Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1881 — THE PERISHING NEGROES. [ARTICLE]

THE PERISHING NEGROES.

A correspondent, in a recent number of the N, Y. Tribune, writing under the head of “Excdusters,” Portrays—unwittingly perhaps—the hollow and hypocritical pretentions of the Rgpublicans who professed themselves pre-eminently the friends and benefactors of the freedmen previous to the late election, and who now treat them as pestsand burdens. In proof of this, we mane the following extract from the article reffered to: il We don’t want any more “exodustors” in Indianapolis. We consider them a burden. We have enough heavy folk to carry along with u® to make our progress slow. The colored population comerh up like a flower and stingeth like an adder. They do not pay county taxes, yet have to be provided with schools, libraries, streets, gas and water, at great trouble and expense. They have the deplorable knack of getting along on scrapings and leavings, and living with little work. They have never been taught the danger of waste and idleness, ana do not know that laziness is th® grossest form of selfish ness. The less th®}’ do the worse they hate to do it. The white blood in them does not seem to be a good sort ol white blood, is not energetic nor aspiring. Appalling immigration I O for an industrious rascal! Previous to the election, the tone of the Republican press toward this unfortunate race was replete with expressions of friendship and sympathy; but, alas! how strangely is it altered. The condition of theselndi. anap®lis negroes is blissfull compared with those who were carried into Kansas. The means used, and tb® object for which these ignorant ami unsuspecting people were enticed from their southern homes, and left to wander on the bleak and barren plains of bleeding Lansas, is no se cret and needs no exposition. The sam< political mediums which were active and persistent in urging forward this state of things now proclaim the fact that these poor negroes are perishing by thousands— that an cared for, they are without food or clothing, and that they are freezing and starving in a manner that is distressing to contemplate. These destitute and perishing creatures, who were induced to leave their southern homes by the ®missaries of the Republican party, received assurances that they would be protected and properly cared for, Their dreadful condition showes in what way these stipulations have been fulfilled. To acquire a political ascend.eney and a party triumph, they have bden lead like sh®ep to the slaughter. Thus abandoned they are left to the public generally for relief. Can it be possible that a party embracing within its ranks nearly all the wealth of the country and claiming to be the very salt of the earth will refuse aid to these and Indianapolis sufferers? Will they shirk their respoasibility by throwing the aurden upon th® public at large ? These negroes are properly and peculiarly the wards of the Kepubli•an party, and it is a shameful breach of obligation to desert them in their perishing condition. If from no other consideration, gratitude alone should •ecureßepublican aid; for these em Igrants contributed essential aid and secured the parties success. J. M

Sunday comes on the 17th of April. Ex-Governor Seymour is slowly j recovering from his recent hint ss> , ,n»d is saying with lus sister, Mr A 110-.vo Conkling, in Utica. Colonel gu-.iillu John 8. Mosby is mvbt.une i as the text Republican cuudida'.e for Goveiuor of Virginia, it is said a movement already is on f>ot .o secure lor him the nomination. J<lm Randolph useif to wear a blue riding coat uijd buckskin breeclicfe, W arn a member of Congress. H e nearly always rode to the Capitob .itlemkd by a black servant who was as weil mounted as idmseif. One of the fiercest fights over the liquor question is uow iu progies? in Mi.-Kiouri. A stringent prohibitory law seems likely to be passed by the Legislature, the country members outnumbering the city members, who nuously oppose the measure. A Aery simple remedy—and said to be effective—t® rid canary birds of mites is to place a clean white cloth over th® cage at n’ght. The vermin leave the bird and gather upon the elm h. They are yeiy.small, red, and si-aieely diseOinP’l • with the naked eye- _ Delegate Cannon, whil : making a speech was interrupted by a broth' r Congressman, who asked him how many wives he had. Cannon, loade I to the muzzle, fired back, “1 have wives enough to keep me from interfering with other men’s wives. ’ Polygamy won that time. Mr. Poter Cooper, on his ninetieth birthday slept until the morning had nearly passed, and when he arose ate as hearty a breakfast as he ever did in his life. Many old friends called at nis house during the day. In the evening the pupils of the Cooper In stitute gave him a reception. < This is the way that the Philadelphia Times tells it: “Governor Porter, of Indiana, visited tiu State Senate Chamber in Indianapolis the other lay, and. because he could not find a seat,-turned angrily to the doorkeep, er with: "Why don’t you bring me a chair, sir?” The doorkeeper, who knew Porter very well, stared at him for'a moment and then said, in a voice that was heard all over Uie Chamber: “Who is that d—d little red Leaded cuss asking for a chair?