The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-02-02
ANOTHER NEGRO EXODUS.
A ProposItion.to Colonize the Negroes OF
the South in Central and South America
"A Vision of Promised Lands.

PrOpo8ltl0n.to C0lonlZe Tie negroes Oh
the South in Central and South America
"A Vision of Promised Lands.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Jan. 19.-As
movement affecting many States and
hundreds of thousands of people has
been inaugurated in this city and now
assumes definite shape. What the polit..
ical consequences will be no one can tell.
The headquarters of the new movement
are in Topeka, Kan. The. work to be
done will be in the Southern States. s5
Several we'll known colored men Of
means met three years ago to consult as
to the best method Of relieving their !.
people from the conditions that prevail
in the extreme southern. States, especially
in Louisiana, Mississippi and South
Carolina. After carefully studying the
plan of government of the various coun.
tries open to them they arrived at the
conclusion that South America wes the
land that would give them shelter and q
home, while a few of the investigators
we're inclined to look with favor upon,
the Central American States.
These men, all with some wealth and:
some of them counting with six figures,
sent out educated agents, whose reports
are now coming in. The Guianas, Brazil
and the Argentine Confederation were
examined as to climate, lands, laws and
privileges. The same work was done in Z
Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and
Costa Rica. While the agents were out
their principals quietly effected secret.
organization, whose head is in Topeka, {
for the purpose of agitating the matter
by means of trustworthy agents through.5
ont the Southern States. The men thus
organizing represent nearly s2,0OO,00O,
their own money and property, large
portion of which they will devote to this
work.
This new move began to assume:
definite shape, and before the end of I
1888 is reached au exodus from the !
Southern States will have commenced
that will carry off more than million Of
laborers from the cotton, sugar and rice {
fields, where they are now at work, while I
the tobacco, fields will yield their full
quota.
There will be two colonies or Quitting
points established in Honduras and
Costa Rica, but the main efforts of this
new organization will be directed to
moving the colored people to South
America. There will be settlements
established in the Guiana highlands:
directly north of the equator..and in the
Brazilian highlands, on the southern
tributaries of the Amazon, to which will
be- directed those people coming from q
Florida and Southern Alabama, Missis:
sippi and Louisiana. Further south im.9
migration depots will be established in
the Argentine. Confederation for people :
from Kentucky, Tennessee, South Caro-
lima and Northern Alabama, Mississippi
and Texas.
At a meeting held last night reports
we're given by the agent who visited
these countries. 1t was learned that i'm.
portant concessions would be made by
the Brazilian and Argentine governments
in the way of land and immunity from
taxation. Aid in. transportation is !
promised which will place this new
haven within the reach of all who can
secure money enough to carry them
through the first season. Their rights
and privileges as citizens are guaranteed,
and owing to the mixed blood already
existing in some of those countries color
will not debar them from political and
social preferment.
1t was determined last night to continue
the work of organization. Trusty agents
are to be sent into all the sections where
negro labor is SO necessary. It is be-
lieved that by next fall all will be ready
to set the stream in motion, .:and the !
attempt will be made to secure all the re-
liable and trustworthy negroes in the
south, leaving only the worthless, lazy
class, which is not wanted and which
will be carefully weeded out. q q
Early in the summer a committee of.
twenty men will go to South America to Z;
complete the arrangements, secure tke>s
lands and concessions and prepare for I
the work that follows. They are paying
their own expenses, asking no favcrs of
any one, and will aid the others to follow. {
From the reports now received they be-
lieve they will be granted free transpor-
tation from the United States for all I:
worthy colored people who desire TO 80.
1t is the design Of this committee to
settle climatically all who goto their new
homes. Those accustomed to the sugar
and cotton fields will be distributed
throughout the Guianas and BRAZIL.
Those accustomed to mixed farming and
cattle will be provided for further south,
on the highlands and pampas, where
they will be distributed so as to cluster
around common home station or colony
-New York Herald.
$50 you have got wife? 2" said
Jones to newly married man. Don't
know, don't know" replied the man,
with evident hesitation; sometimes T.
think I've got her, and sometimes think
she got me. You see, I've only been
married few months, and I can't tell
just yet how the blamed combinationis
going to turn out"
An Illinois woman committed sui.a
eide by hanging herself to an apple tree.
At the funeral neighbor consoled the
husband by saying that he had met with !
terrible loss. eyes," said the husbandIl
heaving sigh, "she must have kickf
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