Decatur Democrat, Volume 24, Number 20, Decatur, Adams County, 19 August 1880 — Page 10

=♦- © e © £ © Ji a> O »f-4 -*“* i m ■llh. < fa. - 1 <’ * ID TUK CLABBOF MER WHO FOR YKAKS ILIL.PT T£TK SOITTBr IST TROUBLE, BY EXCITIKQ THE PREJUDICES OF THE NEGBOEB AGAINST THE THE WHITES, THAT MURDER MIGHT VITALIZE THEIR BLOODY SHIRT HARANGUES. THEY ARE NOT IMPLACABLE ENEMIES OF WHITES AND BLACKS, AND THEIR NEFARIOUS SCHEMES SHOULD BE EXPOSED. • THE ONLY EXCUSE FOR THEIR COMING. J The people of Indiana, .Republicans as well as Democrats, have very clear perceptions with regard to the importation of Southern pauper negroes into this State. The cry about the necessity for more farm hands is as vile a falsehood as was ever told. Nowhere in the State, from the Ohio river to Lake Michigan, has there been a call during the past six years for farm hands in excess of the local supply. Instead of more laborers ing in demand, there have been hundreds of idle men pleading for work which could not be obtained. The negro immigration business ■is a vicious, partisan proceeding from first to last. It is cruelty to the negro, who is not wanted in Indiana; and it is no less a stinging injustice to the white laborers already here, and. who are having a hard time of it to get a living. The movement was inaugurated by a set of white and black scamps in the employment of Republican conspirators, for the 188 C ° 9 ° ° f increasiag tlle Republican vote in THESE PARTISANFREEBOOTERS CARE NOTHING for the welfare of the laboring people of Indiana, or the black paupers of the South. I hey are willing to sacrifice both if thereby the Republican party of Indiana can increase its vote. They are aiding the increase of the negro population of Indiana. They are willing that the white labor of Indiana shall be brought into direct competition with negro labor. They know if these Southern pauper negroes will work at all that they can be hired at wages upon which no white man could live decently or comfortably, still they are anxious to subject the white workingmen of Indiana to the humiliating and degrading competition with pauper negroes of the South, who are to be brought here by subscription, and maintained, as in Kansas, by private or public charity, and this is to be done to increase the Republican vote of the State. The laboring people of Indiana have watched the exodus, and if the Republican party makes anything by it they will be welcome to all it can gain. THE NEGROES WHO WERE ENTICED to Indiana are poor, ignorant, and in numerous instances vicieus. Paupers at home, they could still find subsistence, for the climate is more genial and their necessities more easily supplied. On reaching Indiana, it was readily seen they must at once be provided for, or they starve and freeze. To go to any country and bid for emigrants for INDIANA FROM THE PAUPER POPULATION, TO RANSACK THE SLUMS FOR THE I.AZY, THRIFTLESS AND VICIOUS CLASSES, WOULD BE REGARDED UNIVERSALLY AS AN outrage. But this is just what these REPUBLICAN FANA'IHCS AND KIDNAPPERS HAVE DONE. NOT A NEGRO HAS A DOLLAR TO SAVE HIM FROM perishing. Upon their arrival they had to be taken in hand and provided for; homes must be had; employment must be furnished; food, fuel, shelter and clothing had to be supplied. And all this must be done promptly and continuously. Once here, the negro, if he will work at all, is not in a position to name the price. He is in the custody of miscreants who will rob him of his earnings just as the Republican scamps robbed him through the agency

,H K* 1 — ciot/Jing. They ttre f from the tirst, objects of charity, and must be supported at private or public charge. They are the victims of deceptions which, for base purposes and regardless of consequences, defy description. They come —say the knaves whe enticed them away from their homes — to work, but EVERY day’s WORK THEY OBTAIN IS JUST i THAT MUCH DEDUCTED FROM THE WHITE ! MEN OF INDIANA WHO ARE DEPENDENT UPON THEIR LABOR FOR SUPPORT. THE PLEA THAT THERE IS ANYTHING CONNECTED WITH THE EXODUS OF SOUTHERN N EGROES TO INDIANA THAT BEARS ANY RESEMBLANCE TO HONEST, PRUDENT OR ADVISABLE IMMIGRATION IS KNOWN TO BE A MONSTROUS FALSEHOOD. The REPUBLICAN CONSPIRATORS, BLACK AND WHITE, WHO ARE WORKING UP THE EXODUS ARE DOING IT FOR THE PURPOSE OF INCREASING THE REPUBLICAN VOTE IN INDIANA, AND FOR NOTHING ELSE. To accomplish their purpose they are subjecting their black victims to hunger, cold, sickness and death, in a strange land, among strangers, where they are not wanted, and where their labor is not in demand. The Republi - can scalawags who are carrying forward the business have no sense of right —neither sympathy nor conscience. They want the negroes’ votes in 1880, regardless of the suffering their scheme entails upon the negroes or white men. Fortunately, a great many honest Republicans begin to comprehend the condition of affairs, and are setting their faces against the whole infamous business. THE BOTTOM FACTS OF THE EXODUS. That the pauper exodus was from the first manipulated by a set of soulless Republican scamps, black and white, there can be no question. That they lied to the negroes is a fact that admits of no controversy. And the negroes now in Indiana, if permitted to testify, would make the infamous proceeding so plain that even Republicans would be compelled, in the interest of humanity, to denounce the piratical kidnappers with unmeasured severity. These Republican rascals have gone among the ignorant pauper negroes of North Carolina, and told them that they were wanted in Indiana as farm hands. That was a lie, and the rascals knew it. They told them that they could at once secure good homes, with gardens; that they would be furnished with a cow, and would receive $2 to $3 per dav as wages, in cash. These statements were lies —known to bo lies at the time, and proved to be lies since the poor, half-naked, half-starved paupers arrived in th* State. The Republican kidnappers, in the employment of Republican conspirators and knaves, made contracts with railroads to ship the paupers over certain lines at so much a head, receiving a bonus for their work — an exhibition of mercenary cruelty equalled only by the negro stealers who formerly entrapped the natives of Africa in their jungles, and shipped them, to the most favorable markets. These contracts to ship pauper negroes to Indiana, were fulfilled when the Negroes reached Indiana. Here they were dumped and left to the cold charities of the world, and their sufferings have been terrible. Sick, half-clad, without money or food or shelter, they were forced into church buildings and shanties and pens, to live or die, as fate might decide. One poor fellow with a wife and two children, a negro of the better sort, who paid his way through, after three weeks’ search for work, was able to find employment at $1 a week; another poor deluded pauper was able to get $4 for a month’s work in the country, and returning to his home, a place of squalor, he found his wife in the pangs of child-birth, *and soon after the infant lay cold and stiff in

square miles, has a population of 49.71 to the square mile. The following figures are taken from the census reports of 1870, and while population has largely increased during the past decade, it may l>e assumed that the conditions have not changed to any extent calculated to impair the force of the argument: - ~~ . • 1— — — ... —-- I K ‘ O *’ p 3 *' “ 2 Pg a c-« „ a £ ® STATKS. O c. £ 5 & ® $ < ° 2 “ ° 5 o’ < t < & Alabama 60,722 996,992 19,66 £ l rka ? , "‘ 8 *2,179 484,471 9 30 362 115 Florida 69,268 187,748 3 17 91’679 Kentucky 37,680 1,321,911 35.33 222’010 Louisiana 41,346 720,915 17 68 364 210 Mississ'poi 47,156 827.922 17’56 444’oni N. Carolina 60,705 1,071,361 21 13 391’ffiO 8. Carolina 34,000 705,606 20’75 415’814 Tennessee 4 5,600 1,258.520 2<60 322,331 Texas 274,356 818,679 2 98 253 475 <*orgia 68,000 1,184 100 20 37 645,142 Totals I 7l9jrio{ 9,586 ,225 3,931 At erage total population to square mile, 12,89. - Avt,ra g« negro population to square mile, I O.XsO, y

| the legitimate migration of human beings, 1 they violate the laws of Indiana, they violate the laws of Humanity, and they violate the laws of Christianity. They have inflicted untold cruelties upon the pauper negroes, and togain a few votes are willing to force the white laborers of Indiana into pauperism and crime. A SCHEME TO BRING OUR LABORING PEOPLE TO THE LEVEL OF PAUPERS BY LEAVING NOTHING OF PROFIT AT THE END OF THE TEAR. One of the reasons urge by the Republican conspirator- and their black and white practical kidnapers for filling Indiana with pauper negroes is that these pauper negroes ‘‘have nothing left at the end of the year.” It has cost them all they earned to live. They have just been able to make both ends meet with nothing left over. Admit it, and what of it? We ask the people of Indiana to look abroad over the State to find how many laborers in Indiana do more than to come out even at the end of the year. How many of the white toilers of Indiana have anything left at the end of the year? The response will come from thousands. We have nothing left. THE PROFITS OF LABOR TO THE TOILER ARE SMALL INDEED. WITH THE SEVEREST ECONOMY THE Y HAVE LIVED, AND THAT IS ALL; AND STILL THESE REPUBLICAN CONSPIRATORS AND BLACK AND WHITE AGENTS GO TO (NORTH CAROLINA TO ENTICE

Democrats Be on Your Guard. The Democrats of Indiana should know that there is positive evidence that negroes are now being brought into this State in large numbers, for the purpose of voting this fall who will not be entitled to vote for the reason that they will not have been in the State six months before the election as required by law, and the constitution. But the Republicans intend to vote them without regard to law or constitution, and to that end they are now being colonized in precincts where the election board and officers of the law are Kepublicans. 1 So great is the desperation of the Republican leaders, in view of their approaching doom, that it is believed in some localities they ici/l pay no regard to Democratic challenges of illegal voters, and will even refuse to issue or execute warrants for the arrest of offenders | or will neglect to do so until it is too late to prevent the mischief of illegal voting. It this should be the case in any locality if will be. the duty of the. Democrats and friends oj fair play amt lawful elections to erorcise the (lod-giren right of freemen. Let them show their manhood. Let them show that they know their rights and knowing dare maintain them. H’e say to you then spot every illegal voter, exercise ecerg lawful means to keep him frwm voting, and. keep him from voting. Organize for that purpose and stand together as one man in defense of wiir rights wnd the faithful awecution of the law.

’ republican office, holders and politicians, testitied that such an influx would be the abomination of the people of the State , that the supply of laborers was greater far than the demand, and had been for many years, especially since 1873; and that the negroes already imported ! there had fallen on hard lines, many of them not *tn- [ ployed at al), objects of daily charity, and others obtaining a precarious subsistence from temporary ami uncertain enaagements. Mr. New says that if the proportion between the males and females was thanged, so that tugro men constituted vhe influx of which he speaks upon our farms and into our workshops, he would encourage them to come. The testimony of farmers and mechanics is voluminous and overwhelming on this point in the printed evidence, and it is all one way. It is a book within itself, and 1 can not read it here. It eondemns in every line, page and chapter furnished by Republicans in greater numbers than by Democrats, and with equal emphasis, the position of the Chairman of the Republican State Central Committee of Indiana. There is no demand for the Libor of the neuro In Indiana, and every intelligent person in that State knows it. Thereis no call for his assistancoin developing the future of the State; no outcry for his influx upon our farms or into our workshops, and on that isstielam willing tobe Judged by the people whom J represent when they next afipna-h the ballot-box. Itis notan issue made by me. Itismade by thechairman of the Kepubliean .State Central committee of Indiana. and accepted by thegallantand faithful Democracy. The people ot Indiana will make answer that it was a libel on them to declare that they were calling upon the pauper Africans ot theSouth, or on any other element ot that race, to come to Indiana, to swarm upon her farms, to rani [her workshops, m order to develop her resources and to increase her material wealth And in that answer will be found a lerdict upon the evidence that a political conspiracy, and not the wishes of her citizens, has inflicted upon Indiana theattamptul outrage and pollution which she has undergone ft will be a verdict which will relieve the people of Indiana of thuodiumof having in any way solicited the head ong, senseless and most nauaturai movement oi the blacks iuta their JL»idst.

me exoaus movement is not only meanly partisan, but that it is criminally cruel, and that for its accomplishment the conspiritors have been compelled to deceive the ignorant negroes by a studiously devised system of lying. Taking into consideration the area and population of the following eleven Southern States, it will be seen that thev have an area of 749,030 square miles, and a population averaging 12.89 to tile’square I mile; while Indiana, with an area of 88.800

bnabela 10,6L,H, 1 2C Barley, bushels In the year 1878 there was an increased yield, and in 1879 the wheat product amount--1 ed to about 55,000,000 bushels, making Indiana the banner wheat State of the Union. During these years of steadily increasing . production there was nowhere a demand for farm laborers in excess of the supply. On the contrary, the supply of labor was largely in excess of the demand. There was not a County paper published in the State that advertised for farm laborers to come from a distance. THOUSANDS OF HONEST MEN WERE OUT OF EMPLOYMENT MECHANICS AS WELL AS COMMON Laborers, who would have BEEN GLAD TO OBTAIN ANY KIND Os work at almost any price, BUT IT COULD NOT BE HAD. IN VIEW OF THESE FACTS, THE MONSTROUS PROPORTIONS OF THE WRONG INTENDED THE WHITE Laborers of Indiana by the REPUBLICAN KNAVES WHO HAVE Been and are still importing PAUPER NEGROES INTO THE STATE (JAN BE APPRECIATED. The popula Cion of Indiana in 1870 was 1,680,637. The gain from 1860 ' to 1870 was about 20 per cent. If the 1 same ratio of increase has continued during 1 the decade just passed, the population of the 1 State is now about 2,000,000, or about 60 ‘ persons to the square mile. The population 1 of North Carolina in 1870 was 1,071,361; the J increase during the decade from 1860 to 1870 * was something over 7 per cent, and the pres- ’ ept population of the State may be estimated J at about 1,146,356, or something over 22 persons to the square mile. Here, then, we have the fact that the Republican knaves are ’ kidnapping pauper negroes in North Carolina where the population is 22 to the square mile te ship to 1 Indiana where the population is 60 - to the square mile, ostensibly is to better the condition of the paupers, while the real purpose is to have them vote the Republican ticket. These Republican knaves, and kidnappers disregard every law that influences C Jkr. 1 „ 4 — X xi /• » A

EVERY STUMP, AND CAME OUT VICTORIOUS. NO MAN DID MORE TO OVERTHROW THIS FRIGHTFUL K NO W- NOT II IN G O RG A NIZ AT 10 N - AND A FANATICAL ‘SEARCH, SEIZ’ URE AND CONFISCATION LAW’, WHICH WAS THEN IN EXISTENCE, AND THERE IS NO DENYING THAT THE FOREIGN- BORN CITIZENS OF THIS COUNTRY, AND ALL LOVERS DF LIBERTY OWE MR. ENGLISH A DEEP DEBT OF GRATITUDE.

~. , ----- ■*■ • .mV « inure Diiserablu < olony for colored voters for political ends, undor th “ pretense of aiding the development of her material wealth, she will resent and resist the base defilement and inflict punishment on all who have conspired against her honor and good fame. 1 Mr. New, in speaking of the coming of the male negro into Indiana, says: "I think that an influx of labor upon our farms and into our workshops would certainly tend to the material prosperity of the State.” THE WORKING PEOPLE OF THE STATE AGAINST THE REPUBLICAN POLITICIANS. Every witness examined, except republican offiL

th e fa c t ’ I th nt people emigrate from countries over- ’ J crowded, where the means of subsistenae are 1 precarious, to countries loss populous, where the means and opportunities for subsistence are more favorable. When a movement is i made in violation of this law, the reasons ; underlying it and prompting it, are, 1 as a general proposition, vicious,’ and the design is to subserve some purpose in itself criminal. But when those jvho inaugurate, such movements of people seek out the pauper class, the ignorant and depraved, the idle and. thriftless vagrants, they become to all intents and purposes the enemies of society, ami should be dealt with as felons. 'I hat the Republican rascals who are now engaged in bringing pauper negroes from the South to Indiana, their aiders and abettors, are in all regards the enemies of tpd only their negro victims, but of the white Citizens of Indiana, facts clearly demont rate. They are bringing these pauper negroes from localities where their labor is in demand to other localities, where their labor is not wanted. They are bringing them from .States where the population is sparse to , where it is more dense. They arc bringing them from States where the climate is more ■ favorable for their health and comfort, to one . where they must endure gre t suffering. They are bringing them from States where ! the soil is as fruitful and Its products as abun- . dant, and the means of subsistance under any ‘ circumstances as readily obtained, as in In- ! tliana or any other Northern State. Hence • it is clear that those who are engaged in en- ' ticing the negroes from the South to Indiana are doing it, not for the good of the negro, * BUT FOR THE PURPOSE OF HELPING THE s REPUBLICAN PARTY | to gain a triumph in 1880. A glance at sta- 1 tistics bearing upon the subject will satisfy < the most obtuse and stubborn citizen that 2 thft PYndna Tnnrnmnnl . 4. . 1 T

w1... .-nUe.-.l 11... neicriMH I'l-on. the South tO Kansas was to injure the industrial enterprises ot the South. To accomplish this purp >se, the more ignorant of the negroes were deluded by the most cruel falsehoods. They i ere told that friends, employment, lands nd implements awaited their arrival in K-tnxas. The poor creatures started for the labd of promise to meet privation, starvation, sickness and death. They were paupers when they started. Their condition steadily grew worse, and they found out at last that t hey had been deceived|and victimized to gratify the implacable hates of Northern fanatics. MR. LXGLIHH‘B BOLD FIGHT Against Know-Nothingisin, andhia Sueoenß- - Uuieuse of Civil aud Religious Liberty. [Prom the Indianapolis People Aug 7] 1 he Sentinel refers to the fact that both the proprietor and editor of that paper lived in the district represented in Congress by the Hon. William H. English at the time he made his celebrated campaign against the Know-Nothing party, which was then sweeping the country and making war not only upon our foreign-born citizens, but civil and religious liberty as well. The Sentinel says: “The proprietor of this paper, and also the editor, Bved in Mr. English’s district then, and remember well the gallant and gloriqus fight that he made in defense of reliinous freedom and the rights of our foreign-born citizens. So great was the excitement that men, women and children were slaughtered, just across the river from Mr. English’s district, because they happened to be born abroad, and the same spirit prevailed in all that region. BUT MR. ENGLISH i THOUGH THREATENED WITH MOB VIOLENCE, FOUGHT THEM ON ,

»>ld 1 <. f Mr No We atatori,.,,! t na th e» niuflt pfOlloanwl > democrat in tlie State. Mr. New nttyg: We have a large and prosperous State, demandtnir • development, and all of us are anxious that the S - should be developed, and tvorything that tends to pre’ 3 W, ' a,,1 ‘ '' e « r «<‘»>lou"toencou?age r r H ,ell ow-mauager» of politic* affect to believe that tins ‘‘material wealth” would beipromoU< 1 by a voting, not a non- voting, black population in the l State ; by a male, not a female, population »f that race ; by an adult male population, entitled to wield the ballot, not by w omen and children, denied, as yet 1 the elective franchise. This opinion is not shared in i Indian* beyond the narrow circle of the Republican State Central committee, the Federal office-holders and a few shallow folks » ho think that anything even . the ruin of the State, is justifiable in ordgr to defeat the Democratic party. THE KINI> OF IMMIGRANTS INDIANA WANTS. Indiana is indeed a large and prosperous State, and Is susceptible of still greater development; but she which" r °‘ y in ‘*l a ,’ u ‘ ure upon the same agencies Wh P resse< l her forward so rapidly and so grandly ia the past. In agalaxy of thirty-eight B‘ates she stands in many respects the fourth, ami in all respects, taken together, the fifth State in this mighty Colon. When New York, Pennsylvania, Ohioand*!!!nois have been named, Indiana answers next on the roll-call of American States. Her railroad development is the marvel of modern progress, and her school Bysteiu surpasses that of any other known Commonwealth of equal population. Her lands, her timber aud her mineral resources constitute her an empire of physical wealth. Her people, too, are a strong race the next generation immediately descended from the brave, devoted, aud aggressive pioneers who a little while ago subdued the wilderness, and nearly all of w horn now Bleep in their honored graves. The' laws of Indiana are liberal, just and equal. The decisions of her highest court are quoted as authority it Westminster, and the names of her inrists uro mentioned with respect at even English speaking court in the world. She has been * State the | brief space of sixty four years, but in that time she lias swept far up to the front in every department of thought and action. She lias outstripped her older sisters, seated nn the eastern seaboard, as a swift-sail-ing modern vessel on the ocean would pass au ancient craft built in the Infancy of navigation. In all her bright career, however, Indiana has not depended for anything upon the negro, either as a slave or as a freedman, and shedoes not propose to do so now .lie has as much kindness, as much shelter and protection under the law for the black man and for his 'household who seek a home within her borders in the ord i nary and natural way of moving from one place to an other as she han for people of any other color; but when a rush is made to convert her into a mere miser.hu