Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1899 — WOULD DEPORT NEGROES. [ARTICLE]

WOULD DEPORT NEGROES.

Southern African M. E. Church Will Call Upon Congress. At the annual conference of the presiding elders of the African Methodist Episcopal council of Georgia and Alabama at Birmingham, a resolution was adbpted calling upon Congress to appropriate $100,000,060 to deport the negroes from this country to whatever place or places it may be deemed best. Bishop Turner of Georgia in supporting the resolution declared be did not share in the belief of some that a truce could be patched up through Christian influence, but regards separation of the races as the only solution of the race problem.