t towards migration as reasonable human
beings, providing in advance, by economy and effective labor, the
means for transportation and settlement, and sustain their
reputation for honesty and fair dealing, by preserving intact
until completion the contracts for labor and leasing, which they
have made. If, when they have done this, they still desire to
leave, all obstacles to their departure be removed; all
practicable assistance will be afforded to them, and their places
will be supplied with other and contented labor.

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. Fren