The Colored People's Convention
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The Colored People's Convention
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Chronicling America
Publisher
Indianapolis Journal
Date
1886-06-03
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THE COLORED PEOPLE'S CONVENTION.
Resolutions Favoring Various Reforms-Sympathy with the Irish People.
A meeting of colored men, numbering about twenty, from various parts of the State, was held yesterday at Union Hall. W. H. Demory, of Randolph county, was chosen president, Jacob Franklin vice-president, and Wm. Winn, secretary. A committee on the resolutions was chosen, with Bennett Stewart, of Brazil. as chairman. A number of papers were read, the writers of which were not present. A paper on colonization was read by John T. Mahorney, reciting the fact that every other people on earth was being invited to immigrate to the United States, while the negro is urgently invited to leave his native land to go to a foreign country by an organized society of his own countrymen. The committee on resolutions reported the following, which were adopted. The meeting will probably continue to-day: -
Resolved, That we, the colored people of Indiana, in convention assembled, urge upon Congress the necessity and justice of the passage, at this session, of Senate bill No. 1800, now pending in the Senate, for the restitution to the freedmen and others in the Indian Territory of their rights; and that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to our Senators for presentation to the Senate, and that they be requested to use their influence to secure its passage at the present session of Congress. - Resolved.
That the Colonization Society, with headquarters at Washington, D. C., is a relic of barbarism and a disgrace to this Nation. -
Resolved, That we issue a call to colored people of the United States to hold a national political convention in Indianapolis, June 3, 1887. -
Resolved, That we sympathize with Ireland in her struggle for self-government. -
Resolved, That we heartily sympathize with the masses of our race in Cuba, who are panting under their burdens of slavery, and extend to them our prayers that slavery will ultimately be abolished.
THE COLORED PEOPLE'S CONVENTION.
Resolutions Favoring Various Reforms-Sympathy with the Irish People.
A meeting of colored men, numbering about twenty, from various parts of the State, was held yesterday at Union Hall. W. H. Demory, of Randolph county, was chosen president, Jacob Franklin vice-president, and Wm. Winn, secretary. A committee on the resolutions was chosen, with Bennett Stewart, of Brazil. as chairman. A number of papers were read, the writers of which were not present. A paper on colonization was read by John T. Mahorney, reciting the fact that every other people on earth was being invited to immigrate to the United States, while the negro is urgently invited to leave his native land to go to a foreign country by an organized society of his own countrymen. The committee on resolutions reported the following, which were adopted. The meeting will probably continue to-day: -
Resolved, That we, the colored people of Indiana, in convention assembled, urge upon Congress the necessity and justice of the passage, at this session, of Senate bill No. 1800, now pending in the Senate, for the restitution to the freedmen and others in the Indian Territory of their rights; and that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to our Senators for presentation to the Senate, and that they be requested to use their influence to secure its passage at the present session of Congress. - Resolved.
That the Colonization Society, with headquarters at Washington, D. C., is a relic of barbarism and a disgrace to this Nation. -
Resolved, That we issue a call to colored people of the United States to hold a national political convention in Indianapolis, June 3, 1887. -
Resolved, That we sympathize with Ireland in her struggle for self-government. -
Resolved, That we heartily sympathize with the masses of our race in Cuba, who are panting under their burdens of slavery, and extend to them our prayers that slavery will ultimately be abolished.
Convention Minutes Item Type Metadata
Convention Type
State Convention
City
Indianapolis
State
IN
Country
USA
Start Date
1886-06-02
End Date
1886-06-02
Provenance
Library of Congress
Event ID
1886.IN-06.02.INDI
Citation
Demory, W.H.; Franklin, Jacob; Mahorney, John T., “The Colored People's Convention,” Colored Conventions Project Digital Records, accessed October 22, 2026, https://www.omeka.coloredconventions.org/items/show/2286.