Some thousands of them have started. Already their waihngs and cries of despair reach us from the bleak shores of Kansas. A few weeks ago these colored emigrants with their helpless women and children left a land where spring sat upon forest and fields clad in her glorious garments of green all spangled with ten thousand bright flowers brought into life and beauty by the warm wooings of her balmy brealfa. They have reached the shores of the "promised land." where timid spring still hesitates to smile lest her warm impulses he frozen hy the tyrant winters breath. Cold and naked and hungry. these wretched dupes raise a piteous cry for aid. The public charity is appealed to. bills for the relief of these unfortunate and starving emigrants have been introduced in this and the otherbranch of the National Legislature. and I wonder. Mr. Chairman. if upon the patriotic and philanthropic vision of the republican statesmen there is not adumbrating the enchanting dream of another "Freedmans Bureau." with its capacity to rob. to plunder. to steal. to mislead. and to ruin. and all for the benefit of the republican party and republican patriots.
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