The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-30
SOUTH AMERICAN COLONIES.
The Negroes in the South Enthusiast
tic over the Scheme.

tic over the Scheme.
From, the Ne,o York Times.
TOPEKA. KAN, Jan. 27.-The movement
for the colonization of colored people IN
South America is attracting attention all
over the country, particularly in the States
of Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, South
Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee, from
which the most Of the colonists will be
drawn. The movement has been in progress
for three years, but conducted secretly, and
the facts ha' only been given to the
public within the past few days, while
the organ ization has been assuming
| shape. A charter has been obtalnd
from the Secretary of the State Of Kansas
under the corporate title Of The South and
Central American Immigration League OF
the United States of America" Those
identified with the league are prominent
and wealthy colored men OF Kansas, and a
number Of leading colored men OF the
Southern States whose names have not yet
been made public on account of the embar-
rassment and intimidation to which they
would be subjected in the South. Among
the Topeka representatives in the scheme
are John NJ. own. of the State Auditors
office, and formerly Sheriff in Mississippi,
from which state he was driven for pollt-
ical reasons; S. w. VIM, of the banking
house Of John d. Knox 81 Co. the Rev. b.
+. Watson, pastor of one of the colored
churches in this CITY; William Harris,
William Anderson, S. G. Watkins, j. 2.
Berry, Philip Pickett, William Freeman
and others well known.
The capital stock of the association is
placed at 81, 000, 900, Of which $4,000 has
already been put up or pledged TO the cause.
Mr. Freeman rentiOned above, Is worth
1000, and others named are well-to-do,
and all say they will expend every dollar OF
%l,S,,,- Of
the company met here tonight and elected
the following officers: President, John NJ.
Brown: Secretary, S. W. VIM; Treasurer,
James P. Berry. There are $4,000 colored
people in Kansas. about 900 OF whom re-
side in Topeka. They are all enthusiasticin
the new movement ana while it is not in
tended directly to embrace the colOred pop
ulatiOn North. great many COlored men
announce determination to JON the march.
Letters are being received by every mail
from all parts Of the South making inquiry
i'll regard to the proposed exodus and from
various localities in the North, showing that
these people have laid their plans well, and
propose to carry out their purpose of bring
ing the cOlored man out of the South and
causing the abandonment of many plan
tatlon.
The general object is to settle portions of
the Argentine Republic and other States in
Central and South America, where land
concessions and political privileges have
been made and guaranteed TO colonists. The
concessions have been made and the privil-
eyes guaranteed over the official signatures
of the authorities of the Argentine confed
GRAFTON, and the Fl st colony sent out will be
dispatched to that country, and assn ances
have been given that the cost of the trans
portatiOn of the emigrautS will be advanced
by the Argentine government. Other coun-
tries have been sought to make like conces-
Sions, and Costa Rica, Guatemala and the
government of French Guiana are favora-
bic to the advent of such colonization and
have so signified. These are the authentic
| reports from agents whom the association
had abroad The association has had agents
in the Southern States fomenting the
scheme, and it is enthusiastically received
| among the oppressed colored people of that
section of country.
Advces are at hand from Mississippi
that much enthusiasm exists tn re and that
the colOred people are eager for the change.
| The first efforts will be directed against
| Mississippi, Louisiana and South Carolina,
| representatives from these States being eS-
| pecially urgent in behalf Of their fellow
| citizens The expression of to-night'i meet
| ing was that the cOlOred race desired to
| leave a land where the oppreSSor is III 20
Sition TO rule and make half slavery worse
| than the peonage of Mexico They state
| that the professions and trades are closed to
| them in the South and the only avenue
open to them is labor of the most degrading
sort They urge that in the Argentine Re-
! public the man is recognized for what there
is in him. President Brown said tonight
| that according to his Information if ship
could be obtained he could find 800 COO col
| ored people i'll the Southern States ready
| and anxious to embark for a new home
| The directors have arranged to send agents
| into the South to work up the movement,
advising that the emigration be commenced
at an early day.
1t is though that arrangements will be
perfected to dispatch the first colony of L.,
900 to the Argentine States by Sept. l.