The Press., 1886-06-03
INDIGNATION MEETING.

An interesting meeting of representa- lives of the Col0Fe race was held in Phil adelphia recently, under the auspices 1of the Affico American league, to express in- dignation at the recent massacre in Car 1 fOllton, Miss, and other outrages against colored people in the south. The large hall was crowded full and listened eagerly to number of the foremost colored ora tors of the day. The resolutions which were adopted recite tue unavenged mur- ders of thirteen colored men while attend ing court of justlce Ut Carrollton, to- gether with the fact that there has been little or no effort on the part of state or federal government to bring the guilty parties to justice condemn the state au- thorities and the legislature as parties to the crime assert that such outrages are perpetrAted largely in obedience to pub lie sentiment ill favor of expressing the negro, which sentiment represents the dis position of the dominant race, and con efndes as follows "That we will hence forth use whatever honorable means there may be in our grasp to secure to ourselves,
 toour brethren in the south and to our pOsterity the protection of life and liberty.
 Robert Purvis, president of the evening, speaking on the resolutions, said ''The only wonder to me iB that we have not
 risen mp spontaneously ut this dsmnable
 outrage. My blood boils when I see the gingerly, mcaly -mouthed manner ill which
 the press of my country has handled the subject. am almost compelled to be- lieve that we are looked upon as aliens.
 We are to the manor born we are Amer
 jeans. Proceeding, he paid his respects
 to the colonization society, strongly deny ing the assertion that any number of American born colored men desire to leave this country. He said: "We are fixtures here and while we do not object in the light of individual enterprise to al
 low . man to go anywhere he pleases, why is it that these superanuated fossils and men without pulpits go roaming around the country gettlng funds for 'Af- ricA and the Africans 1? It is 8 stupen- dous fraud and an outrage. It is hatred of our racr The colonization society has
 no desire to do good for the African de- BCendant. Our claim tO remain here comes from the blood and sweat which has en- riched the soil. Let any set of men get up an association to sond back the Irlsn,
 the German or the Italian. Don't you think there would be indignaElon meet tugs from all classes of foreigners ?"
 Congressman Smalls of South Carolina said no such outrage as that at Oarrollton COuAO nave OCcuEFeO elsewhere t1&u HI tue south. Nobody was disturbed for that horrible crime. O'Hara, of North Oaro- lina, eolored member; introduced reso- iutiOn in the house of representatives to investigate the massacre, when Jeff Davis's postmaster general, Mir. Reagan, objected and it went over. Subsequently ex-Speak- CT Randall introduced resolution some thing like that of Mir. O'Hara, when 8 con- federate brigsdier objected. On the fol lowing Monday Mir. O'Hara offered his resolution again, when it was referred to the committee on rules. Mir. Randallais on that committee" ..-,..s 'I.r,.I
 Editor Fortune, of the New York Free man, followed. He said "The question now is, has the black man any rights which the white man is bound to respect That question is not going to be settled by the republican, democratic, greenback or labor party. There is not an existing party in the United States but what has ontlived it's usefulness so far as the colored man is concerned. The colored man must look out for himself He must develope more backbone. We have had too much politics. When the war came to g. close the colored people were put on top of the house when they had been living in the cellar. We have got to come down from there gently. If we have not the courage and manhood to face this Caucasian race
 we had better go to Africa or somewhere else. @..-.. 9sF T g.. ,..-.i.f.. oa ...-