amount is _paid in current money at the end of each month_,
unless otherwise stipulated in the contract. Occasionally a
tenement house is found on the larger farms, where a laborer
lives with his family, and either rents a portion of the farm or
cultivates it on special contract with the landlord. _With us
there is no class of laborers as such. The young man who today
may be hired as a laborer at monthly wages, may in five years
from now be himself a proprietor, owning the soil he cultivates
and paying wages to laborers. The upward road is open to all_,
and its highest elevation is attainable by industry, economy, and
perseverance.

Sixteen dollars per month, with board! Everybody equal before the
law! No class of laborers as such! The hired man of today himself
the owner of a farm in five years! No cheating of tenants, but
everything paid in current money. And if all this will not
attract the Negro he is told there is an "asylum in every county"
to which he can go when unable to support himself. The document
also promises to everybody "free schools" in "brick or stone
school-houses," and says they have "2,000,000 greater school fund
than any State in the Union." These Democratic documents have
been circulated by the thousand, and doubtless many of them have
found their way into the Negro cabins of North Carolina. It is
not surprising that the Negro looks with longing eyes to that
great and noble State.

CAUSES OF THE EXODUS

There is surely some adequate cause for such a movement. The
majority of the committee have utterly failed to find it, or, if
found, to recognize it. When it was found that any of their own
witnesses were ready to state causes which did not accord with
their theory they were dismissed without examination, as in the
cases of Ruby and Stafford, and a half dozen others who were
brought from Kansas, but who on their arrival here were found to
entertain views not agreeable to the majority.

We regret that a faithful and honest discussion of this subject
compels a reference to the darkest, bloodiest, and most shameful
chapter of our political history. Gladly would we avoid it, but
candor compels us to say that the volume which shall faithfully
record the crimes which, in the name of Democracy, have been
co