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Rh although it is in its power to do so, the government, the people never actually undertake any measures that would radically relieve the condition. They come pretty near it sometimes, but they never seem to have the moral and intellectual strength to push the act or acts to a final accomplishment. As I say, I agitated this segregation, this expatria- tion, of the negro of this country to the best of my ability, long, long ago, when it was quite feasible to carry it out successfully. On that account many negroes were very bitter toward me, no more bitter, however, I suppose, than had I been among them in Africa, and ridiculed the cannibalistic ceremonies attending the erection of one of their Juju houses. They would have been equally provoked. Some of my published papers on this subject have been set forth in the early pages of this book, but the other day I came across the following unpublished manuscript of mine, stowed away among my personal archives. It is of some historical value, and I wrote it at Takoma, D. C, on the 16th day of January, 1893, and sub- mitted it to the then editor of Science, of New York, for publication. It was promptly rejected, whereupon I mailed it to Wm. P. Garrison, Esq., the editor of The Nation, and a son of the famous abolitionist, Wm. Lloyd Garrison. Mr. Garrison also rejected it, and I therefore here publish both his letter to me and the aforesaid MS. in the present connection. They read as follows : — LIBERIA AND THE AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY " A year ago, when the present writer published in Science, of New York (No. 416), his views upon 'The