Colonel Dudley. Colonel Holloway. or General Straight. or any one else. in making this statement. Yet General Conway. with no possible motive to injure his brethren. but rather with a strong motiy e to shield them. swears directly and explicitly that he halted threeEays at Indianapolis on his trip South to aid the exodus in order to ascertain what encouragement. if any. there was for negro emigration to Indiana. that bothers met the chairman of the republican State central committee. the editor of the recognized State oran of the republican party. the postmaster of the city of Indianapolis. and many others. and thathe was assured by them thatfrom fivetoten thousandnegroes could find employment in that State. The numbers here spoken of were to be voters. not encumbered by women and children. for when General Conway was askedwhether the gentlemen -with whom he was in consultation at Indianapolis understood that the emigration of the negroes was to be of political advantage to the State. and for the purpose of carrying the State for the republicans. he answered that they understood the whole thing and gave it great encouragement. Thus again assured of political cooperation in his efforts. General Conway journeyed on fromludianapolis to Saint Louis and thence to Kansas City.
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