The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-04-17
Dnped ColOred Emigrants.

The St. Louis Christian Adrocatc quotes
from the St. Louis Presbyterian q circu-
lar, copies of which are said to have
been extensively distributed in Missis-
sippi and Louisiana. This circular,
which is indorsed "strictly private" is
dated from the "Office of Colored Colo
nization Society, Topeka, Kansas, Feb
ruary 2, 1S79," and is headed Attention,
Colored Men p 1t goes on to say that
"Your brethren and friends throughout
the North have observed with painful
solicitude the outrages heaped upon you
by your rebel masters, and are doing all
they can to alleviate your miseries and
provide for your future happiness and
prosperity. President Hayes, by his
iniquitous Southern policy, has deserted
you, while the Democrats, who now have
control of Congress, will seek to enslave
you if you remain South, and to pro-
tect you from their designs the coloniza-
ton society has been organized by the
government to provide land for each head
Of family, which will be given in bod
les of 160 acres gratuitously. This land
is located in the best portion of Kansas,
in close proximity to Topeka, and is
very productive. Here there are no dis
tinctions in society; all are on an equal
ity. Leave the land of oppression and
come to free Kansas. Lycurgus P. Jones,
President. Show this circular to none
but cclored men, and keep its contents a
secret"
1t is almost impossible to believe that
such cruel piece of deception as this
could be practiced upon these poor,
harmless, gnorant people-a barbarity
worse by far than the most atrocious of
the outrages attributed to the "bull-
dozers"-but the evidence that the col
ored people have been designedly duped
is growing stronger from day to day.
The Adrocate quotes the Presbyterian iur-
ther as averring that "some of the poor
creatures" have discovered how grossly
they have been deceived, and "have
written to their white friends in the
South asking help to return home. All
of them will be similarly enlightened
when they reach their journeys end"
The St. Louis Globe Democrat, good Re-
publican authority, also reports that some
of the victims of the Kansas fever are
very sick of it already, and are longing
to ''go home" again. Three of them re-
turned to their former residences in Mad
ison Parish, La, few days ago the
means having been furnished them by
their late employers. These denied that
they had been ill-treated in Louisiana,
and said that they habitually voted the
Republican ticket without molestation.
These men had voluntary called on a
firm of St. Louis cotton brokers and ask
ed to have their passage paid for the
homeward voyage. They said they had
no particular reason for leaving the South
except that they'd "hearn tell" of Kan
sas, and "as all de people was talkin'
about comin'," they jest bundled up their
things and come along" They had been
sick ever since they came to st. Louis,
and were very eager to get back. One
of them said he meant to warn sail de
folks" against turning their faces up the
river and looking for Kansas. When he
was home, he said, 81 had nice garden,
fourteen hogs, mules and plow and every
thing, and could lay down at my ease
and enjoy the water drank. But went
North, and here am, homesick
and nigh distracted. Folks in the
North don't want you niggahs, and don't
you CO." There is, indeed proof that
"folks in the North" do not want the
colored cmigrants. At meeting recent
ly held in Wyandotte, Kansas, where
there are 1900 of these expatriated
freedmen. destitute and suffering, it was
declared and resolved that the communi-
ty was not able to take care OF the emf
grants any longer, and the State author
tiles were called up for aid. Of course
there are no government lands in any
accessible section for these people to
take up, and the claim of the "Colored
Colonization Society" Of Topeka that
quarter sections Of good soil are in its
control for gratuitous distribution in close
proximity to that city is utterly false as
all the other statements made in tho cir
cular.