The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-01-04

Proclamation and Il Poem We're
Read, the Meeting Endorsing Negro
Semi Centennial and Urging That
Raleigh Be selected as Place for the
Exposition.
The colored people of Raleigh take
no stock in the suggested purpose OF
ex-President Roosevelt In Africa, that
he has gone there to spy out a land
FLOWING with milk and oney' to
which to deport the negro race. This
was evinced yesterday at the Eman-
cipatiOn Day celebration held in the
colOred Masonic Temple i'll Raleigh.
h objection to the suggested plan
of back to Africa for the <groes of
the United States was voiced at the
meeting by Col. James II. HOung, a
leader of his race. He addressed the
meeting at the close of the regular
address and after some remark show
Inc the friendly feeling between the
races in Raleigh said hat it was re
ported that Mr.. Roosevelt was in
Africa for the purpose of securing Il
land to which to deport the Ameri-
can negroes. THAT project is all pop
DyCOck,' said Colonel Young Mr..
Roosevelt or no n else an take US
to Africa. We are at a with the
people here and we are going to stay.
The white man has brought US to
America and he must take care Of US
in this country"
The meeting was a largely attended
one, and it lasted for over three hours.
Yesterday was the forty-seventh an
niVerSary of the Emancipation Proc
lamatiOn of President Lincoln, and it
was fully celebrated here. there being
an address. reading of the prOcla1na-
ton, the reading of IN original poem,
adoption Of resolutions concerning the
day and the progress of the race and
the adoption OF a resolution setting
out tina the semi-centennial exposi-
ton to be held to mark the emancipa-
ton of the race be held in Raleigh.
h meeting was presided over by
DR. +. b. Capehart, president of the
day, who introduced the speakers and
those who offered resolutions con-
corning the day and the events con
nected with it. The general resOlu-
tons of the day We're offered by W.
NJ. Graves, chairman of the committee,
and those concerning the se1ri-cen-
tenEial exposition by G. n. Hunter.
The poem of the day was by Lula M.
Jordan, a teacher in the Washington
graded school, of Raleigh, this having
as its subject "Rcjoicing over Free
DOM
The Resolutions Adopted.
The general resolutions were those
in which good feeling was ernpha-
sized. In it the colored people were
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made by the race in education, in fl
nance, and in morals, advising That
the colored people to stay in the South
and on farms, buy land, pay taxes
ard cultivate friendship with the
white race. In the resolutions thanks
were given the white people for their
friendship, especial stress being laid
on the friendly feeling between the
races which now exists.
The resolutions which pertained to
the negro semi-centennial exposition
to commemorate the Proclamation of
Emancipation set out that it
had been endorsed by the
President Of the United States. who
had recommended it to Congress, and
that as the movement had it's nceD-
ton III North Carolina during the
preparation for the jamestown ENpo-
sition in 1906, that therefore the meet
ing give it hearty support urged the
Senators and Representatives TO sup
port it, and expressed full sympathy
with the purpose to secure the holding
Of the exposition in Raleigh. saying.
THAT in no State of the American
Union ave the white people shown
q more liberal spirit towards the ad-
Hancement Of the negro, and we have
every assurance that favorable action
in this instance will meet a response
such as will he given by no other
State in the Union.'
The Emancipation Proclamation
was read by Claudius Haywood and
after it came the address Of the dav
by Prof. J. II. Branch, Of Raleigh.
After this Col. James IL. Young spoke
in praise of the address, told of the
friendly feeling Of the white people Of
Raleigh towards the coIOred people
and of the harmony between the races
here. a mark Of this good feeling he
said had been shown when, after the
burning of ST. Pauls church such
men as Messrs. JOsephus Daniels, n.
b. ~Rroughton, r. T. Gray, John r.
Pullcn and others had given active
aid and assistance in the movement