We desire now to return to Africa and make It our home. but after all the years given eo the white race. weas a people are left without the means of paying our passage or providing for our nimeito wants on landing in Liberia. We ask that you will aid our efforts. and that not as a charity. but as a debt. Oar reasons for desiring to emigrate are two: The experience of twelve years since our emancipation shows that the number of laborers in this country increases more rapidly than thatef employers. and that the competition of white labor will leave many of ni unemployed. Besides. the experience of more than one hundred years in flee Nqorthern States shows thot in this competition the colored people cannot expeet to occupy any but subordinate psitions either as laborers or as citizens. The main reason urged why we shoalromain bere is. that our labor and oor votes are needed in this country. a suggestion that our interests should in the future as in the past be made subordinate to the interests of the white people.
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