leaving their homes under pressure of one cause or another, and striking
out into new fields. The western course of migration has reached its
uttermost limit, and the tide must turn in other directions. One vast
and rich continent remains; upon it the eyes of the world are fixed.
Already the aggressive Aryan has established himself wherever he can
gain a foothold; but the greater part of the country is forever barred
to him by a climate which he cannot subdue.

To whom then can this rich territory offer greater inducements than to
the colored people of the United States? And what is more natural and
rational than that they, when the population of the country approaches
the migration point, should follow the line of least resistance and turn
their steps to the home of their forefathers.




AUTHORITIES.


The sources of information which proved most useful to the writer are:

The Annual Reports of the A.C.S., together with the files of its
quarterly journal, the _African Repository_.

Messages of Presidents of Liberia, and the Reports of Secretaries of
Treasury, War, and Navy.

The Archives of the Maryland State Colonization Society, preserved by
the Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore.