Session #46 · 1879–81

Speech #460045333

I said that if any delusion was brought to bear upon these people. it was the delusion that they might be able to hotter their condition. I have conversed. as I stated. with a great many of them. There are colonies all over my State. There are colonies up the Arkansas Valley. There is a colony in Graham County. which has a postoffice called Nicodemus. where there are some four or five hundred colored emigrants. I think from Tennessee and Kentucky. They are a selfsustaining. industrious. lawabiding class of people. who came there as any other emigrants come. for the purpose of bettering their condition. and for nothing else. and when these statements are made-
Keywords matched
emigrants

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Positive
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
95%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Economic contributor

Speaker & context

Speaker
JOHN INGALLS
Party
R
Chamber
S
State
KS
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
460045333
Paragraph
#0
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