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 Who will not join in this noble enterprise? What enlightened and high-souled free colored man in America will not come forward and give his aid to this cause, when he once understands it, and sees its grand bearings? Here the work is entirely your own; the white man cannot take part in it, except by sympathy or pecuniary aid — he cannot personally join in this holy crusade against the Powers of Darkness and of African bondage: that climate is his grave — God made it so, but He has made it your healthy and happy home. For He was determined that the gentle African should have a land — and a noble land, too — which the restless white man should not intrude upon, but at the expense of life. Come, then (we would say to the free colored man of America), come and join in this high enterprise which God has committed to you; become His instruments in carrying out the great purpose which the Divine Providence had in view in