The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-02-26

The Negro Dppes OF che Anericnn Coiosiss-
tioa society Now In New York.

The Negro Dapes OF che American Colosiss-
tioa society Now In New York.
To THE Eprron OF TIE sux-Sr: There ore
in New York to-day $50 Afro Am orleans who
have not got cash enough among them to buy
ferry tickets all round for Hoboken. They
came here from the South expecting to ind
vessel ready to sail. and free passage to the
Republic OF Liberia. on the west coast Of
Africa. They came here upon the representa-.
lions made. in one form or another. by the
American Colonization Society and Its agents.
an institution maintained for the purpose OF
creating discontent among the poorest and
most ignorant class Of Afro-Americans and OF
spreading transformation broadcast about
Liberia. country In which the Colonization
Society has more interest and about which II
knows less than anybody else in tho Unitod
States Interested In It.
There is not one among the $50 Of the do
luded creatures who Is capable OF enduring
for two weoks the severe conditions OF rcsi-
dence in Liberia, oven II the country were such
as the unsettled portions OF our own West
country were. They are not only poor in this
worlds goods. but poor in that ordinary In.
telligenoe and horse sense which subdue the
forests and reclaim the waste places Of a new
Suresu Of H snsiety
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have disposed Of ali tReir pSssossions and
comp to New York; only e tind ihsmseves
that whom they reached this city the CoIoniza.
9s ~ sfat would As shsgs
"Ei | hadn'ter be!isbed dat 1 wouldnter
cum ere" said done ono Of them to mo Yesterday
ton Society have boon going up and down the
southern States all during tic, past six months
people. inlamns tIcir mind. WITH PROMISES 70 .hss
n,ore, ,allurinH thnn those held out to tho
issas ta 81 the way to Gannan They were
slis. General q tho unitod States have died In
hsy 10 %no IL s sS S,rs Mas " s
under fruit tree and open their mouths when
hfnnoay e. Ad rIG hs th s'2E xnvs s Smm
YorR & hS scSS G5 TIE f.
breath to the reporter OF TIE Sun: WV ''
., 1T would cost nt least $4,000 to send al
amount we intend to cali a public meeting for
sSsss Ess. nGx, TGf az W. win
as soon as he is secct.d. in tho p past three
yoars we have Ind publications from nearly
SSG wv negroes Tor characterization to Liberia.
and that only capnblo Of taking forty negroes
on each trip. and making two trips year.
emierntion. do YOU - S''"S W
And. this in the face of tho fact that the bark
only accommodate forty people ut one time.
Although they have 10000 applicants for
sTshbspGrtat,on Sthoqgl they can only send
ton people havo the impudence not only to
sGf tSSy rs not Snr SE
the people to rive them 5000 With which to
e6s Of seaf feF ypss
not responsible for the presence OF these $50 |
people In New York why are they so anxious to |
ST then penp H1t OF tho city at the
The Colonization Society should not have
and sSs out sS The Gntea statss
sss hsS5sss sas$ = s:ssS 4 ;s
where they came from. or to feeding and hous.
pc lust ike sending sheep to the sham6ies
sent to Africa By 6y the c Goonzaton soeiets IN
the past half century have either died Of &C;
climation fever, starved to death DEC or rclapsed
evsry breath Of mir the peopie Breathe. It Is
said that there is only one practising physi-
about in lis saddebass he only decent apot1.
eesEy shop IN the rEeIu u so,,. .,o,,,
aend 81 West Africa Ione enough: It has in:
posed upon the Xullibility OF n class OF we'll |
philanthropists- think this
country plenty good enSash for them: but not
MISUNDERSTANDING enough.
The $50 dupes Of the American Colonization
Society should be sent back to the South or
found for them. They should not he sent to
the west coast OF Africa to die OF fever or to
starve. There Is reason In some crankisms
and in some crankisms thore is no reason.
NEW YORK. Fob "a. 4. THOMAS FORTUNE,
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