not more than _two
hundred voters had gone to Indiana_.

Sixth. The exodus movement originated entirely with the colored
people themselves, who for many years have been organizing for
the purpose of finding relief in that way, and the colored agents
of such organizations have traveled all over the South consulting
with their race on this subject.

Seventh. A long series of political persecutions, whippings,
maimings and murders committed by Democrats and in the interest
of the Democratic party, extending over a period of fifteen
years, has finally driven the Negro to despair, and compelled him
to seek peace and safety by flight.

Eighth. In some States a system of convict hiring is authorized
by law, which reinstates the chain-gang, the overseer, and the
bloodhound substantially as in the days of slavery.

Ninth. A system of labor and renting has been adopted in some
parts of the South which reduces a Negro to a condition but
little better than that of peonage and which renders it
impossible for him to make a comfortable living, no matter how
hard he may work.

Tenth. The only remedy for the exodus is in the hands of Southern
Democrats themselves, and if they do not change their treatment
of the Negro and recognize his rights as a man and a citizen, the
movement will go on, greatly to the injury of the labor interests
of the South, if not the whole country.

WILLIAM WINDOM.
HENRY W. BLAIR.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Congressional Record, 46th Congress, 2d Session, X, p. 155.

[2] _Ibid._, pp. 155-170.

[2a] Congressional Record, 46th Congress, 2d Session, X, p. 170.

[3] Reports of Committees of Senate of the United States for the First
and Second Sessions of the Forty-Sixth Congress, 1879-80, VII, pp.
iii-xiii.

[4] Report of the Committee of the Senate of the United States for the
First and Second Sessions of the Forty-Sixth Congress, 1879-80, VII,
pp. viii-xxv.

SOME UNDISTINGUISHED NEGROES

MR. J. H. LATROBE, corresponding secretary of the Maryland
Colonization Society and later President of the American Colonization
Society, has left the following story:

"It was while I was reading in the same room with General Harper that
there entered one day a tall, gaunt, square-shouldered, spare, light
mulatto