Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-16
COLORED COLONIZATION.
The Plan That IL Proposed for Sslv-
ing the Negro Question.

Washington, February IA. : Senator
Ingalls, has petition, signed by q
large number of representative me-
groes, which he will present In the
senate at the first opportunity. The
document expresses In the concrete
what the colored separation party has
been voicing for a long time, 1t starts
out by reciting the alleged oppressive
treatment of the colored people, not
only In the South, but wherever they
are brought into contact and competi-
ton with the whites. TIL memorial
lsts assert that they are fully pursuad-
ed theh condition will never be Inn
proved until they possess their
own homes, and are per-
mitted to enact and apply
their own municipal and local
laws. They plead especially in behalf
the Indian Territory, Arkansas, Mis-
slssippl and other Southern states,
whom the leaders in the late civil
war intended TO emanclpate,n but who
are in bondage still. The prayer OF
the memorial is that the United States,
out OF a plethoric treasury that the
colored people have helped to an, do.
nate IA sufficient subsistence and re-
moval fund, and from its vast domain,
which the same race helped 10 secure
intact, set apart Oklahoma and adjoin-
ing public lands for exclusive settle
ment under existing laws for
the colored race. The me-
mortal is sgined by John w.
Niles, the apostle of the Colored In
depnity party of Arkansas, Lea Fair
ris of the Indian Territory, George
Kinsley of Louisiana, W. III. James
and p. h. Wilson Of Virginia and
many others. Oklahoma will be re-
membered as the object OF Capt.
fayne's persistent efforts to occupy.
Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Kan.
sns and the Indian Territory.
In connection with this movement
there is another, started with view
TO withdrawing the colored vote from
the arena OF national politics, rather
than with any idea OF It's immediate
success, according To the admissions of
of its projectors. II is the nomination
OF u ticket for president and vice.pres-
ident by the colored race. The head
of the ticket Is to be occupied 10y Robt.
Brown Elliott, n very black man, who
was member of the Forty Second
and Forty-Third congresses from South
Carolina, reslgning from the latter, af-
ter having served i've months, on be-
ing elected sheriff. He was born in
Boston in 1912 and received his educa-
ton in England, graduating In 1850
from Elton college. In 1868 he was
n member Of the state constitutional
convention of South Carolina, was
member of the state house of represent
tatives from July, 1868, 10 October,
1870, when he was appointed ndjutant-
general of the state. The second place
on the ticket IL 10 be given To p. b. S.
Piucnback, eX-United States senator,
whose life and varied achievements are
well known.
On the other hand there IL Il pretty
general movement In the South, aud In
this district, TO have the colored inilu-
ence east In favor of Senator Logan.
This Is the only ascertainable result of
the recent colored convention Mt Lou
isVille. The executive committee of
that body was lately in this city en-
deavoring To bring before congress the
memorials In favor of an amendment
TO the constitution TO replace that do
clared imperative by the supreme
court securing the rights of colored
people, for the government mid to edu-
cation, etc. They LEFT without pro-
ducing any appreciable impression
upon the national Legislature.