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The Daily Dispatch: December 11, 1862., [Electronic resource], Milroy 's operations in the Northwest . (search)
Hayti and Liberia.
Lincoln says, in his Message:
"Liberia and Hayti are as yet the only countries to which colonists of African descent from here could go with certainty of being received and adopted as citizens; and, I regret to say, such persons contemplating colonization do not seem willing to migrate to those countrLiberia and Hayti are as yet the only countries to which colonists of African descent from here could go with certainty of being received and adopted as citizens; and, I regret to say, such persons contemplating colonization do not seem willing to migrate to those countries as to some others, nor so willing as I think their interests demand."
It appears from the above that among such 'gemmed of color' as "contemplate colonization"--a very small proportion of the whole — Liberia and Hayti are not popular.
Will some of the negro worshippers explain the reason?
Why should the African race, oLiberia and Hayti are not popular.
Will some of the negro worshippers explain the reason?
Why should the African race, of all others, disdain to emigrate at all, or, if it consent to emigrate, refuse to go where its own color predominates?
Why would they rather be kicked and cuffed about even by white Yankees than live on terms of perfect equality with their own brethren?
Give us the philosophy of that, oh, Abraham!