Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-05-09
THE NEGROES.
In National Convention.

NASHVILLE, May S.-An unusually
large assemblage was in attendance at
National COlored Convention to-day.
The most Ofthe day was spent in the pre-
scntation of resolutions for respective
committees.
A resolution was adopted accepting
the tender by B. +. Butler to donate
10000 acres of land, and by Zack
Chandler of homes for one hundred
families.
J. w. Cromwell, of Virginia from the
Committee on Labor and Education,
presented a report, which was adopted,
with the following recommendations:
We recommend to the various State
Legislatures the adoption of a compul-
sorry system of public education; also,
that conference committee OF
five from each State be appointed
to memorable their respective
legislatures looking to this end and ask
a more eficaciOus system OF this great
bnlwark of our freedom, happiness and
rights to be established; further, thatitis
the sense of this conference that separ-
ate schools are highly detrimental to the
interests of both races in that such
schools foster the race prejudices, but
where they do exist colored teachers
should be employed in preference to
white teachers.
The conference memoralizes Congress
to place in the hands OF the Board OF Re-
gents of the cOlored men the sum OF
$500, 900, the amount of the unclaimed
bounty of colored soldiers and sailors OF
the federal army during the late war,
the same to be used in establishing and
maintaining an industrial and technical
school for colOred youths in the unoc-
cupied buildings of Harper's Ferry, or
at any other place of easy access.
John d. Lewis, of Pennsylvania, read
the report of the Committee on Perma-
nent Organization, and reported the
constitution of the American Protec-
tive Society" to prevent injustice to
colorcd people. The objects OF the
society are declared to be: /. To foster
a National union. 2. To protect civil and
political rights. 8. To facilitate educa-
tional and moral improvement. 4. To
encourage agricultural and business
capacity. 5. To encourage the purchase
of agricultural land, and the removal
thereof from all States where colored
people are unjustly treated. 6. To i'm
prove the sanitary relations among col
ored people.
Section two authorizes that this so
cety be organized by the enrolment OF
a majority of the members OF this con-
ference, and be officered by the officers
elect of this and each successive annual
conference, who shall hold Office one
year; also one vice-president from each
Congressional district, and who shall act
as an executive committee for the whole,
with power to issue certificates OF au-
thority To one ,ice-president in any
State 10 organize and establish branch
society under the same name and for
the same purposes; further, that the So
ciety solicit the cooperation and aid OF
capitalists, moneyed men and other
benevolent societies to assist in
promoting the healthy settlement
Of colored people IN the West on
agricultural lands; that each branch so
ciety shall be empowered to receive
gifts or bequests from any person or
persons who may die within the dis
trict where the branch may be located,
and TO collect money, &c, for the ad-
vancement of the society. All funds
collected shall he applied by the State,
whereof it shall have been collected for
the objects herein named.
W. F. Yardley, of Tennessee, offered
the following:
ResOlued, That it is the sense OF this
conference that the migration Of col
ored people to those States and territories
where they can enjoy all rights which are
guaranteed by the laws and constitution
Of the United States and enforced by
the executive departments of such
States and Territories, and we ask of the