American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-04-26
HOW TO MAKE A SOLID NORTH.
A Magnificent Project for Col0nizinR Me-
groes in the Northern Democratic

A Magnificent Project for Colonizing Me-
groes in the Northern Democratic
washington Special to Chicago Times.l
There Is a man in Washington with a
bcheme to elect Republican President in
1850 by importing from the South enough
negr6es to carry the three States of New
York, Ohio and Indiana. His name is "Col."
Hooker of New York; and he is brother
in-law of the late James Fisk. He INTENDS
to lay his plan before the leading Hepubi1-
cans in Congress and hoper to have it adopt
ed. He says million dollars can be rais-
ed in New York in single day for this pttr-
pose. He would go into the South and
boldly advertise his scheme and get as
many recruits as possible and then ship
them North to be distributed by agents
among the farmers of the States in which
they are needed. One hundred thousand to
New York, $4,000 to Ohio and 10000 to In
| to turn the scale and give those three
States over to the Republican party.
He says this plan is legitimate and
feasible. 1t can not be censured as o
be accomplished openly and by fair means.
The amount of money required will be less
| than would in any event be spent for cam :
paign purposes and the result would be q
not be overcome by tactics Of any sort what
! ever. This brilliant scheme was suggested
| by the rapidity with which the colored peo-
| pie of the South have followed the sugges ion
| session of Congress by Senator Window.
| Col. Hooker says If there were more time he
would not have the slightest doubt of the
| perfect success of this plan, but all the ma
| chinery will have to be perfected and put in
| operation so as to leave the immigrants at
| then place of future residence by next fall
| SO that they will have been residents Of their
| respective States year before the election
| in 1880. If he receives the cooperation OF
! leading Republicans he proposes to go to
work Immediately. He thinks the negroes
who once emigrated to the North will never
| go back to their old homes.
Is 1t Another Freedmen's Bank SwindIe
Washington Special to n. o. Times.l
There is an impression among Southern
people here that the new emigration scheme
| leading Republican Senators, is only an
| other huge Job, which will result in great
er swindle than the Freedmen's Bureau rob-
| berry did a few years ago. Some of the per-
| in pushing 1t are interested in land grants
belonging to Western railroads. Window
| is interested-if not directly-at least indi-
rectly in the Northern Pacific, and when he
alludes so pathetically to the "prairies OF
| the West whose fertile lands are awaiting
| the pillow of the humble agriculturist from
the South, +" he no doubt refers to the Red
River country, where the thermometer falls
| to 40 degrees below zero in winter and il
| lasts until the first of May, and the cheerful
grasshopper devours every green thing
.bout four years out of five.
There are reasons for believing that some
| Internal swindle and job is at the bottom OF
! all this new zeal for the colored man, just
| as it was when the freedmen were encour-
aged to send their little savings to the Freed
mems Bank here, and they were devoured
| by the friends of 1.-THE greatest OF modern
Presidents" Certain gentlemen from Mis-
sissippi are keeping a close look out, and
will soon expose the scheme, IL there is any
! job in it.
Ben Buffers Head Level This Time.
NEW YORK, April 9.-The Suns Boston
correspondent says: Reference is being
made to a scheme recently mentioned fol
rendering New York, Ohio and Indiana safe
Republican States in 1880 by inducing q
quarter of million uneasy black men from
| the South to move into them in time to be-
come bona fide citizens and voters. Gen
| Butler has declared that " the inevitable re-
| suit of such proceeding would be to render
those States Democratic beyond doubt
This would be done by the votes of the work
| ingmen, who would be raised to intense hos.
tiity against the party which imported such
| a throng to compete with them in the al
ready overstocked labor market. The feel
| ing would be as bitt er as that now existing
| in California against the Chinese. People
| who do not sympst hiZe with the anti-Chi-
nese sentiment would feel differently when
they saw a similar state of things existing
among themselves. The best place to have
| boil is on another m n"