Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1862-08-26
EMIaR ALTON OF COL0RED PERSONS
TO CENTRAL AMERICA,

Senator . q. fomeroy has, by request Of the
President, consented to organize emigration par.
ties Of free colored persons for settlement in Cen.
tal America, ana be commissioned accord.
ingly. This gentlemans former success In or.
ganiIing emigrant expeditions for the settlement
OF Kansas and Colorado sHords guaranty Of a
happy contamination Of his present plans. The
government proposes to send out the emigrants
In good steamships, and provide them all neces-
sary implements Of labor, and also sus,enance
until they can gather harvest
The following address. prepared by Senator
Pom:roy, has teen sanctioned by the President:
TO fHR FREE coLoRsD rIoPLH or THE UNITED
STATES.
The hour has now sfrived In the history of
your settlement upon this continent when II is
within your own power to take one step that will
social position Of your race upon the American
continent.
The President Of the United States has already
sgnined his desire to carry out fully in the letter
OF the national Legislature which made an ap
p'opriat!on to facilitate your emigration and
settlement In some favorable locality outside Of
sn,se states; And a. his reques. have consented
this emigration, and In selecting LOCALITY that
will be valuable and attractive to your people In
Itself, az well a. give promise 70 you and US that
II shall be suitable location for great, fee and
prosperous people.
] now address you 40 one awake to this mo-
mentous revolution in American history; alive
also to your interests in this conflict Of arms,
whereoy you are led to hope that In thus unset
Ting established institutions your people may 90
free. This, then, 10 the hour for you to make one
earnast effort to secure your own social position
who now reach out their hands to aid you. I
ask you to do this by the pride you NAV have 70
make another exhibition to the world Of the valor,
heroism and virtue Of the colored race by the
love you may have fer your struggling and OPP
pressed people now among u', - welt as bv the
hopes you may indulge OF making smooth and
prosperous the pathway Of coming generations.
propose on the Arst day Of october next to
movement, who, with their families, may equal
the number Of Ave hundred souls, and for whose
bsIeht the appropriations In the acts Of Congress
referred to were made The President will pro-
vide for US the means Of transportation and the
protection o! the settlement Being familiar with
the organizing and settling Of the early emigra-
ton to my own State, (Kansas,) will Indulge
the hope that my experience may be made ser
viceable to you. l am In earnest for the welfare
Of your people, present and prospective. ! want
you to consider this a. An suspicious period for
you.
II this travail and pain Of the nation becomes
the birthday Of your freedom, let Us plant you
free and independent beyond the reach OF the
power that has oppressed you. Consider this
an opening by the wisdom Of Divine Providence,
when you are called Of God to 20 with me to
country which your oppressed people soon TO
receive for their Inheritance. propose to exam
Inc, and II found satisfactory and promising, to
settle you at Chiriqui, In New Grenada, with the
approval Of the government, only about one weeks
sail from Warrington, D. G.
All person Of the African race Of sound health
who desire to take with me the lead In this work
will please send their Names the mum Der, sex and
ages Of the respective members OF their families
and their post Office address, to me at the city Of
Washington, d G.
No white person will be allowed as a member
OF the colony. want mechanics and laborers In
earnest, honest and sober men; for the interests Of
generation, it may be Of mankind, are involved
In the success cf this experiment And with the
appreciation Of the American people, and under
the blessing Of Almighty GOD 1t cannot-it shall
not nil. B. G. POMBRoY, U. 8. Senator.