Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1880 — Page 5

THE NEGRO EXODUS INTO INDIANA.

The Purely Political Character of the Movement With the Intention ot Carrying IwiHm Tk« X(T«BMBt ■either IpMrtUMH er istual-But the Basalt ot Cosaytiaey. ▲ Complete Review of the Entire Exodai Movement, Considered From Every Point of View. Pauper Additions to Our Population. While Sew York is watching with eager solicitude the importation of paupers from Europe, the Republican press, and the Republican party of Indiana are inviting pauper negroes from the South to come to Indiana by hundreds and by thousands for no other reason under Heaven but to vote the Republican ticket . One Langsdale, who is said to be the editor of a “red hot Republican paper,” proposes to find homes for all who come. The leading Republican paper of this State expresses tne opinion that each county in the State needs 200 of the paupers—male adults who with their families, will swell the grand total of the army of the negro paupers to about 66,000. There is absolutely ns work for them. Every day's work they may do

IS VIRTUALLY TAKING BREAD from the mouths of the white people of Indiana who have to work for a living. But if these pauper negroes come, they come to vote the Republican ticket, to rob white laborers of the means of suppsrt, and to make a livelihood more precarious; still the Republican managers are urging them to come. Not one in twenty of these pauper negroes has a dollar; ragged, filthy, lazy and improvident, they come to live upon public or private charities, or to die beggars and pauSrs, as they did in Kansas. The ‘‘red not” ipuhlican press has determined to lend its aid in the infamous proceeding, and their agents are at work in the South. They, like the Republican papers, are also “red hot.” The pauper negroes are coming with their filth, rags, disease and vermin. They went to Kansas to die. They came to Indiana to vote—to beg, to he taken care of, or starve. The working people are getting their eyes wide open on the subject, and the Republican conspirators will find out at last that the best laid plans of mice and men do not pan out well sometimes. Thksk misguided negroes have been brought to Indiana —where they are NOT WANTED—FROM STATES WHERE THEY CAN LIVE IN COMFORT. THEY ARE COMING TO BE SUPPORTED BY CHARITY, COMING TO STARVE, TO DRAG OUT A MISERABLE EXISTENCE; BECAUSE THE REPUBLICAN PARTY WANT TO USE THEM FOR VOTING MACHINES. The men who ark engaged in the business ABE MORE CRUEL THAN DEATH. THEY ARE MEN OF THE SAME TYPE AS THOSE WHO OBTAINED THE CONFIDENCE OF THE SOUTHERN NEGRO TO ROB THEM OF THEIR LAST DOLLAR THROUGH THE AGENCY OF THE FREEDMAN S SAVINGS BANK. THEY BELONG TO THE CLASS OF MEN WHO FOR YEARS KEPT THE SOUTH IN TROUBLE, BY EXCITING THE PREJUDICES OF THE NEGROES 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. 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 }>ast six years for farm hands in excess of the ocal supply. Instead of more laborers being 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 purpose of increasing the Republican vote in 1880.

THESE PARTISANFREEBOOTERS CARE NOTHING for the welfare of the laboring people of Indiana, or the black paupers of the South. They 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 j 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 inan 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 vicious. 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 onee 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 BLUMS FOR THE LAZY, THRIFTLESS AND VICIOUS CLASSES, WOULD BE REGARDED UNIVERSALf.Y AS AN OUTRAGE. But THIS IS JUST WHAT THESE REPUBLICAN FANATICS AND KIDNAPPERS have done. Not a negro has 4. dollar to save him from peruhing. Upon their arrival they had to be taken in hand and provided for; homes must be had; ; employment must be furnished; food, fu4l, shelter and clothing had to be supplied. ! And all this must be dope promptly and continuously. Once here, the negro, if he will work at all, is notin 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 thp agency

of the Freedman’s saving hank. WORKTHAT A WHITE MAN WOULD DO FOR ADOLLAR THE PAUPER NEGRO WILL BE REQUIRED TO PERFORM FOR A QUARTER OF THAT AMOUNT, AND THE WHITE LABORER WILL BE COMPELLED TO LOOK ON IN SILENCE AND SEE HIMSELF AND THOSE DEPENDENT UPON HIM ROBBED OF THE MEANS OF SUBSISTENCE THAT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY MAY GAIN A FEW VOTES IN 1880, ANDTHAT THE SOUTH MAY BE EMBARRASSED BY THE WANT OF LABORERS. Democrats have opposed this whole business of forcing mendicant Southern negroes into this State. The movement is m direct conflict with the interests of the working people of the State, and opposed to the welfare of the negro as well. For negroes from the South to come to Indiana to support themselves, and of their own free will, is one thing—to be forced here to vote the Republican ticket, and to he supported by private or public charity, is a very different thing. In opposing such an exodus the Democratic party has been consistent, and the more the subject is investigated the more the people will be convinced that the Democratic party is actuated by prudent considerations. FRED DOUGLASS’ OPINION OF THE EXODUS. During the time the exodus was in active operation, Frederick Douglass, the leading colored man of the oountry, now Marshal of the District of Columbia, wrote as follows: I CAN NOT BUT REPEAT THE OPINION ALREADY OFTEN EXPRESSEJWTHAT ALL ORGANIZED EFFORT AT •THE NORTH DESIGNED TO PROMPT AND PROMOTE FURTHER STAMPEDE OF THIS SORT SHOULD BE DISCOUNTENANCED. THESE POOR PEOPLE SHOULD NOT BE DELUDED AND ALLURED FROM THEIR HOMES, ESPECIALLY AT THIS SEASON OF THE YEAR, BY PROMISES EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, OF PECUNIARY AID. I SEE NO WISDOM. BUT MUCH FOLLY—NO GOOD, BUT MUCH EVIL—IN BRINGING TO THIS CITY MULTITUDES OF THESE PEOPLE, UNDER THE IMPRESSION THAT WHEN THEY REACH HERE MONEY WILL BE RAISED AND FURNISHED THEM TO PAY THEIR TRAVELING EXPENSES TO THE NORTH, THE WEST OR ELSEWHERE. THERE ARE HUNDREDS AND THOUSANDS EVERYWHERE READY TO RIDE ON RAILROADS AND TO VISIT DISTANT CITIES IF ASSURED IN ADVANCE THAT THEIR RAILROAD FARES WILL BE PAID, AND THA;T FOOD AND SHELTER WILL BE PROVIDED FOR THEM.

THE SECOND REPUBLICAN SCHEME TO SWINDLE THE NEGRO. ' When Republican rascals concocted their Freedman’s Savings bank scheme, for the purpose of robbing the negroes of their small earnings, there was about the proceeding a deliberate devilishness unparalleled in the history of knavery; but this essential villainy sinks to fathomless contempt compared with the infernal cruelty of the Republican kidnappers who are engaged in decoying the pauper negroes from the South to Indiana. These wheeaied negroes are absolutely paupers, without money, provisions or seasonable clothing. They are, from the first, objects of charity, and must he 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 wHc enticed them away from their homes —to work, but EVERY day’s WORK THEY OBTAIN IS JUST 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 NEGROES 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 jELSE. 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 Bcalawags 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 ana 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 6an be no ?[uestion. That they lied to the negroes is a act 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 Indiaiia as farm hands. That was a lie, and the rascals know it. They told them that they could at once secure good homes, with gardens;: that they would he furnished with a cow, and would receive $2 to $3 per dav as wages, in cash. These statements were lies—known te be lies at the time, and proved to he lies since the poor, half-naked, half-starved paupers arrived in the 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 qruelty 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 N egroes 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 er 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

SUPPLEMENT.

the embrace of death—frozen to death because there was not a particle of clothing with which to shield it from the blasts of winter. THE WHOLE BUSINESS IS A PANORAMA OF HORRORS, GOTTEN UF TO FILL INDIANA WITH BEPUBLICAN VOTERS FOB THE CAMPAIGN OF 1880. It is impossible to exaggerate the infamy of the whole proceeding, from first to last. It is unparalleled wickedness—a crime against humanity, and fully illustrates to what profound depths of depravity Republican leaders will descend to gain a partisan triumph. No one objects to ligitimate immigration to Indiana, hut this exodus from North Carolina was simply fiendish. It was conceived in falsehood; it has brought forth a progeny of cruelties, of sufferings, of villainies that defy adequate description; and these facts we conclude will be brought out before the investigating committee. Senator Yoprhees by bringing about this investigation deserves the applause of the country. He has done his State a great service, hut hehas done the poor deluded blacks of the South a far greater service Facts have been submitted to a candid public that have broaght into haggard prominence the deep damnation of the Republican scheme that will fill the land with horror. THE PHILOSOPHIC VIEW OF THE MOVEMENT. The exodus of the negroes of the South to Northern States is in direct violation of every principle and law which regulates and governs tne migratory movements of the human species. More than this, it is in direct conflict with the instincts of bird and beast. Subject the movement to the severest analysis, and the discovery will he made that the Southern negroes who are , now seeking homes in the Northern States have been the victims of the most infamous falsehoods, and have been enticed away from a country where their services were in demand, where the climate is suited to their comfort, develment and longevity, to a country where their condition can by no possibility be improved, and where it is made, by circumstances beyond their control, indefinitely worse. The most intelligent negroes of the the country, ex-slaves and free bom, unite in declaring the exodus to be vicious in all regards.

THE SOUTH IS THE NATURAL HOME OF THE NEGRO. In the North he is out of place. To say nothing of race prejudice, the North is not the section that invites negro immigration. It is a well established fact that since the war the condition of the Southern negro has steadily improved. Thousands of them ARE NOW LANDED PROPRIETORS, AND CULTIVATE THEIR OWN ACRES; AND IT IS FURTHER ESTABLISHED THAT THE MORE INTELLIGENT Southern negroes do not propose TO EMIGRATE. THE INDUSTRIOUS, THRIFTY NEGRO FINDS THE SOUTH THE BEST PLACE FOR HIMSELF AND FAMILY. THOSE WHO ARE PERSUADED AWAY ARE THE LAZY, THRIFTLESS, PAUPER CLASS, WHO LIVE FROM HAND TO MOUTH*, AND THIS LATTER CLASS ARE EASILY PERSUADED TQ ABANDON THEIR NATIVE COUNTRY BY REPUBLICAN CONSPIRATORS. WHO WANT TO USE THEM FOR PARTISAN PURPOSES, REGARDLESS OF THE SUFFERINGS THEIR INFAMOUS FALSEHOODS INFLICT. The laws of emigration demonstrate the fact that people emigrate from countries overcrowded, where the means of subsistence are precarious, to countries less populous, where the means and opportunities for subsistence are more favorable. When a movement is made in violation of this law, the reasons underlying it and prompting it, are, as a general proposition, vicious, and the design is to mbserve some purpose in itself criminal. But when those who 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, and should be dealt with as felons. That the Republican rascals who are now engaged in bringing pauper negroes from the South to Indiana, iheir aiders and abettors, are in all regards the enemies of not only their negro victims, but of the white citizens of Indiana, facts clearly aemontrate. They are bringing these paupern egroes from localities where their labor is in demana to other localities, where their la.bor is pot wanted. They are bringing them from States where the population is sparse to where it is more dense. They ate bringing them from States where the climate is more favorable for their health and comfort, to one where they must endure great suffering. They are bringing them from States where the soil is as fruitful and its products as abundant, and the means of suhsfstance under any circumstances as readily obtained, as in Indiana or any other Northern State. Hence it is clear that those who are engaged in enticing the negroes from the South to Indiana are doing it, not for the good of the negro,

BUT FOR THE PURPOSE OF HELPING THE REPUBLICAN PARTY to gain a triumph in 1880. A glance at statistics bearing upon the subject will satisfy the most obtuse and stubborn citizen that the exodus movement is not only meanly partisan, but that it is criminally cruel, and that for its accomplishment tbe conspiritors have been compelled to deceive the ignorant negroes by a studiously devised system of lying. Taking into consideration tbe area and population of the following eleven Southern States, it will be seen that they have an area of 749,030 square miles, and a population averaging 12.89 to the square mile; while Indiana, with an area of 38,800 square miles, has a population of 49.71 to the square mile. The following figures are taken trom the census reports of 1870, and while population has largely increased during the past decade, it may be assumed that the conditions have not changed to any extent calculated to impair the force of the argument: 5 .... o m& * • © £ •—‘IS ZS 2 a s oa o ® STATXS. £ .2 01 5 T * I” i j, B g - 2 o “ ◄ fe < SB Alabama 50,722 - 996,992 19,6« 621,384 Arkansas 62,179 484,471 9,30 362,115 Florida 69,268 1*7,748 3,17 91,679 Kentucky 37,680 1.421,911 35,33 222,210 Louisiana 41,346 726,915 17,68 364,410 Mississippi 47,156 827,922 17,66 444,201 N. Carolina 60,705 1,071,361 21,13 391,660 S. Carolina. 34,000 305,606 20,76 416,814 Tennessee 46,600 1,968,620 27,60 322,831 Texas 274,366 618,679 2,98 253.475 Georgia 68,000 .’L,H#4 100 20,47 646,142 Totals 749,030 9,586,225 3,931,321 Average total population to square mile, 12.89. e ** r ° P o P u^*t^oll square mile,

IT WOULD BE DIFFICULT TO SHOW UP THE OBJECTIONABLE FEATURES OP THE EXODUS IN A STRONGER LIGHT. THE NEGRO CAN NOT BY ANY POSSIBILITY IMPROVE HIS CONDITION BY COMING TO INDIANA, THE EFFECT OF HIS COMING UPON HIMSELF WILL BE TO INCREASE HIS WANTS AND SUFFERINGS, WHILE HE MAKES THE LIVING OF WHITE LABORERS MORE PRECARIOUS. THIS STATE OF THINGS IS ALREADY BEGUN. WHITE MEN ARE BEING DISCHARGED, AND THEIR PLACES FILLED WITH NEGROES, BECAUSE THE POOR DEVILS, TO KEEP FROM STARVING, WILL WORK FOR WAGES AT WHICH NO DECENT WHITE MAN CAN LIVE. IT WILL BE WELL FOR THE PEOPLE OF INDIANA TO WATCH THIS EXODUS BUSINESS WITH CEASELESS VIGILANCE. IT IS A REPUBLICAN SCHEME TO MARE VOTING MACHINES OF THE MOST MISERABLE SET OF PAUPERS ON THE CONTINENT. ■ •; . ITS EFFECTS UPON WHITE LABOR. The organs of the Republican kidnapers who visited North Carolina for the purpose of enticing to Indiana thousands of pauper negroes to vote the Republican ticket have time and again sought to make it appear that Indiana requires the assistance of these pauper negroes to cultivate the soil. The black Bepublican rascals who were the agents of the white Republican knaves were guilty of the most infamously barefaced lying. They t£>ld the North Carolina paupers that homes and lands were awaiting their coming; that lands could he had at from $1 to $1.50 per acre; that six or seven months of provisions would be provided gratuitously; that men were wanted from $2 to $3 per day, and women as from S2O to $25 per month. These lying representations were well Calculated to induce the pauper negroes to mike the venture. The black rascals were particular to tell the pauper negroes that no Democratic negroes was wanted, and when they arrived in Indiana they would be expected to vote the Republican ticket. THAT THE BLACK AGENTS OF THlj WHITE RE-

PUBLICAN SCOUNDRELS, made sach statements can he established, and that every one of them, except those which relate to voting,is a lie.can be proved. That it was a Republican scheme,the republican press has universally though unwittingly shown by the statements in its editorial columns, that it is lie most infamous piece of business ever engaged in by a political party to change the political complexton of a State is easily demonstrated. The only party that could by any possibility engage in suck an execrable proceedings is the Republican party —a party that elevated Hayes to power by fraud forgery and perjury, would not hesitate to fill Indiana with pauper negroes by means equally vile. The report of the Auditor of State for 1878 shows that there were in cultivation in the State of Indiana about 6,639,678 acres of land. The cereal products of these lands in 1877 were as follows: Wheat, bushels ‘21.022,431 Corn, bushels 93,8.4.;,CUJ Bye, bushels 540,731 Oats, bushels .10,658,121' Barley, bushels 134,234 In the year 1878 there was an increased yield, and in 1879 the wheat product amounted to about 55,000,000 bushels, matring 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 WOUkD HAVE BEEN GLAD TO OBTAIN ANY KIND OF 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 CAN BE APPRECIATED- The popula tion of Indiana in 1870 was 1,680,637. The gain from 1860 to 1870 was about 20 per cent. If the same ratio of increase has continued during the decade just passed, the population of the State is now about 2,000,000, or about 60 persons to the square mile. The population of North Carolina in 1870 was 1,071 361; the increase during the decade from 1860 to 1870 was something over 7 per cent, and the present population of the State may be estimated 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 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 the legitimate migration of human beings, 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 to gain 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 YEAR, One of the reasons urge by the Republican conspirator 3 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 ot Indiana to look abroad over the State to find how many laborers in Indiana do more than to come out even at the end ot 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 THEY HAVE LIVED, AND THAT IS ALL; AND STILL THESE REPUBLICAN CONSPIRATORS AND BLACK AND WHITE AGENTS GO TO NORTH CAROLINA TO • ENTICE

,AWAY PAUPER NEGROES TO INDIANA, TELLING THEM THA t HERE THEIR SERVICES ARE IN DEMAND AT LARGER WAGES; THAT HOMES AWAIT THEM, AND THAT HERF THEY CAN SAVE MONEY AND HAVE SOMETHING LEFT AT THE END OF THE YEAR. THEY COME, TO LEARN THAT EVERY WORD IS A LIE. THEY FIND THAT TEY ARE BROUGHT TO THE STATE TO VOTE THE REPUBLICAN TICKET, AND ARE SHIPPED IN A WAY THAT ENABLES THEIR KIDNAPPERS TO MAKS A STIPULATED SUM PER HEAD, JUST AS IF THEY WERE SHIPPING MULES, THEY COME TO MAKE IT MORE DIFFICULT FOR WHITE LABORERS TO LIVE IN INDIANA. THEY COME TO BE SUPPORTED BY PRIVATE OR PUBLIC CHARITY, OR. IF THEY FIND WORK, TO TAKE IT FROM THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN STRUGGLING TO LIVE ON WAGES BROUGHT DOWN TO THE LOWEST POSSIBLE LEVEL. These black and white Republican kidnappers are found advising such of the negroes aB have mules and wagons toseli them, an evidence that a working negro in the South can save something, quite as much, if not more than the white farm laborof Indiana, and more than the average toiler. We find that in North Carolina the condition of the negro laborer is quite as fortunate in point of saving money as it is in the North, and it is worthy of remark that the thrifty working negroes do not come North. The great mass of them who have been kidnapped are the lazy, thriftless, trifling negroes who prefer to hang around towns and cities, and who are ready to listen to the lying stories of the roaming kidnapping Republican rascals who ship them North as they would ship hogs or cattle over certain lines at so much a head, and who are directed to send them to Indiana to vote the Republican ticket. THE LABORING MEN OF INDIANA CAN NOT TOO SOON TAKE THIS MATTER INTO CONSIDERATION. IF WE ARE TO .HAVE 5000,10,000, OR ANY OTHER NUMBER OF PAUPER NEGROES FORCED INTO INDIANA BY REPUBLICAN KNAVES, AND THE KIDNAPPING FREEBOOTERS IN THEIR EMPLOY, IT MEANS THAT WHITE LABORERS WILL HAVE TO COMPETE WITH THEM FOR AN EXISTENCE; THEY WILL HAVE TO WORK FOR PAUPER WAGES, AND TAKE A PAUPER’S chance for subsistence, AND THIS THEY WILL BE REQUIRED TO DO THAT PAUPER NEGROES MAY BE IMPORTED TO VOTE THE REPUBLICAN TICKET NEXT YEAR. THE WHITE LABORERS OF INDIANA HAVE HAD, FOR YEARS PAST, A HARD TIME TO MAKE A LIVING. THE STRUGGLE IS TO BE FIERCER IN THE FUTURE. LOOK AT IT FROM ANY POINT OF OBSERVATION, AND THE PROSPECT IS GLOOMY FOR THE WHITE TOILER. J HOW TnE NEGROES WERE DECEIVED. The objections to the exodus have been warranted by facts and results which defy successful explanation and contradiction. It has been shown conclusively that the original purposes of the miserable Republican scamps who enticed the negroes from the South to Kansas was to injure the industrial enterprises of the South. To accomplish this pur-p->se, the more ignorant of the negroes were deluded by the most cruel falsehoods. They .ere told that friends, employment,-lands nd implements awaited their arrival in Kansas. The poor creatures started for the land of promise to meet privation, starvation, sickness and death. They were paupers when they started. Their condition steadily grow worse, and they found out at last that they had been deceived|and victimized to gratify the implacable hates of Northern fanatics.

MR. ENGLISH’S BOLD FIGHT

Against Know-Nothinglsm, and his Successful Defense of Civil and Religious Liberty. [From the Indianapolis People, Aug. 7j The Sentinel refers to the fact that both the proprietor and editor of that papVr lived in the district represented in Congress bf*4he 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-bom citizens, but civil and religious liberty as well. The Sentinel says: “The proprietor of this paper, and also the editor, lived in Mr. English’s district then, and remember well the gallant and glorious fight that he made in defense of religious 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, THOUGH THREATENED WITH MOB VIOLENCE, FOUGHT THEM ON EVERY STUMP, AND CAME OUT VICTORIOUS. NO MAN DID MORE TO OVERTHROW THIS FRIGHTFUL KNOW-NOTHING ORGAN IZ ATIONAND 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 OF LIBERTY OWE MR. ENGLISH A DEEP DEBT OF GRATITUDE.

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 he 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 tho 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 hoard and officers of the law are Republicans. So great is the desperation of the Republican leaders, in view of their approachine doom, thatit is believed in some localities they will pay no regard to Democratic challenges of illegal voters, and will even refuse te issue or execute warrants for the arrest of offenders or will neglect to do so until it is too late to prevent tne mischief of illegal voting. If this should be the case in any locality it will be the duty of the Democrats and friends oj fair play and lawful elections to exercise the God-given right of freemen. Let them show their manhood. Let them siuno that they know their rights and knowing dare maintain them. We say to you then spot every illegal voter, exercise every lawful means to keep him from voting, and keep him from voting. Organize for that purpose and stand together as one man in defense of vour rights and the faithful execution of the law.

THE EXODUS INVESTIGATION,

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most steer clear of It as a political issue, but if these people wanted to come, to let'hem come! A. Wecerj tainljr merer intended to eet up a barrier on the border of the State againet whitee or blacks, or auybody els* who seek to better their condition by coming into the Sta'e. We have a Urge and prosperous State, demanding development, and all of na are anxious that the State should be developed, and every'hing that tends to promote its material wealth we are anxious to encourage. Q. Did yon think that it would tend'to the material wealth of thebtate to eucoorage these people to coma into it, taking all the circumstances under which they some ? A. I think that as influx of labor upon our iarmaand into our workshops woo Id certainly tend to the material prosperity of thoSU'e. Q. Well, lam trjingtoget at the fact whether you thought an influx of this kind of labor—these people from North Carolina, coming in the eonditlon that they are in, and as they do come into oar State—would beto the material ad vantage Df the State. Ifso, just say so. A. If these people come—or rather, I would say, that the trouble with this population coming there, ashas been reported to me, and as I have found by the investigation I have made upon the eubject, is that about 90 per cent, of the influx has been women and children. In thfr proportion Ido net think it would add to the material wealth of the State. If they were operatives, if the proportion was as onehalf orone-th:rd operatives, then I think it would add to the material prosperity of the State. If. however, the pet cent age ia as reported tome, and at tne investigation that I have madeupon it tends to show, 90 per cent, women and children, and they not operatives, then I think it is not to the material interest of the State to come; that Is, notin that proportion. Q. In other words, without adopting Mills’ language, there are too many women aud children coming; there ought to be more men and fewer women and children, yon think? A. I mean that if they were p.oducers, as these women and children are not, lookingatitaaa matter of political e-onomy, I do. Ia that the stand point from which you ask the question? Q. Tes; but lam not asking yon reasons. I want to know if in point of feet there were more men and fewer women and children it wonld help the State t» have them come into it, in your opinion ? A. Yes, sir; 1 think it would; I have no donbt that it would. Q. But aa it is, with ro few men and to many moru women aud children, you have your doubts ? A. I do noS think it would be for the material wealth of the State to have them come iu that proportion. They are consumers rather than producers. Q. Yon would be disposed, then, to advise them to stop coming in the way in which they are coming ? A. I am looking at it from an Indiana stand-point. <J. O, yes; we are all looking at it from an Indiana stand-point; as an ludianian, I ask yon whether, if these people who are coming were to change the proportion a little, yon would advise them to come on ? A. Answering the question as you ask it, as a citizen of Indiana, from that stand-point I say yes. Q. You may answer as you choose; lam not cutting out the answers for you. I simply waut to get at your views. You are a representative man in your party, and I waut your views; so I will repeat the question, whether in the proportion in which these people are coming you would advise against it, and if that proportion were adjusted so that there were more men and fewer women and children you wonld advise them to come, f„r the material wealth and prosperity of Indiana? A, Yes, sir. HAT THIS ALL MEANS, Here is the same complaint made by Mills of not enough men in the movement and too many women. Here is an indorsement of negro emigration to Indiana on the condition that the me> will come and the women remain away. It is true Mr. New assigns as a reason for approving such a masculine emigration that it wonld improve the material prosperity of the State. Doubtless, however, he and his party CO-F borers are fully persuaded that the surest way achieve that material prosperity is to overcome the Democratic majority in Indiana, and as the most certain means lo that end the presence at the ballot-box of that State of the black male population of the South is extremely desirable. Sir, I might appropriately panse here to show from tho proof that outside of Mr. New and a few control ling republican leaders nobody of a> y party in Indiana believes or pretends to believethat a negro emigration and settlement there, either of men, women or children, separately or all combined, would advance the material wealth, prosperity, and well-being of that great and progressive Commonwealth. The evidence on this point before the committee came from every shade of party politics, and the laboring-man of the republican party and the representative man of the greenback-labor party were aoemphatlo in their denial of Mr. New’s statement as the most pronounced democrat In the State. Mr. New says: We have a large and prosperous State, demanding development, and all of usare anxious that theSiatd should be developed, and everything that promote its material wealth we are anxious to encoVAge. Heandhis fellow-managers of politics affect to believe that this “material wealth” would be promoted by a voting,-not a non-voting, black population in the State; by a male, not a female, population of that race; by an adult male population, entitled to wield thu ballot, not by women and children, deniotffasyet, the elective franchise. This opinion is not shared in Indiana beyond the narrow circle of the Republican State Central committee, the Federal office-holders, and a few shallow folks w ho think that anythin', even the ruin of the State, is Justifiable in order tflrdsfeat the Democratic party. THE KIND OF IMMIGRANTS INDIANA WANTS. Indiana is indeed a large and prosperous State, and is susceptible of still greater development; but she prefers to rely in the future upon the same agenaies which have pressed her forward so rapidly and so grandly in the past. In a galaxy of thirty-eight States she stands in many respects the fonrtb, and in all respects, taken together, the fifth State in this mighty Uuion. When New York. Pennsylvania, Ohioand Illinois have been named, Indiana answers next on the roll-call of American States. Her railroad development is the marvel of modern progress, and he/school system surpasses that of any other known Commonwealth of equal population. Her lauds, her timber, and 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, and aggressive pioneers who a little while ago snbdued the wilderness, and nearly all of whom now sleeo in their honored graves. The laws of Indiana are liberal, just and equal. The decisions of her highest court are quoted as authority at Westminster, and the names of her Jurists are mentioned with respect at every Englishspeaking court in the world. She has been a State the briefspace of sixty- tour years, but in that time she has swept far up to the front in every department of thought and action. She has outstripped her older sisters, seated on the eastern seaboard, as a swift-sail-ing modern vessel on theocean would pass an ancient craft built in the infanoy of navigation. In all her bright career, however, Indiana has not depended for anything upon the negro, either as a slave or as a frecdman,and she does not propose to do so now. She has as much kindness, as mnch shelter and protection under the law for tho black man and for his household who seek a home within her borders in the ordinary and natural way ofmoving from one place to another as she has for people of any other color; but when amah Is made to convert her into a mere miserable colony for colored voters for political ends, under the pretense sf aiding the development of her notarial wealth, she will resent and tesist the base defilement and inflict punishment on ail who have conspired against her honorand good fame. Mr. New, in speaking of the coming of the male negro into Indiana, says--m “I think that an influjrof labor upon our farms and into onr workshops would certainly tend to tha material prosperity of the State.” THE WORKING DEOPLE OF THE STATE AGAINST THE REPUBLICAN POLITICIANS. Every witness examined, except republican officeholders and politicians, testified 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 bard lines, many of tbem not employed at all, objects of daily charity, and others obtaining a precarious subsistence from temporary and uncertain engagements. Mr. New says that if the proportion between the males and females was rhanged, so that tugro men constituted the influx of which he speaks upon our farms and Into our workshops, be 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 oue way. It is a book within itself, and I can not read it here. It oondemes 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 Bepublican Statu Central Committee of Indiana. There is no demand for the labor of the negro In Indiana, and every intelligent person in that State knows it. There is no call for his assistance in developing the future of the State; no outcry for his influx upon our farms or into our workshops, and on that issue I am willing to be judged by the people whom I represent when they next approach the ballot-bux. It is not an issue made by me. It is made by tbechairraanof the Republican State Central committee es Indiana and acceptedby tho gallant and faithful Democracy. ’The people of Indiana will make answer that it was a libel on them to declare that they were calling upon the pauper Africans of the South, or on any other element of that race, to come to Indiana, to swarm upon her farms, to raid her workshops, in order to develop her resources and to increase her material wealth. And in that answer will be found a verdict upon tbe evidence that a political conspiracy, and not the wishes ol her citizens, has inflicted upon Indiana tbeattempted outrage and pollution which she has undergone It will be a verdict which will relieve tho people of Indiana of the odiam of having in any way eolicltad the headlong, aenselese and most nnnaturai movement ot tbe blacks into their midst.