Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1892-10-04

Mcpherson referred him to Senator QUAY.
who Immediately Endorsed the colonization
scheme, and referred it, with his approval,
to his henchmen. Clnrkson and Dudley.
Lindsey was thoroughly familiar with the
methods that would carry his plan
through successfully. His record as a
colonizer is one to be proud OF. When
he undertook this special mission he was
Secretary of the Southern Emigration
Company. He was candidate for Con-
gress on the Republican ticket from the
First District Of North Carolina in 1870,
but was defeated. In 1882 he got himself
into serious trouble and was accused of
taking 200 department. clerks from Wash
ington to North Carolina TO serve as depu-
ty marshals. This he did under the direc-
tion of J.J. Mott, chairman of the State
Executive COMMITTEES of North Carolina. In
1887 he took Ill negroes to East Orange,
N. j., at the time of a local labor trouble,
and was driven out of town with stones
and brickbats. The same year he took q
number TO Maryland and located them as
For one of his deputies In the work he
had undertaken, Lindsey selected j. B.
Whitehead, North Oarolinian. whose ex-
perience as a colonizer was quite as thor
ough as his own. Several years ago White
head carried so many negroes from North
Carolina that he depleted the labor market
and committee of seventeen citizens of
to leave on penalty of lynching.
WAKING Up TIE SCHEME.
In q letter addressed to Whitehead un-
der date of March 90, 1890, Lindsey gives a
complete account of the development of his
plan up to that time. He says:
WAsHIEGToN, D.. c., Mar. 20, 1880.
j. b. Whitehead, Esq:
DEAR SIR: Yours of the 18th inst. has
been received and the contents carefully
noted, and must be permitted TO say that
1t really appears to me you are hard to-
satisfy about our emigration project.
1t is true, as. you say, / wrote you as long
ago as last June that 1 expected to com
mence active operations within thirty days
and had cause for so writing. And it is
also true that wrote you later that Sena-
tor Quay, Chairman of the National Re-
publican Committees, had promised me to
furnish The funds for US TO operate with,
and that Hon. j. N. Huston, Chairman of
the Republican State Committee of Indiana.
felt great interest in the work and would
cooperate With us, and also that other
prominent Republicans had become inter-
ested in 1t. L say all'this is true, and yet
you seem to question what say about it,
aud, .as you seem to be so inCreduIous,
will give you detailed account Of just
how the matter stands.
On or about the .22d OF last Nav, I met
Hon. Edward Mcpherson, of Pennsylva-
mia, here. and had an interview with him
In regard to onr work, and at his sugges-
ton l wrote to Senator Quay at Beaver,
Pa. said to Senator Quay That the coll
ored people of North Carolina had become
RESTLESS under their oppression and perse-
Cution and that thousands were leaving the
State and going to Mississippi, Arkansas,
Louisiana and Texas; that ] had been en-
deavoring 70 find homes and employment
for them in Northern and Northwestern
States; that this tide of emigration could
be easily diverted from the Southwest aud
turned to, the doubtful States of the North
and West. L Enclosed him copies of letters
from many of my North Carolina Repubi-
can friends as to my integrity, &c, among
them letters from Col. o. H. Doekery, John
Nichols, j. NJ. Brown, Judge Thos. Settle.
and others, and told him with necessary
financial aid / could take eight To ten thou
sand to Indiana, three or four thousand to
West Virginia, and two or three thousand
TO Connecticut of the best laborers and
safest voters in the world in time to become
legalsvoters in 1892. which would place the
result in those States beyond doubt In the
next Presidential election, &c, SC.
On the 9th of June received letter
from him dated Beaver, Pa, May 81 (l sup
pose the letter had been delayed iu transit
by the JohnstoWn f1ood), in which he said:
~ have your letter, which impreSSes me
favorably, and will, at the first oppor-
tunity, submit your proposition to our COM
mittee. Col. Dudley and ce-ChEirmau
Clarkson are near you. Have the kindness
to communicate with them in relation TO
detailS.n
aSu b06 0aQ
interview with him at ChamberIin'S Hotel,
in this city. He approved of our work
asked me how much it would take to start
1t, and promised to furnish the necessary
amount. He said that the committee was
then out of funds, but that L should have
1T in thirty days.
u On the 10Th day, of July L saw him at the
A rlington Hotel, here. Hewas in great
hurry with numbers of people trying TO see
him He said that the Committee had
failed to get the necessary funds in hand,
but that should have it soon. at our in
terview at Chamberliu,s, on June II, he re-
quested me to write to Governor NJ. G.
Buckley, of Connecticut, and General
Erastus Day, Chairman Republican Com
mltLee Of Connecticut in regard to the
matter, which / did.
On the 10Th of August [ wrote him,
calling his attention to what he had
and said to him il it WAS not conve-
nient 70 furnish the entire amount
promised. to furnish me with enough to
arrange the preliminary work. He at once
enclosed my letter TO Gen. Clarkson, with
an Endorsement requesting the money to be
furnished ma, and on the 18th OF August
wrote me, saying: II have your letter of
the 10th, and have forwarded it through
Mr.. Garrison, with such an Endorsement as
you suggest"
Gen. Clarkson saw Col Dudley and Dud-
ley said he had no funds in hand belonging
to the Committee; that he had furnished
SlOo Oh us own IunuS IOF the committee,
and that would have TO wait awhile.
did not like this, and so wrote Senator
Quay, and in reply to my letter he wrote
me, August 30, saying: ''1n reply to my
request that he should give you
81, 900 to commence your work, Gen. Dud-
ley informs me that the treasury OF the
National Committee is empty; that no has
been compelled to advance $16S from his
private funds to meet oyerdrafts am
perfectly willing to give my time to the
cause, but cannot afford to pay the ex
penses of the Committee.
l then thought would let the matter
rest till they could replenish the treasury,
but on the Sth of September received a
letter from Quay, saying: "WiIl you have
the kindness on receipt of this to place
yourself in communication with Mr.. Will
liam D. Muilin, of Stephenson, Mullin s.
Co. Bramwell, W. Va, where it is probA-
BILE that 200 families of your North Caro-
lima emiErants win be received and en-
ployed, etc. Please act promptly. etc. 1
expect to be in Washington within TWO
weeks and will then see your
Soon after Congress convened saw him
at his committee room. He asked me hev
I was getting along with my work. told