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AID ASSOCIATION.
HON J. MILTON TURNER, President.
ALBERT BURGESS, Secretary.
W. H. SCUDDER, Acting Treasurer.
CHAS. H. TYLER,
J AS. W. WILSON,
MATTNEW RICHARDSON, D , ,
JOHN J. HARRIS, \ Board of Directors.
J AS. P. THOMAS,
RICHARD SMITH, J
CHAS. H. TYLER, \ R . ,,
J AS. W. WILSON, )Board °f Mana<
srers.
The Citizens of St. Louis are in no way instrumental to
gate this migration of Colored People. Their work is
that of humanity.
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The Colored Immigration Association.
St. Louis, Mo., April 22, iSyg.
The colored men of this city, who have been active in the or¬
ganization of the above named society, to assist the colored im¬
migrants from the South in finding a local habitation in the
rich and groiving west, have just perfected that organization,
with the above named as president, secretary, treasurer and di¬
rectors. These names include some of the leading colored men
of the place, and an advisory board, to be composed of some of
the most public spirited and benevolent of our citizens, and
these art: a guaranty to all who know them of perfect good
faith, integrity and trustworthiness in the distribution of such
funds as may be contributed to them for the purposes indicated.
The articles of the society have already been incorporated,
and the object is set f>rth in the following :
" The object of the association shall be to raise funds for the
establishment of colored settlements and to aid the colored im¬
migrants who may reach our city zvhile fleeing from the South¬
ern States
Aid will only be extended to the colored immigrant on his
way bona fide to his new home.
The exorbitant rent he has been compelled to pay the land
owner in the South, and the annual bills to the store-keeper, eat
up the entire fruits of his labor, while murder, rapine, arson
and most barbarous outlaivry have prevailed to persecute the
negro, and now that a general exodus of those poor ajflieted
people is upon us, we recognise in that only the legitimate result
of the persistent plunderings and exactions of the haughty
planters of that section.
St. Louis is the first objective point of all these exiles, and
is the place where aid can be most effective!)' and economically
rendered them, and where sou/id jugdment and friendly counsel
can be best employed to so distribute them in their desire to
form settlements in Kansas and other parts as to avoid their
becoming paupers in the land whither they journey.
Our streets are crowded almost daily with men, women and
children without sufficient clothing, shelter or food. The tireless
charity of our citizens has responded liberally to the appeal of
suffering humanity in this case, until we fnd it necessary to
ask for help.
This appeal is made to the charitable, the philanthropic, the
benefactors of the race of all localities, who desire to assist the
lowly and the downtrodden in establishing homes where he and
his family can enjoy in peace and security all the fruits of his
labor.
Contributions to the cause can be sent through Charles Par¬
sons, President of the State Savings Association, St. Louis,
Mo., and will be thankfully received.
Respectfully,
ALBERT BURGESS, Secretary.
By order of
HON. J. MILTON TURNER, President.