Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-19
BUTLER'S CONGO BILL.
1t VIII be Roasted BY Ajax Jones and Other
Sable OratOrs-A Big IndignafiOn Meet
ing CalIed-A Southern Relief Scheme
for CoIored Men.

1t VIII be Roasted by Ajax Jones and Other
Sable OratOrs-A Big IndignatIOn Meet
ing CnlIed-A Southern Relief Scheme
for COIOred Men.
The colored element of the city is in a
political foment, the principal reason being
that it is not recognized as it thinks it ought
to be. A meeting will be held next Thurs
day in Council chamber which might be
called an indignation meeting, to consider
Senator Buffers bill to expatriate colored
people to the Congo State. Messrs. Ajax
Jones, j. M. F. Foster, James c. DelpIey
and Richard Keyes are the committee to
make the meeting a success, and they are
sanguine of showing that as native
born citizens of the United States they
have O right to be more properly
considered, and their rights more generally
acknowledged than to drive them to Africa.
The indignation meeting will be largely at
tended, as the Don Cameron Club has sent
out to every colored man known to be in the
city postal card calling the meeting. This
meeting is to be rather an important one, as
it will demand Of the local representatives
an expression Of opinion on the question of
expatriating American citizens by an act of
the national Congress.
This will interest white people fully as
much as the coIored population, and the
meeting will be, it is expected, very largely
attended. just at this time when the politi-
cal complications in the city and county are
so mixed as to afford an opportunity for the
colored vote to assert itself, which it seems
determined to do.
A national movement is also on foot
among the colored people under the name of
the Central Bureau of Relief, from which
the following circular has been sent out, in
dorsed by large number of members Of the
A. M. E. Conference, and members of Con-
gress from every State in the Union:
WASHINGTON, D. c., October 81, 1889.
At a meeting of the aboVe-named association,
held on the above date, after full interchange
of views upon the suffering condition of their
race IN the Southern States, and in response to
many letters from that section urging action in
this matter, it was determined to be necessary
to hold national convention for the purpose
OF taking some action to remedy these wrongs
and the obtaining of the exercise of all po-
litical and civil rights and privileges by coored
American citizens as are guaranteed to them
by the Constitution and laws of the United
States.
q Therefore, in pursuance of this action, the
Central Bureau of Relief has issued this call
for national convention, to be composed OF
delegates from the several States and Terrific
ries to be held atW ashington D. c.. the first Mon
day of February, at I'm. 1890 All associations
having for their purpose the objects as above
stated, are invited to representation in said
convention by one delegate from each organi-
zation.
The objects to be obtained by the convention
are: First, to organize national association
of colored American citizens, by which united
and continuous effort shall be made to relieve
them from the personal outrages inflicted upon
them in the Southern States, and to obtain all
the rights of American citizens now denied
them in parts of this country: second, to ascer-
tain the opposing influences that retard the
growth of their educational moral and ma
terial interests; third to invoke Congress to
pass such legislation as will enable the colored
Americans to exercise the right of franchise in
the Southern States without fear of molesta-
ton; to pass the Blair educational bill, and
also pass bill to pay the depositors of the
Freedmen's Bank in full of their deposits.
The basis of representation in this con-
vention will be on the following scale:
Four delegates from each Congressional dis
trict of each State and alternates; four
delegates from each State at large and
alternates; four delegates from each Terri
tory with their alternates, and ten delegates
from the District of Columbia, representing,
as the circular states, a population Of 250,-
900.
The delegates selected to represent the
colored population of Pennsylvania are as
follows: Ajax Jones, james q. Delphy,
Richard Keyes, Broadax Smith, and J. NJ.
T. Foster, and from the delegates who were
seen yesterday a lively time is expected
when the meeting conVenes.