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and silver district would be materially shortened and 
its development rendered more easy and certain. 
Looking at all these facts, the Blewfields Biver 
seems to offer every possible advantage as a field of 
emigration for the more industrious coloured popula¬ 
tion of the Southern States. The climate is healthy 
(yellow fever is unknown), and is indeed in every 
respect superior to that in the vicinity of the Missis¬ 
sippi. It is easily accessible, and has a ready market 
in all directions for every sort of produce. It must, 
however, be understood that I do not propose this 
locality as an emigration field for the uncontrolled 
negro; he must fail to progress whenever and wher¬ 
ever he is cursed with absolute freedom,—but there is 
some hope for those who have a white inter mix ture, 
however slight, in their veins. To such men a rapid 
and certain fortune is in their own hands, by the exer¬ 
cise of a little patience and perseverance in this real 
land of promise; and there is no denying that their de¬ 
parture from the United States would be a happy thing 
for all parties. They would soon learn to bless the day 
of their exodus, for certain extermination is the lot of 
those who remain. The Americans could not but feel 
that the departure of the irrepressible nigger* was a 
good riddance of what must ever remain an incongru¬ 
ous element; but in Mosquito they would be hailed as 
countrymen, warmly welcomed, and really be placed 
in a position to do some good for themselves. 
The description just given of my last journey in 
Any one with even a tinge of “ colour ” or the semblance of wool 
is open to be called a nigger in the United States. 
