The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-31
FROM BISHOP TURNER.
The Well known Georgia Negro De-
fcmds His DeportntiOn scheme.


tends His Deportation scheme.
To the Editor of The Post.
| Atlanta, Ga, August 26---In your issue
of the 18th instant l notice the follow
| ing:
THE plan OF Bishop Turner is utterly
mpracticab1e and there is not the leas.
| probability of its ever being trlel. TO
pick up 100000 on one continent and set
them down for permanent residence on an
4 other continent, thousands of miles away,
is 'Utopian dream, etc.
| OF course you are referring to my negro
African emigration plan, which is the
| only solution, to what is known rs The
negro problem, that mortal can think of
! outside of REINSTATEMENT or eXternina-
! ton, which will surely come II thilgs C r
tinue as they are. God may devise and
formulate some other plan, but not man.
And | very much believe that the Lord
! Himself would have to accompany any
other by miraculous interpretations, as He
did in the case of the lsraeltes, to execute
the plan peacefully and harmonic lsly
Now you speak OF the removal of 1.0Ga0Uo
colored people to Africa rs A 'Utopian
dream and wholly impracticable / ct us
see
Suppose the United Sta.es congress
would set apart S105. 100000 for African
emigration. At SIS each. the entire GEO.
II
Africa as cheaply as over e,O00.C0o white
Immigrants have been brought to this
country within the last thirty years. 1t
is only $50 miles less from New York 10
Liverpool. England, than from Charles
ton, $. G., or Savannah. Ga, to Ia. re-
public OF Liberia, Africa. And If wiito
immigrants can come here By the mil
lions at an average of S12 can, Why
could not the negro return to Africa at
an average of $50 each when a decent snip
would run the extra 200 miles almost l., n
night. Moreover, IL the United States can
throw away 5000, 100000 foollng with tire
Spanish islands in one year and six
months merely for the purpose CT pur-
chasing the contempt of the sobc~ think
ing world, would il not bc infinitely VIE
and better to let us have Slo0 Cc0,00U to
repair to ourselves and cease to be dis
turbing element among you whlts porple
and get the brutalized portion IF cur
young men out OF the rea; "a of white la
dies, so they could no longer nave an OF
portunity of assaulting them and at me
same time build up great county. START
hundreds OF ships to runni lg, Just as isu
rope has 53S steamers plying between hel
shores and Africa, and pay back to u @
United States, in fifty years or Tess time,
the $1,000 900 that migat ne appropriated
by tariff and otherwise? l fail 70 see the
"Utopian dream" out ] DO see one or
the most intelligent. wise humanitarian,
righteous, common sense and 2usi's 50
schemes that a nation ever projected
do see better spirit prevailing. re-
vival of Christianity noce content ne1t,
better health, longer lives. IN increase u
business and, in short grander white
people and nobler set of coloroi people.
do see an end OF lynching mobs on the
one hand and the brutal .ap's. ON the
other, which is making this country
hiss and by-word and t disgrace to CIV
ilization. do see superior children hoi II,
a better generation governing the coin
try. and men and women by the million
giving practicalization to the theory tnat
every man is a king and every woman Is
a queen within the domria of the Nation.
And Just as 7,000.D00 OF whites have
come to this country within the .ast tnr-
ty-five years, 100000 OF VI could aai
would gradually leave and go 20 our
selves In the next thirty or thirty Ave
years, to the exception OF that seu!lionizel
portion OF our race, who do not believe
they were born to be anv.1ing beyond
human animal. This is The way that t
appears to me and about 100000 Of Others
In this country who think and see upon ;sie
same line
You say the plan or experiment Will
never be tried; possibly not, ont woe be
to our future as a people, as natipn. as
a civilization, as a large portion o. CHRIS
tendon. and woe be to the negro espe-
cially II 1t Is not tried We are SANDING
upon a volcano today and dreadful iup-
ture is liable to take place at any moment.
and while you white people my declma O
the blacks or exterminate them the Ire q
the God OF nations will tear this country
into fragments as II did the Roman en-
pire. and its grandeur. majesty ami Lower
will be thing OF the past, and future
generations will only learn OF the goat
United States as they read VI its dcwn-
fall and absolute overthrow in the pag.
OF history. Respectfully
VI. NJ. Turne-.