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...meeting will be addressed by Mrs. Sharp, who has for nearly twenty years directed the High Schools for young women in the State of Liberia in Western Africa. Her accounts of the native tribes, of their manufactures, of their customs and their attitude toward our civilization, is most instructive and will, I am sure, interest the student community. Yours truly, EDWARD E. HALE...
...Washington began his address by taking up and discussing three of the plans which have been suggested as solutions of the negro problem: -- exportation of the negroes to Liberia, restriction to reservations, and the assimilation of the negro with the white race. All these plans he showed to be visionary and impossible of execution. The negroes came to this country at the invitation of the whites, not like the whites themselves in 1492, "against the protest of the leading citizens of the country;" they have come to stay, and the problem of the negro people must be taken...
...give some little notice of a meeting to be held in the Old South Meeting House, Washington street, Boston, on February 7, at 4 p. m., in the interests of the American Colonization in the Republic of Liberia? The Rt. Rev. H. C. Potter, D. D., Bishop of New York, will speak, and outline the work which is opening before the American Colonization Society...
...society in the past has sent many emigrants from the southern states to Liberia, and there is at present such a wide-spread interest among the Negroes in colonization that the society is trying to gain friends who will aid in transporting those who wish to become citizens of the republic on the west coast of Africa...
Political parties exist, too, in Liberia, and are known as the "True Whigs" and the "Republicans" The former are the progressive or liberal element, and desire to extend the republic to neighboring tribes; the latter are the conservatives, and not only oppose such a course, but would restrict the privileges of Europeans who are in the republic. As an evidence that party feeling does not run high, it may be noted that both conventions recently united in the choice of a nominee for president. Two vice-presidents are in the field, however. Dr. Blyden expects to visit Harvard Thursday afternoon...