The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-08-13

| and thousands OF coiorcd have offered to
/ invest their money il 1 would take hold of
| IL and manage the whole affair." but u
| nigh functionary in my church, and believing
/ that to my church L owe supreme allegi-
| ance, L could not consistent with my con-
| science leave the pulpit at my age to
! gage in such an experimental enterprise,
however commendable."
| You are in favor OF the negroes emil
/ grating to Africa, L believe? 10 You be-
Ileve 1t is to the interest of the negro to
| leave their white friends here in the south,
with whom they were born and reared and
/ go off on a wild goose chase in search of
a country and "A climate 10 which they are
not adapted? DO you not think your policy
would be cruelty To the colored people?'
| Yes, sir; am an African etniSrationist.
| favor il, because L believe God does and
L believe that all these lynchinys anu strifes
between While and colOrcd is the voice OF
| the Eternal. telling; the negro to get up ana
get, ana that the outrages which YOU
white people charge us with perpetrating
upon your wives ami daughters, telling
you To assist such as are not able t. e
If they desire. This abnormal condition
of things must have a significance, and
white and black would do well to study il,
no. reciprocal prejudice and hate b,:s in
the Light % sociological philosophy. Such
abnormal occurrtnces 90 rot happen lin the
history of nations for naught The power
OF sin and satan is not on the increase in
pessifiiist can MAKE me believe that mat
tiers and things in the aggregate are grow
Ing worse; tney are growing better, and
these lop-sided freaks, when studied and in
terpreted, point TO a remedy. if men viii
So1cr down and search Tor that rem
edy; ana the remedy for the sreat evil about
which 50 much is written and said, is 10
provide some plan Cor the sels-reliant ne
gro 10 Set To the land of his ancestry, and
build up a country ot mis- own, and work
0ut a destiny that S~l have a reformatory
effect upon the lower strata Of his race.
But l 20 rot favor ali the coiored people
leaving th.s country enmasse. There are
/ about U,JeJuoj not ~ condition 10 go any
whore. They need to remain under the die
tum of the white man for the next nun
bred years; but there are three or four
million OF sufficient manhood self-relance
and have sufficient sense and the power of
application 10 buiid up a civilized nation and
inteiiiSentiy manipulate il. and thus secure
respect FOR the negro race from one end of
the world To the other. Beside that was
the purpose of God in permitting the negro
To D. brought to this country: slavery was
simply a manual laboring school, and the
negro IS now in his senior year in the eX-
ercise of his locomotive freedom. and Just
as fast as he graduates and secures the
diploma of seif-reiiance he ought to start
back TO Africa, and this nation ought to
help him To get back. You speak about my
emigrational policy being cruel. / 10 not
see il in that light. Hundreds of thousands
Of white people have gone into Africa and
they are going every day and hour yet, and
they live. and thousands get rich and re-
turn - Europe 10 spend the remainder of
their lives i'm luxury. People live much
longer in Africa than they do in the United
States. and what is called the African fever.
-f,sitr hceU reading Z. n'l Ike to read the iet'
cath. 1 the yuu's: ini.,> very much.
IL, ~ papa j, j preacher. lie PRE- ches at
inc6am very Sunday r.urninas ana night.
A
she two weeks age anG Nou may know her
Ia - makes Us an feel very lonesome
and u the Question a-kcd hy Pearl lvey has no
riar5 aisvt red. will answer H.
s'iA'u Thr dying words al t'eaeral Wolfe were:
nd can any of the cousins icll what Is the st
make. est military stronghold IN the world"
tor
2 the Juua Tcaise, Orlando. ria never had th'
Dusty age to wrl,e a letter - the Young Folks
;iio aaaS s. an! ,ii K %jitf u7u1
ss,,,,, 80 s,,, - s.Io m dn ss2i.Aa gone
there and died in a few weeks, just as nun
| dreds would do if they would go ten miles
| in the country to live from Savannah or
| Charleston; and YOU must remember that
| nearly ali the colored people who have
| gone TO Africa have settled upon the sea-
| coast. amidst sW8mps, lagoons and low
! lands. subject 10 the ebb and flow of the
| ocean. Just as soon as immigrants shall
| begin 10 go back into the interior and set
| tie upon the highlands there viii be a radi-
| cal change in the reports OF the health of
| Africa"
do many Of the colored people desire to
return to Africa, anu What 10 the colored
leaders say about it,"
| Yes. sir; there are about two million
who believe that the future OF the race
depends upon returning to Africa ana build
| ing up a great negro nationality ana estab-
| fishing civilization Of their own, and 1
| believe il would be an improved civilization.
| believe il Tor many reasons. but / VIII only
| itemize one, for instance: Liberia, on the
| west coast OF Africa. is what you would
! denominate negro nation. You know that
| Liberia was established by eX-sl3Ves from
the United States. 1t has a sea frontage
| oI C53 miles and runs back into the interior
| $50 miles II has president, legislature
/ or congress. supreme court and other JUDI
! ciary. and is modelled after the United States
| and here is not barfoom IN the
| republic; not a voice can ne heafd eNeep.
| the minister's on the Sabbath day. beyond
/ i uttl. converse tion. Nearly every house
i has the Liberan flag Haunting on a pole
/ for that purpose ia the Edfu IN lIoIil ~
/ The house, and the sabbath is observed 50
| punctiliously that IL Is sai0 that ChlCneii
/ ROSTERS will not crow TIL tneY steal Oh %
! some private place. / was TeproNeu by Zen
/ eral Robert 4. Sherman, who was porn IN
| Savannah, Ga. in 1887, and went 10 A.ipeiih
4 in lS., Tor laughing too loud on ms front
| piazza on the Sabbath day, bishop as
/ Wa Why the I.iberians hang out the
i national flag ia front OF nearly every house
/ on the Sabbath day, ! did not learn, ana
/ was ashamed to ask. For if you show your
SELF too simple they will look at one an
other and twitch their eyes and hash
/ smile"
what relation DO you sustain to Liberia
! in this country
/ Il am the consular representative OF the
/ Ifhelian government to the United states
| government and mr. territory extends from
/ baltimore to the lilo Graude, but HlE dlpio-
/ matte RESPONSIBILITIES have not amounted 70
/ very much up TO the present; therefore.
/ have not hung out the Liosrian Tag IN ifoht
| 81 my residence as my position DEMANDS.
| When l get "A little more business TO trans
/ act and become IA factor of more reSpe lsl-
! hility. / will lift the flag of the nation
| an. representing. as tire United States nag
/ aan..s in front of eur consul SeneraIs Office
| il Liberia every day
| would the colUred people Of this coun-
/ trv receive a welcome IN Africa ana es-
! pecIalsy in LIB ria"
| 20 yes; they would be cordially welcome 1
anywhere in Africa they might choose To %.
i The Christian negro. and especially tho
| VINO are skilled laborers, are wanted every
/ where. as well ~ professional men, sAch
1 rs doctors. LAWYERS ministers Of the gos