Brown. Judge Thomas Settle. and others. and told him with necessary financial aidI ould take eight to ten thousand to Indiana. three or four thousand to West Vrirginia. and two or three thousand to Connecticut. of the best laborers and safest voters in the world. in time to become legal voters in 1892. whieh would place the result In those States beyond doubt in the next Presidential election. At a later stage in my remarks I wirl demonstrate that the alleged oppression and persecution of the colored people of North Carolina. assigned in this letter as a reason for their emigration. is a total falsehood and was used by the writer simply as a sort of screen through which to filter his corrupt scheme into the minds of his Northern coadjutrs. In scanning this statement of Lindsey. however. nothing is more striking and suggestive than the high rank and commanding influence of the allies he sought in theprsecution of his nefarious work. The first name he mentions is that of the present R~epublican Clerk of the Republian House of Representatives. with whom he says he had an interview "in regard to our work." and at whose suggestion he wrote to the chairman of the national Republican committee. the second name mentioned. at Beaver.
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