San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-06-20
BOUND TO LEAVE TEXAS.
What Some Intelligent CoIoreo
Men Propose Doing.

The forcible election Oh the coIoreo
citizens of certain counties in Texas is
meeting with its just reward. Ihe
necessity for a democratic majority
in Grains district, for which the
democrat officials from Victoria so
loudly clamored, was made the occa-
sion of a hue and cry against the col
ored people in the district which Is
| likely to have far reaching conse-
ouences. The democratic split in
| Fort Bend comfy is the cause OF this
trouble primarily. The repu blicans
are i'm majority of four to one IN that
county and they have divided the
offices with the reconstructed wing
of the democracy. This has not
been acceptable to those bour--
bons who want the earth, ana
last summer they demanded
conference with the republicans about
the offices. The conference YVES held.
The colored republicans signified
their willingness to divide, as usual,
and all outside was serene. The
bourbon democracy seeing no hope of
lettering their condition determined
to raise race cry. This fact was
communicated to the colored leaders,
and as a consequence every colored
man was warned to keep away from
town, no matter what happened, and
to quietly pursue his work upon his
farm. The republicans had also
determined to put no ticket i'll the
field and to give no occasion to any
bourbon to make trouble. Pend
ing the outcome of the matter
Frost was shot and the cry Of
race war raised. Politics had no
thing whatever to do with, it as no
republican nominations had been
made. But it was necessary to fire
the popular heart and the cry of a
race war was raised and every white
man in the country was ordered to
Richmond. The colored man kept at
work on his farm, and when the
white bourbon came to look for an |
armed mob he found every man of
them quietly at work. The election
came Oft. The colored man voted for
the moderate democrat and the bour-
bon was left out in the cold. They
saw their mistake and affirmed that
their only salvation was in race
war. They should have killed a
score or two of prominent colOred
men they said. The bitterness be-
tween the two factions of the
democratic party continues and
intensifies. Like the cloth be-
tween the shear-blades the
colored people are bound to suffer,
Their leaders have canvassed the sit
uation and decided to leave. Four
months ago correspondence was
opened with Mexican land owners
with view to colonizing in Mexico,
and that correspondence has led to
the visit of Henry G. Ferguson, of
Fort Bend county, and w. H. Ellis, of
this city, to the City OF Mexico, as
stated in a morning paper,
Mr.. Ferguson is prominent cotton
planter of Fort Bend county. Chair
man of the republican county COM
mittee. He owned six months ago
some 5000 acres of land IN that county
and his income was nearly
$4,000 a year. In a conversation
with the LIGHT this morning
he said that his property had depre-
ciated more than 100 FER cent. owing
TO the troubles. He had sold several
hundred acres, at half its value, and
would dispose of every acre at those
figures if he could. He said that the
intelligent colored
men of his section had determined to
leave. That they could not fight all
Texas and did not propose to stay
where democratic feuds were made
the occasion of colOred peoples MUIR
der. He says 1T is the intention to re-
move all the good and industrious
cOlored people from every county in
to exercise their political rights. The
worthless trash will be left behind.
In BeXar and all other counties where
the colOred man is not molested, no
circulars will be issued, no cOlOnists
taken, but in Fort Bend, Wharton,
Brazoria, Bastrop, Matagorda and
Washington counties, every colored
man will leave who is worth remov-
ing, and the whites can keep the
country.
Mr.. Ellis, who is well known in
this city as a wool, hide and cotton |
buyer, and one of the very few of his |
color found in that business, has joined |
Mr.. Ferguson in his colonization effort. |
1t is a private enterprise, concerning
the results of which all is as yet I'M
certain. They intend to provide a
home for the thrifty people of their
race in Mexico, who are prevented the
exercise of their political rights in
this country. A few counties in Tex
as and some in Mississippi and Lou
isiana will be depopulated of cOlored
citizens.
The colonization society which
Messrs. Ferguson aud Ellis are agents
will buy Mexican lands, build houses
and finnish means for the c0lnnists