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the Society still remains in the Colonization building, 450 Pennsylvania avenue.' (See Appendix, Note 8, p. 248.) " We sincerely trust, for the mutual benefit of the two races, that Bishop Potter v^ill succeed with his present plans of the American Colonization Society, and that when ' quicker and cheaper communication is accomplished ' the negroes ' will turn their faces toward the land whence they came.' Liberia most sorely needs the aid, the pecuniary aid, of some of the richer members of the race now sojourning with us, for in 1871 she borrowed the small sum of $500,000 from Great Britain and has never been able to return a single dollar of it since, nor a ' ha'penny's ' interest on the same. " R. W. Shufeldt." Takoma, D. C, January 16, 1893. Mr. Garrison's letter read thus : — The Nation, 208 Broadway (P. O. Box 794), New York, Jan. 18, 1893. " Dear Dr. Shufeldt: It surprises me that you, an evolutionist, should be found attaching yourself to that ' survival ' known as the American Col. Society. It is a little more than 60 years ago since my father hit it the hardest whack it ever received, and ut- terly discredited it in the eyes of the real philan- thropists of this country. All the economic objections to it are as strong now as then; its reliance is the same, barring the pecuniary support of slaveholders, viz. — on the spirit of caste; and nothing astonishes me more than to see Bishop Potter accepting the presidency,, when I know his opinion of my father after reading his Life. There is nothing new in the