New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-12-07
FOR NEGRO EMIGRATION.
BISHOP TURNER, OF THE AFRICAN NJ. E.
CHURCH. URGES RETURN OF HIS
RACE TO NATIVE LAND

ES.sh.neton. Dec. (Special). Bishop Henry M
Turner Of Georgia, has no idea of abandoning
his efforts TO COLOMBO the negro in Africa 1t IS
understood that he has hopes OF having the pres
ent session of Congress take some action The
| bishop says he becomes more thoroughly con
WINGED every day OF his life that Africa is the
God-intended home Of the negro and that it is
| the duty OF Congress to assist in sending them
there He takes no stock in the effort the part
of some persons TO pension the ex-slaves, or to
furnish relief in any other way other than for
Congress TO sum sufficient TO carry oCI
the plans Of sending all the negroes TO Africa the
richest country earth he says. Bishop Turner
is the recognized head of this movement, and has
labored jealousy for many years He says that
it is only question Of determination or
emigration for the negro He says:
have been roundIy abused by both the white
and the colored races, but | have not departed
one iota from my beliefs and purposes regarding
African emigration We have done nothing IN TINS
manner, and have kept no one in the dark
aim to give the widest publicity possible 10 our
mission and our work I DO not think the there can
race lies in Africa, the natural home OF the
Sooner he goes there the better for him This
movement is far reaching and Will change the
down to determination emigration for the
question coIsl9eraiion VIII Teailze !Lat' ny -
It this way? Simply from the tact that sta1stlcs
Tea5inp Tere I AZ liberty 10 give them out but
this l cannot do this time. The negro race
is not growing healthier. weather. wiser, any
II is untrue when opposers of this movement Of
ad Ameby m 2 a ne g 90 hs and WIS
dom made Africa for the negro and the negro for
| the sun shines Africa is the negro's natural
home. and there, is where he should be That
country proffers the greatest possibilities on earth
for the negro emigrate that is. if he has any
aa of 0slg v Even S naGTe i INVOKING
the negrs to return to his e God f Eyen ono home tr as
hundred miles out at sea, from the west coast of
| and are now flaming the shores. Inoderating the
| equatorial climate, diminishing the heat and hu-
and malaria. I believe this is the work Of God
| who are suffering in this COZ ntry and who must
return or later. If had five million dollars
would that every negro who wished TO go to
| Now some of my people want to know why ]
| don't go to, Africa and stay there l believe !
| fifty or hundred thousand negroes to 60 with
| lieye IT the best days work ! ever accomplished.
The white race and the negro get along nicely
more than hewers of wood and drawers ,I of water
supreme in America. John Temple Graves. of my
| State, man for whom | have the highest regard
never be allowed to control n this country even even
baf tbe re nr.e Of the negro peane was his sub
ordination, and that never would the negro De
laws enacted in Southern States show that de
true. how the negro ever hope in this country
to attain the full stature of citizen or man?
L IL
| assert that the prejudices of the whites
eternal as the hills. Intelligent negroes know that
! these truths not uttered from personal preJu-
dices. for Mr.. Graves and others have pleaded the
| Alabama, say? He says that the negro will never
receive social recognition here and that the negro
/ had better be slave than free man without
social recognition If he expects to remain In this
country. Well. this is truly encouraging TO the
!
| The African emigration movement has not met
| with the approval of majority Of the A
| lot Of ignorant negroes have opposed II from its
very inception. They pirate about the sickness of
| Africa and many other things of which they
| in dense ignorance The thoughtful and intelligent
| of the white indorSe the emigration move
nlent and il will yet prove and of untold
| blessings the It will be remembered
| that not more than one-third OF the children of
| thirds exterminated This will be the final
| outcome OF the American negro If he remains here
| There is chance, too, the negro being re
| enslaved If he prefers to stay here Some people
| comes from a disordered brain. That kind of
| prating does not annoy me in the least. ] am too
| much in earnest in this work to give any worry
| such stuff ] have been called unciviiZed and
| work I'm these efforts better the condition Of
| my people. The negro never hope to attain
| respectable recognition here, and think he should
| go where he can. Here he Is only slave and a
ever hope TO be In this land AS have said befor
| Africa is of the very richest countries on
| earth. and with line OF steamers. owned and con-
trolled by negroes. plying between that great
| Try and the United States; the negro would soon
| grow rich and prosperous by selling to the whites
OF this country minerals, precious gems, ivory
and thousand other things which found IN
abundance In that rich land and which would fetch
| good prices here
When the grand climax is reached in this matter