Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1880 — The Exodus Investigation. [ARTICLE]

The Exodus Investigation.

In many regards, says the Indianapolis Sentinel, the exodus investigation which has been going forward for several weeks, and which is still in progress is one of the most important that lias been inaugurated since the Democratic partv obtained control of the House of Representatives and commenced the work of unearthing the scoundrelism of Republican leaders. Democrats, with scarcely an exception, and tiie Democratic press, almost, universally denounced the exodus movement as corruptly and cruelly partisan, and, that, from its inception to its culmination - at every step throughout its entire progress, it was manipulated and aided by a set of debased and villainous Republicans, who violated every principle of humanity, and by persistent lying induced hordes of pauper negroes to abandon their homes and locate in Indiana for purvly parsisan considerations. Every allegation made by Democrats, and by the Democratic press of the country has been ostab*

lisheri by Republican witnesses, black and white, as well as by Democrats, until there Is now no controversy upon the subject. The black rascals who were the agents of white Reptiblloan desperadoss, have been exposed Their monstrous lies and deceptions have been set in order beforo the country and have been linked and Welded to tho nefarious Republican leaders, forming a chain gang of scamps as vile and us execrable iiG wors ever sentenced to hard labor in any penitentiary in the country.— These blaok and white knaves, it has been incontrovertibly established, lied about the condition of the negro in North Carolina and with equal persistency, and as knowingly, they lied about the demand for pauper negroes in Indiana. In these regards they never uttered a truthful statement.— They lie 4 like devils, and for the most detestable of motives. Disregarding the welfare of the negro, they enticed him away from homo anil friends, to steal his vote, and disregarding the welfare of white men in Indiana, they imported pattpei negroes to steal away his subsistence, and to break down his political influence. To accomplish this they are willing to visit upon tho negro untold sufferings, and to add to the precariousness of the white man’s means for obtaining a livelihood. Such facts have been established by irrefragible testimony.— White men see it, and oven the deluded negroes are experiencing the damnable enormi.y of the crime committed by white and black rascals, who plotted foi their votes at the cost, In hundreds of instances of their lives. The investigation has effectually exploded the Republican lies about the pppressian of the negro in the South. It has corrected public sentiment, and is well calculated tolaigely do away with the influence of. bloody-shirt harrangues in the future. So far the Democrats have great cause for gratulfltlon. Even Windom and Btair see distinctly that the whole exodi s movement is damaging to tho Republican party, and that the leaders of

their party have been guilty of an outrage which can neither be modiHe I, explained or extenuated.