to be had at from $2 to $10
an acre, _on time_. The different railroads own large tracts of
land, and offer liberal inducements to emigrants. You can get
good land in some places for $1.25 an acre. The country is mostly
open prairie, and level, with deep, rich soil, producing from
forty to one hundred bushels of corn and wheat to the acre. The
corn grows about eight or nine feet high, and I never saw better
fruit anywhere than there.

The report was adopted.

The feeling of the colored people in that State in 1872 was well
expressed by Hon. Robert H. Knox, of Montgomery, a prominent
colored citizen, who, in addressing the convention, spoke as
follows:

I have listened with great attention to the report of the
commissioner appointed by authority of the State Labor Union to
visit Kansas, and while I own the inducements held out to the
laboring man in that far-off State are much greater than those
enjoyed by our State, I yet would say let us rest here awhile
longer; let us trust in God, the President, and Congress to give
us what is most needed here, personal security to the laboring
masses, the suppression of violence, disorder, and kukluxism, the
protection which the Constitution and laws of the United States
guarantee, and to which as citizens and men we are entitled.
Failing in these, it is time then, I repeat, to desert the State
and seek homes elsewhere where there may be the fruition of hopes
inaugurated when by the hand of Providence the shackles were
stricken from the limbs of four million men, where there may be
enjoyed in peace and happiness by your own fireside the earnings
of your daily toil.

Benjamin Singleton, an aged colored man, now residing in Kansas,
swears that he began the work inducing his race to migrate to
that State as early as 1869, and that he has brought mainly from
Tennessee, and located in two colonies--one in Cherokee County,
and another in Lyons County, Kansas--a total of 7,432 colored
people. The old man spoke in the most touching manner of the
sufferings and wrongs of his people in the South, and in the most
glowing terms of their condition in their new homes; and when
asked as to who originated the movement, he proudly asserted, "I
am the father of the exodus." He said that during these years