The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1895-03-20
STAY IN GEORGIA.
~FGROEs WHO EMIGRATED TO
MEXICO ARE HAVING A
HARD TIME.
corn Meal or Bacon Down There--Span.
i.b Cow Boys Armed and on Horse
back Guard Them.

back Guard Them.
San Ant mic, Texas, special slys:
upec Leg" Williams, the negro colonizer
,ois we'll known throughout the south
w. sto+es, arrived here today from the
s,ncb near Mapimi, Mexico, upon which
.ho 700 negro families from Alabama and
caorcia W ere receAtly colonized. He is
thorongbIy disguised with the scheme of
.aIorizing negro families in Mexico,
I'D the disclosures concerning the
sondition of the negroes who have been
aiken there by him and w. FL. Ellis, of
San Antonio.
IN a circular issued today, headed
as+atement of Facts, Regarding the
Movement of Negroes to Mexico" "Peg
LEG" Williams says:
9Tbis is to certify that the induce
monrs offered by w. II. Ellis, who claims
10 represent the Mexican Colonization
comnapv. are far from being carried out,
although some of his statements regard
mo the land and raising of cotton and
o,rn are true. He was to have houses
ready sixty days from January 18th for
eocb family, and they were to have house
,oom ready for the entire colony on
arrival of the people, which was not the
case, After travelling for four days and
NIGHTS. cramped up in cars, they were
driven in wagons from Mapimi station
tUenty-four miles from the railroad.
They had nothing to eat all day, and it
was very cold for that country. On arri-
val there they were forced to camp out
around their wagons with the women
and children, thereby catching colds
during the night. Up TO the time l left
thew we're still out with their wagons,
but they were cleaning up an adobe
house. which was connected with the
cotton Gin shed, place about twenty
. feet wide and sixty feet deep, in which
4 TO nut thirty-four families and 1876 souls
until the special adobe houses could
& be built They were also compelled to
Il be under the management of Spaniard
who has never had any experience in
q handling colored people and can speak
81 very little English.
GUARDED BY ARMED MEN.
"They were also guarded by Mexicans
whoride Mexican horses and who are
regular guards, armed with six shooters
and Winchesters attached to their sad
dies and are paid S12 so per month to
guard the premises and to look after the
labor on said place.
these people know nothing about
colored peoples ways or habits, and it
will, therefore, be very hard to have any
mutual agreement or to harmOnizse any
class of labor under such conditions,
either to the success of the labor or to
the enterprise. Each man was to have
bis contract and know what h railroad
fare was to be and his travelling expen-
I SeS' This was not done, and you will
therefore see that they were left in the
dark, not knowing what they are getting
OrWhat their expenses will be in a dis,
tant land, 528 miles from the line of the
United States and through desert
country, where there are stations at dis
tanceS OF only every fifty or sixty miles
from Eagle Pass to Torreon. l think
they had arranged before | left there to
suppress any letters that might be writ
Ten back to their people here unless they
were written to suit them, until they can
4aKe few more shipments.
vi course you can work your letters
through on the quiet by parties who
might be passing and get them to mail
them
There is no corn meal and no bacon
neat, and the colored man will have to
'e On such Stops as the MexicanS use in
Ia' country. They charge double price
vi Tue rations. | know the nature of
'u7 coIored people and what farming is,
@uu make this statement on account of
vVng implicated i'll making the first
u'Pneht of colored people to Mexico,
Duu On account of erroneous statements
1laue to me by W. H. Ellis and friends
LIS who corrohorated what he said. l
'Ouo mat they were all interested in
NC Scheme of getting the handsome COM
''00Ioh OF S. or So per head on every one
-. lie induced to locate on this ranch.
am responsible for this statement,
u Is after about fifteen days investi-
md SV Ill gong to Mapimi and to the ranch
-uo ne .lrn, mo- and snn;ros nnd l-..oS..i :, er