Langsdale. the postmaster at that large and important town. appears to have been selected to do most of this work. while the whole republican press of the State and all the leaders of that party stood by either in silent or outspoken approval of its course. Notawhisprhadbenhard from the negroes themselves on this subject up to that time. The thought of emigrating in large bodies from their homes in the South had not until then occurred to them. But in seeking the origin of the negro exodus I am not confined to the republican papers and postmasters of Indiana. Thereis high authority in this body for the assertion that it was conceived in the brain of a northern white man and not in that of a southern black man.
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