It is a historic fact that so far as this movement has been organized hitherto. the great bulk of the migration has been tbward the State which I represent. The exodus of the colored people to Kansas up to this time has been the great fact to which the attention of the country has been called. The emigration to Indiana is an incident. trivial. inconsequential. compared with that great movement from the lower portion of the Mississippi Valley that poured its deluge upon our plains in the early part of the current year. Not less than seven thousand of those people under some great controlling impulse abandoned their homes. their possessions. their associates. and came to Kansas for the purpose of seeking homes und identifying themselves with a new people. Now. sir. it has been repeatedlystated during this debate today by the Senator from Georgia and by the Senator from North Carolina that there was sone secret. sinister. mysterious political influence by which these people were sought to be transferred from the South for the purpose of overcoming democratic majorities in the North.
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