Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1896-08-01
THE RAMBLER.
AFRICAN EMIGRATION.
The Land to be Occupied.
THE GREAT ADVOCATE
FOR Us.
An African BiShop-OuT
White Friends.
The Land to be Occupied,

White L r1eDUS.
Ms,v nersons believe that Africa is
.danss vviIderness, having no cities.
There ia no less than twelve ciues
therein whose population consists III
thousands of persons as follows aleA-
andria. Dos 600; Algiers, I4,OOO OalrO'
aes o00. Cane Town, SO coo; Damietta,
$4,000: Fee, 10000; Morocco So wv;
Port said, 1900; Suez. lOOOOi IriPo-
Ii. 10000; Tunis, l25,OOO- OreaC Din
tain, France, Spain, Italy. Herihany' /
and Portugal hold 7,l2O,152 square
miles of the IL ,514500 square miles oil
Africa. Only three million square
miIas of Africa are now European
4 iberia has nnIv 81 900 square miles,
POPULATION of one million, - persO"s
TO a square mile. =, ao:
The Europeans seem to be doing
we'll and becoming rich. why cannot
colored Americans go there ana 90 the
same2 IL white persons not AFRICANS
nv birth, live and prosper IN AFRICA
RamhIer sees nothing to hinder the
coIored Americans from so doing IL
does not cost as much to live there rs
here not near the toll, labor is annu-
allv required there as in America NO
suffering from cold as many OF our
people suffer here.
THE ONLY OBJECTION,
Tue most objection given to colored
Americans going TO Africa and OBTAIN
mo nossessions of the land, come from
many of our professional men, who are
afraid that the migration OF our peo-
Ma would be SO large that they would
ha forcea 90 manual labor. Why not
90 toAfrica and practice professions,
aslwell as hereY
/ am not writing in advocacy OF Afri-
can migration; yet see no goou rea7
son w6v we. the descendants should
unconcernedly see Europeans mpnopo-
lizing the country, and perhaps the
dnv he not far distant when the color
"A Africans will be treated as the In
dams of this country. There are TO
dav black Africans and white Africans,
white men born in Africa as we'll as
black men born in Africa.
LET THEM GO.
Ills certain that in Africa there is
40 such prejudice of color as here.
Rambler's opiOnion is, whoever OF our
people that want to go 60 Africa, let
him do so, throw no obstacle IN MS
waV. This country was not always
as it is, Industry and perseverance,
draining and improving made IL what III
ia. White men established hourshing
colonies in Africa; &c say that colored
men cannot help to establish his lnte-
rlority. OF course a colony should not
be of Tom, Dick and Harry but of
uicked men, moral men, strong men,
active men, men who abhor lazinesss
are not ashamed to dig and if necessa-
nv to beg. Men of no ordinary mould
are required for Africa. men strong
mentally and physically, men resource
fully courageous, consecrated men,
who are distinctly and intellectually
conscious in making Africa what II
ought to be- Such is the view OF a
foreign missionary society, that has
nrosecuting mission work in Africs
for years
ELECTED BISHOP.
This year-one Of our leading denom-
nations elected white man to be I
bishop in Africa. There was coloreC
candidate, but they would not cleo
him, although his competency was &C
knowledged. There are man who pro
fess to be the colored mans friend, ye
thew bend their energies to keep hin
down, if it will be an advancement t
a white man. 1t is passing strang
that as many schools as that denomina
tion has in the South, and the hundred
of dollars it has spent to educate color
ed men, yet not one colored man coul'
he IOuDU 10 Ol6Cb nAlll q OAbhOP W All
ca.
Many.Anglo-Saxo come South, an
addressing a colored audience tel
them that they have made wonderful
progress. the history OF the world show
that no race has made the progress
that the American freedmen has. Tn
colored audience goes wild with JOY q
such laudations, they clap their hands
stamp their feet, wave their fans etc
hon
North, and Join with others IN publls
ing to the world that Nearly two mi
lion colored Baptists in the South,
their poverty and ignorance, with ou
stretched hands still bearing the mari
of slavery's chains, are pleading wit
us to share with us in the blessings
christian education" Many oth'
quotations can be produced of VIII
theV say North and South of the colo
ed people, which shows as black Sa
saws in Uncle Toms Cabin their ia
dues ..S. hang together" They forg
that the colored man is taking bo
seryation, +" if he has to move his ladd
several times.
REFERENCE TO MRS. STOWE.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, thoui
recently departed into the unseen Ian
has left behind her works that {
time cannot oDllJerabe. one pass
her girlhOod and young womanhood
Cincinnati, Ohio, on the border b.
tween the two civilizations II
Abolitionist and the slave advoc at
were in constant strife, and the ella
of the conflict echoed though her dai
life. She was an active worker on t.
underground railroad, constantly 81
ing aid and sympathy to fugitives fro
slavery to Canada. 1t is said of h
that "she could always lay her wri
ing aside, and find time to attend
their needs, and would almost take {
Che last dress she had, to serve as
dis0uise for woman on her has
SouTneV to Canada. She never throw
away any garment of her children e
erything was neatly mended and la
aside for the comfort Of baby pilgrim
freedom."
A stranger once from Canada, in he