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general consent, the national aid will be given. Already a line of steam-ships to Africa has been proposed. America will come up as one man to the work: — and what good purpose can they not accomplish, when to it they give their hands and hearts? — till, at length, where, some years since, a few scores or hundreds only of the colored population were seen creeping over to Africa, — a whole fleet will be on its rejoicing way across the sea, carrying thousands and tens of thousands yearly on their return to their free and happy home.[1]
BELL AND BAIN, PRINTERS, GLASGOW
- ↑ It is estimated that in ten years, from 1848 to 1858, upwards of four miillons of persons emigrated from Europe to America. Now, this is a greater number than the whole colored population of the United States, — showing, thus, that their removal is a thing in itself entirely practicable.
