know what it was for. and what was to
be done at indianapolis. The reply was,
"After you sign and are sworn you will
find out" He refused to sign unless
proper information was given him. At
a meeting the other night at the Custom
house a muster-roll to muster in the men
for six months was shown, and the men
are to be enrolled, apparently, to go out
to the Indian country, but to remain in
Indiana for two months. Many negroes
really imagine that they are to join the
army, when there is no authorized re-
cruiting officer in the city. The leaders.
however, had been given to understand
that they are wanted in Indiana to vote
the Republican ticket. In addition to
the companies of colOred of Odd-fellows
and Masons 10 go to the Jubilee, some
have gone already. Tomorrow an ex-
cursion of three thousand negroes is
coming here from Southern Kentucky
on an excursion around this city, but
most of them will be shipped to points
in Indiana. The Democratic managers
here are doing all they can to put a stop
to the business, and hundreds of negroes
will be spotted in Indiana before the
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