The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1879-05-08
THE COLORED NOSES.
Pap singleton Expresses His Views
on the Goiored Exodus From the
SGuth.


South.
| lG!Obs.Democrat.l
| Berj amin Singleton, better known as
"Pap" Singleton, and who has gained a
wide reputation among the whites and peo-
| pie Of his own race as "the Moses of the
colored exodus" called at the Globe s1no.
orGt office yesterday and gave glowing
| account Of the success of the colored set
tiemert in Morris and Lynn Counties, X an =,
| giving At the same time a most hopeful
picture OF the prospects OF the settlers, and
the object they Intend and hope to compass
before many years pass over their heads.
| As has been published before, the Single
| ton settlement is about sixty miles south
west of Topeka, Kansas, and embraces
| LOO 600 acres of the abandoned Indian X ser
| walton which the Government now proposes
| to dispose Of at low and alluring rates 10
-uch persons as desire to make permanent
,mes there. Pap" did not know when
3 re land wouid be placed in the market for
actual settlement, but supposed the time
could not BE- very far of The settlers al
ready on t.. lard are highly delighted
with the change they have made from the
uncertain ana unhealthy climate OF Middle
Tennes &c 10 the fertile and rolling plains
uf the great West. A number OF towns
have sIready been laid out, and are in a
progree ing way; one in particular, Dun
lap, in Morris County, being in a very
fistterirg and flonrishing condition. The
Singleton Colony, in Cherokee comfy, he
also reports as fixed and indisPuta5le
success.
pap" has beeo, until the recent il
creased excitement took place, constantly
travelling backw ri and forward between
Tennessee and tie West, and from 1869, the
year in which he first started out on his
mission OF delivering the coiored people
from the BONDAGE Of the buil.dozer to the
happy laud OF Kansas, he carried over IL
500 Of his people from Tennessee and ken-
lucky. He is constantly engaged In this
work, taking 1t up on every hand and urg-
ing colored men In all the distressed and
terror-ridden districts OF the South to shake
of their thraldom TO the Southern planters,
and, instead OF living In condition OF
serfdom, to become free men and good,
honest, and reputable citizens CT the he
public. He says Kansas is as good
country as the sun ever shone upon, and 1t
ia just the plsce for the poor man TO look
for home. The product Of the soil will repay
him amply for his labor, and besides this he
has the comfort and happiness OF health,
freedom, and citizenship. Pap"
advises all who ere not doing we'll
here or in the South to pack up and
go to Kansas at once-that is the
happy land of Canaan, and in the good
time coming if their cups OF Joy don't over
flow in an increased ratio to the overflow
Of their grainaries, 1t will be becsuse they
have not made use OF their minds and mus
cles with which the Almighty has endowed
them. He says there is Just az much neces |
siiy for cnlored emigration from st. Louis |
a. from Mississippi, Louisiana ard Tennes- |
see- The necessity may not arise from the |
ssme csuses, but 1t Is still as urgent ard
should be as fully recognized. There are
hundreds and thousands OF co!ored men |
here cut OF employ ment, who have not any |
means Of support and have no nesr pros |
pect Of work. These men be would advi-e |
10 turn their attention to Kansas and the
West, and TO seek cut new homes for them |
selves where the held for labor Is almost |
boundless, and the remuneration Is fsr |
in excess oil anything they can hope to OBJ |
tain here.
Are there msny colored people snxious
to leave St. Louis asked the reporter.
oh, yes, answered rap, a great
many. Inc coiored people here are very
anxious TO get away, but most oil them
have no money. 1 am deiignted 70 zee thai
q real estate association mas oeen started
and that already the treasurer holds good
round sum. Inc oe]sc' OF tins association
is similar to that OF one l started IN len