Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-24
WILL NOT EMIGRATE.
ColOred Citizens Very Well Satisfied
Where They Are.
BUTLER'S BILL Is DENOUNCED
Sharp Statistical Statements Made By Col
ored Men of Mark.
AMERICAN CITIZENS AGAINST CONGO

Common Council chamber last night pre-
sented an unwonted sight Every Council
manic chair was filed by colored man
from Afric's darkest ebony as shown by
Broadax Smith, who with spectacles on
forehead kept an eye upon the proceedings,
to the young man who, with straight hair
and brunette complexion, leaned back in
a chair at the rear of the room and
wished to make himself seem a spectator
instead of a participant. The subject
of the meetings consideration was the bill
recently introduced by Senator Butler to
appropriate 5000 each to send the negroes of
the United States to the Congo, where they
belonged. This was taken as an open insult
to the race, and from the colored gentleman
who, with spectacles on nose, perused the
ordinances on the desk where he sat, with
the books upside down, to james G. Delphy
and j. M. f. Foster, who made very bright
addresses, all agreed that such 4 scheme of
wholesale expatriation was unworthy OF the
history of a great country.
Ajax Jones, the well-known colored
orator, was placed in the chair and james
c. Delphy made secretary of the meeting,
and the resolutions adopted and the speeches
made might be studied with profit by some
of the city fathers whose chairs were filled
last night by their colored fellow citizens.
One of the points made by JamesC. Delphy
in his speech, was the charge of ingratitude
upon the South as represented by Senator
Butler. He said:
MR.. DELPHY's EFFORT.
"When they were fighting against the
Union the men and women who worked
without paw, worked as the mules did, for
their keep, went down on their knees and
prayed for good old Marsr to return and
worked for his wife and children to keep
them, yes, and misguidedly fought for them,
but the co1ored race cannot be longer con-
trolled by ignorance"
Richard Keys was given the floor and
proceeded to denounce Senators Butler and
Morgan and the Democracy, He referred
to broken promises made TO the negro, his
prosecutions in the South. how he fought
for the Union when Butler and Morgan
were traitors in the Southern Confederacy,
"and now," he added, "theY want US to quit
the country" Mr.. KEYS gave Senator But
Ter many hard names, winding up with call
ing him ''thief'' and saying to put that
down, and If there was any prosecution he
lived at No. AZ Crawford street. He had no
use for Democrats, and related a story to
SuOH NOW Lue OeQOCEdL VI NOEbu GOuAu
change his coat, but not his voice. They
all wanted to send the negro to Congo.
James M. Foster said he was against the
bill that had been introduced because it will
ventilate the question. Referring to the
assertion that the negro was all consump-
tion and no production he quoted statistics
from the census of 1880 to show the COM
parison between the colored population and
the foreign population of this country. In
1880 the foreign population amounted to
6.679, ,943 and the .colored population $780,
1893.
PROPERTY OF NEGROES.
In the State of South Carolina the negro
has produced property since the war OF
SIS, 000, 900 in spite of all his drawbacks,
and in Alabama $40, ,000, 900 in real estate.
There were 28,338 insane foreigners and
6,522 insane negroes, II, ,O23 blind foreigners
and 1885 blind negroes, all supported on
public charity, showing that the negro was
less a charge than white foreigners.
After an address from Broadax. Smith q
Committee on Resolutions was appointed,
consisting of James G. Delphy, G. o.
Mossett, J. NJ. F. Foster. s. T. Lindsay,
Reuben Lewis and James T. Drexton.
They reported the following. which were
adopted:
We, the colored citizens of Allegheny county,
do hereby enter our protest against the
measure proposed by Senator Butler, of South
Carolina, to appropriate S50OO,000 of public
money to export colored American citizens to
the Congo Free State.
We further declare that as an effort is being
made in Mississippi to send memorial to Con-
gIess asking that body to pass an amendment
to the Constitution repeating the fourteenth
and fifteenth amendments. that Congress
should at once proceed to make the necessary
legislative appropriation to enforce the same.
We are strictly in favor Of a thorough system
of public schools, believing that free institu-
tions must have virtue and intelligence as their
foundation, and we declare in favor of Senator
Blair's educational bill and urge upon Congress
the necessity of Its passage
The thanks and congratulations Of this as
sembly are tenderad Senators Hoar and Blair
and others for their able and intelligent oppo-
sition to Senator Buffers emigration bill.