Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-03
NEGRO EXODUS.
A Gigantic Scheme OF Emigration OF
COiored People to SoHth
America on Foot.
Person Prominently Connected with the
Movement Thinks There viii be
Big Emigration.

INDIANAPOLIS, IND, Jan. 26.-Colonel
A. A. Jones of the State Auditors Office,
who Is connected with the latest proposed
exodus OF negroes from the southern
states to South America, talks freely
about the scheme. He is an active friend
of all movements for the Improvement Of
the condition Of his race. He was en-
gagged in the first exodus Of 1879. He &C.
companied Governor Chamberlain, togeth-
er with several other young colored men,
TO South Carolina from Massachu-
sets and entered heartily into that
movement. "This exodus" he said,
twill be effectuallY pushed, and by May
We expect to get our first party on the
rosd. There are no headquarters as vet.
The ovement is very young, less than q
month old, so far as active work is con-
cerned. The headquarters will be estab-
lished probably in New York. We shall
have three agents in Cincinnati, one at
st. Louis and one at Chicago. 1 an the
agent at this point. We have some OF
the best people in the country interested,
men who are willing to go down in their
pockets for the relief of their oppressed
brethren. We have some colored people
in this country pretty well fixed and they
are committed to the work. There is no
fixed amount of capital. We hope to &C
compiish by the exodus, first and fore
most, protection. There is no question
Of politics at the bottom, although it will
of course have some political bearing.
years $4,000 black people have been
1yfl cd In fhn NNH hot
political opinions, and nothing has
been done to remedy the matter
1t is life or death Nth US. We are tired
Of having Representatives in Congress
upon voting population that has no
representation. There is no remedy; SO
we propose to pull out. The colored
man has developed and made it what it
is, and while the laborer could not and
cannot do the work that our people 60,
the Southerners will find 8 difference
when they have to use white labor. We
have selected South America for q loca-
ton because of its climate and sdapta-
bility OF the soil to produce such articles
as the colored people are accustomed to
raising. We have investigated the coun-
try and received favorable reports. Our
people do not want to come north and
west because of the climatic conditions
and because the prejudice against the
black race follows them even there.
In South America, as well as in other
parts of the world, the color of the skin
does not bar q msn out Of the race
for the best. We shall start our
emigrants from eastern points. 1
cannot speak sny more definitely
now than TO say that Boston line run
ming to Brazil will carry passengers at
$l4 per head. That certainly is cheap
enough. We have sgents at work in the
south now, and we shall getas many emf
grants as possible out OF Mississippi,
Louisiana and Alsbams, while not ne
glectfng Missouri and Kentucky, and if
there is not big emigration before next
summer then 1 miss my guess"
FOUNDATION OF THE NEW EXODUS.
TOPEKA, KAN, Jan. 26.-The Central
and South American immigration Asso-
citation, which is the foundation of the
new exodus from the southern states,
completed its organization tonight. The
officers are John NJ. Brown, president;
S. W. Vim, secretary, and james P.
Berry, treasurer. The membership ex-
tends throughout all the states. The
officers given are for open work of organl-
cation. The secret work has not yet come
to the surface.