IV. 
Call for (Emigration. 
EN of our race dispersed in the United States ! Your fate. 
■*■*-*• your social position, instead of ameliorating, daily becomes 
worse. The chains of those who are slaves are riveted; and 
prejudice, more implacable, perhaps, than servitude, pursues 
and crushes down the free. Everything is contested with us in 
that country in which, nevertheless, they boast of liberty; they 
have invented a new slavery for the free, who believed that they 
had now no masters; it is this humiliating patronage which is 
revolting to your hearts. Philanthropy, in spite of its noble 
efforts, secnfi more powerless than ever to lead your cause to 
victory. Contempt and hatred increase against you, and the 
people of the United States desire to eject you from its bosom. 
Come, then, to us! the doors of Hayti are open to you. By 
a happy coincidence, which Providence seems to have brought 
about in your behalf, Hayti has risen from the long debasement 
in which a tyrannical government had held her ; liberty is re¬ 
stored there. Come and join us; come and bring to us a con¬ 
tingent of power, of light, of labor; come, and together with 
us, advance our own common country in prosperity. We will 
come by this means to the.aid of the philanthropists who make 
such generous efforts to break the chains of those of our breth¬ 
ren who are still in slavery. 
Our institutions are liberal. The government is mild and 
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