Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-11-14
HOMES FOR NEGROES.
SHALL THE GENERAL GOVERNMENT
AID THEM TO GO OWESTl
A Richmond Pastor saws "So"; That II
VIII be Useless, as the Darkies Don't
Want 10 Leave Here.

II Is said the negroes have started q
movement in Richmond whereby they
hope 10 encourage tho emigration of many
of their race from Virginia to the western
States.
Yesterday q Dispdtch representative asked
Rev. ]. II. Holmes pastor Of The First Bap-
tist church (colored). if he knew OF any
organization here working tor this pur-
pose.
WHAT THY ARE TRYING TO DO.
The preacher said he did not know that
any organization had been perfected TO zen, en-
courage the negroes to emlgTate. Inc
colored people in convention in In
dianapolis some time ago passed
resolution 10 request the President
of the United States to recommend to
Congress the appropriation OF c1O,0OO'VOO
10 buv I'D lands in the West and give
homes TO the cOlored people. A commit
tee was appointed from that meeting to
wait on the President and present the
resolution, and it has been done.
WHY OBJECT TO AFRICA?
There has been misunderstanding"
continued the minister, "amOng the color
ed people here of the nature of the peti-
ton. Some of my folks nave thought u
was recommended that land be purchased
in Africa for us to settle, and .
Great deal of opposition was expressed
towards such a move. To correct this erro-
neous idea one of the committee who went
to see the President has lately visited Rich
mond and explained to the cOlOred people
that il is proposed TO ask help from Con-
gress to settle them in western States"
DON'T WANT TO LEAVE VIRGINIA.
do YOU think the negroes favor the
idea OF emigration 2" asked the reporter.
No. | do not. Some few radical leaders
among my race may be in favor OF moving
away, but the colOred people or virginia
will never be satisfied anywhere but here.
If they 90 out West they will come back
here III less than three months"
VIRGINIA WHITE FOLKS.
"Whv do you think they will not be
satisfied in the West!"
because they will not find white people
as Good to them. The cOlOTed folks have
improved wonderfully since the war, ana
now they have their schools and churches
here which the white race have given them,
and they will get no such help from the
white people in the West or North"
WHO ARE THEIR FETENDsf
"Then YOU think the white people of the
South are better 10 the cOlored folks than
the whites of the North!"
"Decidedly so. All that my race have
they have gotten from the white people OK
the South. The northern people have given
| us very little besides advice"
"Why. then. do the colored people vote
almost solidly with northern hepubll-
cans ?" >.
ut il because Of the leadership Of radi-
cal men of my race, urged on by partisan
leaders of the North. The best element OF
! the Republican party at the North DO no..
| try to prejudice one race against the other.
NOT POLITICIAN.
"Don't you sometimes take a hand in
II do not" replied the parson; land
never will. My name was signed TO a CIR
cular purporting 10 be from c0lored minis
ters advising our church-members to work
| for Malone This was one OF the most
| baretaced fOrgcres ever perprctrated, ana
| think know who put my name 10 that
| paper" -,.t.
"Did politics come up in your church
meeting at any time during the late cam
| Iaign?"
mo such thing was mentioned, but
several times learned that clubs and eau
cuses had set on foot l. move 10 carry poli-
! tics into our religious meetings. All such
/ things will certainly leak out, and each
/ time some member of the clubs or eau
cuses would come and tell me Of what
would be done, and | always managed "a
/ get ahead of the politicians and keep the
/ church pure.n