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160 Society's programme : — it is, to raise all the wind it can to afford a living for its officers. Its humbug colony has been a stench for seventy years, and is no place for any human being to go to to elevate him- self. The Congo Free State would be infinitely pref- erable. But the blacks will not go, and those who declared it to be the hand of Providence that brought them here to be slaves must view the same hand in the perseverence of their stay as freemen. " Thanks for your interesting pamphlets. " Sincerely yours, " W. P. Garrison." (See Appendix, Note 9, p. 272.) To the best of my recollection, to this letter I made no reply. It needed no reply from me, for at that time the American Colonization Society, with Bishop Potter at its head, was doing all in its power to in- duce, by eminently peaceful means, the negro to re- turn to his native home in Africa. And here we are, fourteen years afterwards, after the above MS. and letter were written, still struggling with the same horrid problem. We are still in the coils of this great black snake we warmed at the coun- try's hearthstone so many, many years ago. All the daily papers still discuss the propriety of shipping as many negroes as possible out of our country. Send them here, send them there, send them anywhere, but let us not tolerate them any longer. Africa has been proposed; Hayti has been suggested; the Philippines have been mentioned, yet nothing has been done. Still he remains, while a few half-breeds that have attained