Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-01-22
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Henry Clay's Old African Colonization
Soci,ty In Session.
The Old Fogies Walked Up by Bop,b.
shell Of Modern Thought.
Problem Of Negro Destiny and White
Supremacy In the South.
special Correspondence of tho Gazette.

ihV.'HB w ht AMERICAN SOIonlZatlOn
Society this morning, Hon. John Is.
Wolft startled the old gentleman who
constitutes the slow. proper and pre-
else machinery OF this an-
tiquated institution, by presenting,
informally, scheme by which prnc-
neal and effective results may be
achieved In transferring the negro to
ms original habitat. He came u savage,
perhaps nn Improvement on the ourang
outang, lie has become II man, ev, n
II Kin to Fred Douglass and remotely
10 l.angston, the admirable minister
10 Hayu. $50 great has been the trans
formation wrought by slavery. which
IN The process of years became servi.
tude, and then serfdom aud absolute
freedom ana then citizenship, that n
negro does not know himself. Fred
lDougiass doesn't know him. The ben
eiact'on done has been so great and 40
miraculous have been its results that
the greatest of negroes In no longer n
negro. He absolutely assumes that he
IL an American de fdct0 when lie IL
only such In the laws blind eyes.
Those who make these laws assent.
ouI Gpd DEGREES are sill unrepealed,
aud the negro Is still n negro, and the
oct an mat separated the races, IN the
worlds infancy, is M deep and broad
as en- first dug by the hand of ON.
niporeh,e There rs no more uuiiy
tnuh when Wiib.riorce and old George
Mason aud the South, representatives
IN the federal constitutional con en-
tlon were inveighing against the Afri
can slave trade conducted by our New
England forefathers
GENUINE AFRICANS.
If Christianity and civilization and
supposed fitness for tasks ufcitlzpnship
be worth anything, the South has
given these boons Ia the hapless race.
and Vet l. only reviled for its benefit
,ence. The negro never but once CON
Ieri,u his debt of gratitude. and this |
when the late Gen. Bedford Forrest
from Savannah to Mem. |
Dhis aud Nicksburg and New Or cans
, body Of original Africans imported |
~ Curry on TIE good ship Wan |
ierer in 1857. Al each railway sta
ion and in every city, wherever
hese little siuewy, bullet-bead,d
Md gizzurd-footed original Saplbos
we're exhibited. the plantation blacks
we're gathered in great multitudes aud
heir hilarily knew no bounds. The,
I'D think their kinsman from beyond
ne hea, We iuniiiest ana most despi'
800 $3.50 H. ~ e,.n'uIes' and IN"
.m dr., VI VI. m'nuerer ireieht "
udlcrous triunphal procession. Fer
esi honestly believed that the slave
raider, despite cruelties made COM
ulsory 10y the very laws prohibiting
could be made the final redemption
,r - 10. IT, .,t,,,'',.'' ne ma',
lav. ,rnJ, M S.,'.,h W ''o AlrIcaii
rn,, oou.h never approved
:, ~ .,,'a ps"p,e sn,u we nave
49,. .,','.'l'.I,. noiue,s ior saW
uiJiv ,n,,,,i III 'o On po,."''oil OF the
ia ;,asS i"oe, anu the
80 pu' P",. ~ PoPuialile ana
r., ~ wy ,1"p si"se''rautr ..
To-. s nB,o WUu,u anve peen ths
49, hoouy "enieu VINO cohtrasted Z
,.se oiie'har hIr'cans WIN 'he freh
Wv peiiou anu WIN the
WIS.," VI VIC H''e''o"'' negro race.
BoMBsHELL AMONG THE OLD :,
FELLOWS.
But John b. Wolf, AN ardent negro. y
lilist, started the colonization society >
, his advocacy of the following nrn.
pre-supposinp the nbsoiut, v
I'd immediate u.cessitv for IN. sevre.
ton of the races, He propo.ed.
]. To secure i'm A fr,ca enn,yh land :,
sting notl, ing. for Id. 600 600 SETTLERS
1. To issue three Der cent bonds
sed on this land aud subseouent i'm
oyemepts. @
To survey and Mint the lind Ms
eded. u
4 On each tract for each family To q
DIVIDE cabin, team, pillow, tool, seed p
q ioon III crup may be produced, u
" ny senator Aicorn does IN redeem- p
Z vast tracts ana ADDING Them 10 his ~
AT, IN the swaiiips"i the MISSISSIPPI ~
Inc only diiierence being That Al pl
rn, instead OF me negro, II the holder ~ .,
the ultimate litle 10 me farm. "
10 direct the industrious, sell the ~
Ips, Iurnish supplies al cost, retain Il 81
Tam per cent 'or embarrassment, ~
penses, interest on bonds, or any ~
ler legitimate purpose. W
- obigate each ehIigrant TO invest ~
= per cent OF net proceeds on the ~
nus OF Tue company 10 ne repaid
zen me purpose IL accomplished, Or "
the n,nI winding up. 7.
- " heh eih'eIahts nave Ieinipurs- vi
tleanlnlln's expended Tor them sew ~, ~
Wy, NIKE 'ne iee ~ tne ianu com -.
,,e' wneI, sne en.Te n,acn'hery - ~
~ anu an" s,n No. n,;o n noa npP'y W ~
igress ior eioo'Voo'oVV III IuItherahce ~
ne ouJsct. -,
u cou'se coihlor.ap,e transportation %
'st oe proviaen, anu every reasonh- a. -,
.hiuR mus. DC oohe 10 "iAhe tue ~, -.
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