He said further: "This Nation. or its aggregated people. will either have to open a highway to Africa for the discontented black man. or the Negro will flinder this Government." I cannot close these remarks about Bishop Turner without including a letter that he wrote when an old man to W. P. Pickett. who was then preparing a publication entitled "The Negro ProblemAbraham Lincolns Solution." -This letter. under date of January 12. 1907. reads as follows: "I pray God that you will continue in the great work in which you are engaged and move this country to help the Negro to emigrate to the land of his ancestors. I have visited that continent as often as I have fingers on my hand. and it is one of the richest continents under heaven in natural resources. Millions of colored people in this country want to go. Give us a line of steamers * * * and let us pay as much as the onillion or more white immigrants pay coming from Liverpool. London. and Hamburg to this country. and the Negroes will leave by thousands and by tens of thousandsyes. by millions." The question of colonizing the Negro or of .separating the two races has been almost continuously agitated throughout the past century. The various proposals to accomplish this end are not characterized by any essential differences.
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