Evening star., 1898-12-05
THE PALAlS ROYAL, AE5 G AND nth SITS.

shedding so much blood. when l know and
You all know that much of that blood is
innocent blood; and innocent blood will
speak to God day and night for retribution
till Cod overthrows the nation, as He did
the Roman empire.
And, as | have the ear of the country it
Is very likely L shall call such a convention
within the next three or six months; for
II the negro does not say or do something
in his own defense he is not only an in
ferior race, but he is not fit to be ranked
as human being"
A letter from one who is sincere friend
of the negroes, received here says in part:
The bishops plan is little too large
and dreamy to begin such an experiment
upon. Why should we go across the At
Iantic to try the experiment of a negro
colony? For instance, the tropical Island
of Haiti or San Domingo, near Cuba and
Jamaica, presents all the favorable condi-
tlons that could be found anywhere in the
Niger or Congo countries of Africa BishoD
turner's national convention of negroes
mad better propose to go to Haiti and try
the plan on moderate scale for while,
TO see how 1t works. The money for such
an enterprise would not be hard to get The
ships to carry the colonists thither will be
ready as soon as the blacks are ready to
go. half dozen intelligent leaders would
90 well to go to Haiti first and get the pre-
liminaries arranged and the work started:
after that there would be no lack of phil
anthropic and government assistance for
SaAi MS II tIlIouSl 10 SUCCESS.
What Experience Proves.
"An experience of a third of a century
since the war has shown that the white and
black races in the southern states will
never harmonic. The recent injustices in
fiicted upon the blacks in North Carolina
are but one item in a situation prevailing
all over the South To a certain degree
Bishop Turner is right when he says there
Is no manhood future for his race in these
states 1t would be to the mutual advan-
tage of both whites and blacks If all the
dissatisfied negroes in the cotton states
could be induced to go to some country
where they could live their own life and de-
ve.op in their own way.
The world has not failed to note what a
poor attempt the blacks of Haiti have made
at development during the century of in
dependence which they have enjoyed since
they got rid of the French and Spanish
yokeS But this is the fault of the people
and not of the island There is no better or
more convenient country in the world for
the American negroes to emigrate to than
TINS same rich and luxuriant Island of
Haiti II our discontented southern negroes
cannot improve and progress there, WIN
ninS Tor themselves an increase of wealth
and of comfort, then they cannot do it In
Africa or anywhere on earth.
''One thing Bishop Turner must bear in
mind: His fellow negroes must not be eX-
ported free, or coddIed, or furnished offices
Tor asking. They must not expect land,
oA ioou, VI SiotililtS, VI e.Se With
out working for them or paying in some
other way for them. All negroes who want
to find new homes in a more congenial
place, like Haiti, will have to save money
and stop their follies and idleness and
drinking and gambling. He should empha-
size this part of the program every time
he addresses his fellow negroes on the SUBJ
ject of colonization.
Advantages of Haiti.
Haiti is a perfect paradise of Iuxuriant
vegetation, magnificent scenery and rich
sell. 1t is like beautiful tropical garden
that has been allowed to become a savage
wilderness. Our southern negroes could go
there and at once take a place of perma-
nent superiority over the barbarous degen-
crates who are now there. If they went
with the right ideas and intentions of ic-
dustry they could easily work out for theni-
selves destiny far higher and happier
than they can hope to attain among the
hostile whites in the southern states. Haiti
is a large, rich. neglected, retrograding ISL
and not being more than one-quarter occu
pied 1t has for the last 100 years and is
gradually returning to African barbarism
It is capable OF furnishing homes and home
steads for several millions of additional in