Q. Did the organization extend at all into other States farther away?--A. O, yes, sir. Q. Have you members in all the Southern States?--A. Not in every one, but in a great many of the others. Q. Are these members of that colonization council in communication as to the condition of your race, and as to the best thing to be done to alleviate their troubles?--A. O, yes. Q. What do you know about inducements being held out from politicians of the North, or from politicians anywhere else, to induce these people to leave their section of country and go into the Northern or Western States?--A. There is nobody has written letters of that kind, individually--not no white persons, I know, not to me, to induce anybody to come. Q. Well, to any of the other members of your council?--A. No, I don't think to any of the members. If they have, they haven't said nothing to me about it. It appears also from the evidence of Samuel L. Perry, of North Carolina, a colored man, who accompanied most of the emigrants from that State to Indiana, and who had more to do with the exodus from that quarter than any other man, that the movement had its origin as far back as 1872, as the following questions and answers will show: Q. You have heard a good deal of this testimony with reference to this exodus from North Carolina. Now begin at the beginning and tell us all you know about it.--A. Well, the beginning, I suppose, was in this way: The first idea or the first thing was, we used to have little meetings to talk over these matters. In 1872 we first received some circulars or pamphlets from O. F. Davis, of Omaha, Nebraska. Q. In 1872?--A. Yes, sir; in 1872--giving a description of government lands and railroads that could be got cheap; and we held little meetings then; that is, we would meet and talk about it Sunday evenings--that is, the laboring class of our people--the only ones I knew anything about; I had not much to do with the big professional Negroes, the rich men. I did not associate with them much, but I got among the workingmen, and they would take these pamphlets and read them over.