The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919Various
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The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919
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Your committee believe that if the views employed in the
foregoing resolutions are practically carried out by the people
of both races, in good faith, the disquiet of our people will
subside. We appeal to the people of both races, in the States
here represented, to aid us in carrying these resolutions into
effect, and to report to the authorities all violations of the
laws and all interference with private rights.
W. L. NUGENT,
_Chairman_.
Gov. Foote moved to amend by substituting other resolutions, and
addressed the convention in support of his motion.
Speeches were made in favor of the original resolutions by Judge
Simrall, Hon. James Hill, Capt. W. B. Pittman, Mr. Robinson, of
Arkansas, and Col. Nugent.
At the conclusion of Col. Nugent's address the resolutions were
adopted unanimously and the convention adjourned sine die.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] These proceedings appeared in _The Vicksburg Commercial Daily
Advertiser_, May 5, 1879.
HOW THE NEGROES WERE DUPED[1]
WASHINGTON LETTER TO _New York Herald_.
Gorgeously illuminated chromo-lithographs of Kansas scenes have
been distributed among the blacks. The gentleman who has seen
some of these chromos writes that the most ravishing presentment
of rural life in Kansas is depicted. The Negroes look on the
State as a second paradise, compared with which old Canaan is a
Florida swamp. One of these pictures, entitled "A Freedman's
Home," represents a fine landscape, with fields of ripening grain
stretching away to the setting sun.
In the foreground, illuminated by a marvelous sunset, stood the
freedman's home. It was a picturesque cottage with gables, dormer
windows and wide verandas. French windows reached down to the
floor, and through the open casements appeared a seductive scene
in the family sitting room. The colored father, who had just
returned from his harvest fields, sat in an easy chair reading a
newspaper, while the children and babies rollicked on the floor
of the piazza. Through the open door of the kitchen the colored
wife could be seen directing the servants and cooks who were
preparing the evening meal. In the parlor, however, was the most
enchanting feature, for at a grand piano was poised the belle of
the household, and beside the piano where she was playing stood
her colored lover, devouring her with his eyes while he
abstractedly turned the leaves of her music. Just to one side of
the dwelling appeared a commodious barn and carriage house and
workmen busily engaged in putting in order their reapers and
mowers for the following day.
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