The north Mississippi herald. (Water Valley, Yalobusha Co., Miss.) 1888-1929, 1922-02-03
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WOULD ESTABLISH
COUNTRY FOR NEGRO
Senator Memorializes Con.
gress on Race Question; Of
fers Solution

Senator I. G. McCallum of Jones,
introduced a resolution into the Sem
ate yesterday memorializing the
Congress of the United Safes to
acquire from the Allied nations suf-
ticient territory for the founding of
a national home for the American
negro. The resolution was referred
to the committee of Federal Rela-
tons. 1t reads as follows:
Whereas, Race dominion Is as old
as history and tradition; and,
Whereas, The question of race re-
lationship has vexed the world since
the bondage of the Israelites in Egg
ypt, requiring the interpos.tion Of God
Himself; and,
Whereas, All wars that have curs-
ed the world since the beginning of
time have had their roots directly or
indirectly enmeshed in this relashion-
ship; and,
Whereas, AS time has progressed
and man bas become more enlightened
the acuteness of this relationship has
become more manifest; and,
Wheras, The great World war was
was the ripened fruit of this same
tree of strife, having its most mani
fest beginning in the partition of Po-
land by the Holy alliance followed
by the rape of neighboring nations
and the conquest Of foreign peoples,
including the lost provinces of France
and eliminating with the dismember-
ment of Servia by Austria Hungary
with the approval Of Germany; and,
Whereas, This great conflict has
quickened throughout the world the
spirit of race consciousness, as never
before known; and,
Whereas, As result of this awak-
ening spirit, Ireland has gained her
age-old struggle for freedom, Egypt,
India and Persia are in varying con-
ditions of continuous revolution, the
Turks and Greeks are locked in q
death-grip, and no nation of the world
is so backward as to be free from its
quickening influences, even the most
benighted tribes in darknest Afraa
are restrie under the spell of its mag
ical influence; and,
Whereas, In that great conflict
America, by reason of her detached
position and by her measures sup
plies of men, money and materials,
and by reason of her high and noble
purposes because the spiritual voice
of the world and in that crucial hour,
as if God directed, proclaimed in
trumpet tones that echoed around the
world the heaven-born doctrine Of
"the self-determination Of nations"
and as a result of this doctrine the
spirit of race consciousness has not
only been qu;ckened in the hearts OF
men everywhere but our own ever
present race question has assumed an
ominous potentious aspect; and,
Whereas, The President of the
United States in a recent public aL-
dress recognized the race question as
national problem and that every
government of the world was involved
in some phase of the question; and,
Whereas, The race question a.
commonly understood in this coun-
try is the darkest shadow across the
path of this republic; and.
Whereas, 1t is our most earnest
desire to reach a just, fair, amiable
and final settlement of this most
vexed and perioous question: There
fore,
Be it Resolved, By the Senate OF
the state of Mississippi, the House Of
Representative concurring therein,
that we do hereby solomnly memoir
ialize the congress Of the United
States of America to request the
President to acquire by treaty, ne
gotiation or otherwise from our late
war Allies sufficient territory on the
Continent of Africa TO make a suit
able, proper and final home for the
American negro, where under the
tute'age Of the American government
he can develop for himself a great
republic, to become in time free and
sovereign state and take its place at
the council board of the nations OF
the world, and to use such part Of
our allied war debt as may be neces-
sary in acquiring such territorial con-
cessions, to the end that our country
may become one in blood az it IL In
spirit, and that the dream Of our
forefathers may be realized in the
final colonization Of the American
negro on his native soil, and that the
spirit of race consciousness now 80
manifest in the American NEGRO may
he given opportunity for development
under the most advantageous cir
cumstances.