The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-04-11
LYCURGUs ISSUES A CIRCULAR
[Strictly Private.l
ATTENTION. COLORED MEN !

OFFICE OF CoLoRKD CoLoNIz ALTON SOCIETY,"
TOPEKA, Kans Feb 2. 1872.
north have observed with painful solicitude
the outrages heaped upon you by your rebel
ate your miseries and provide for your future
happiness and prosperity. President Hayes,
by his ubiquitous southern policy, has desert
control of congress, will Geek to re-enslave
you II you remain in the south, and to protect
ciety has been organized by the GoVernment
20 provide land for each head OF family,
which Will be giyeP: in !, bodies Of IeS acres
portion Of Kansas, in close proximity to To-
peka, and is very productive. Here there Is
ity. Leave the land of oppression and Come
LYcURGUs P JONES, President
Show this circular to none but cOlQred men,
and keep its con tents o secret.
The above, which was clipped from
some newspaper, was handed our report
er yesterday, by Mr.. D. III. Forbes, who
received it in letter from his brother in
st. Louis. Never having heard of any
such person, much less of q colored col
opiZation society, and equally ignorant
of any act of congress which granted to
every head of q family 1870 acres of land,
"located in the best portion of Kansas,
in close proximity to Topeka" he start
ed out on tour of investigation, which
resulted in nothing definite, except that
no one of those with whom he conversed
had ever heard of this gentleman with
the lengthy name.
The fact that the PRESIDENT . urges Sc
cresy as to the contents of the circulars,
and that they are to be shown to no one
except colOred men, Is in itself, enough
to arouse such suspicion. The lies it
contains make the document an
OUTRAGEOUS MEASURE
for hOodwinking further the blacks who
are now in a condition which is bad
enough without adding the misery which
must follow their fiocking to Kansas,
with nothing to live on.
1t is evident that Lyourgus p Jones is
Q myth, and the man who signs himself
as such at the bottom of the above circ-
ular is
FRAUD PAR EXCELLENCE.
There could be but one object in send
ing such an infamous document broad
cast through the ignorant blacks of the
south: that is to make money for the
senders at the expense of their victims !;
and 1t is said-the truth of the statement
is not yet verified as to this city, however
that some of the parties engaged in
this wholesale exodus scheme have been
getting small amounts from the colored
emigFants, as fees for information and in
structions as to hog their claims against
the government for the promised farm
should be prosecuted.
In st. Louis this game has been played
with considerable success, and In les
ser degree along the road between here
and there; so that If the scheme is al
lowed to progress in the next two weeks
as 1t has in the last two, we will not only
have our
CITY FULL OF coLORED PEOPLE,
who are strangers to our climate and
modes of farming, but they will all have
been defrauded IN the coming.
1t will, therefore, be well for the au-
thorities to look closely into the matter,
and If any one is found tampering with
those who are already here or who are
still to come, deal with them as the law
provides. The railroad companies, too,
should be on the look out for these swim
dlers, for while they may make a pit
lance troEa the transportation of the de-
luded people, the effect of the frand win
rebound upon them with a double force
as accessories, in manner, to it..