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A Parting Word. 
strength in fighting mosquitoes, and such is the warfare to which 
your children are destined. It is a noble spectacle to see the 
fight that some brave men among you maintain against the 
prejudices of Americans, but — 
“In vain, alas! in vain, ye gallant few!” 
are all your efforts, in behalf of your native land; you are 
trying to drive back an ocean, which, by its mere physical 
superiority, will throw up the bodies of your children, after a 
generation or two, pale and unrecognizable, on its Saxon 
shores! 
In Hayti, a far different future is opened to the colored race. 
There, it can develop, itself in freedom; there, exhibit its 
capacity and genius. Nowhere else is there such an opportunity 
presented, — absolutely nowhere in the world.* In Africa, 
the various races are x still separate and hostile ; in Hayti, they 
are all represented and united. The black Haytian, therefore, 
is the result of the mingling of all of the African bloods; and 
in him, as is the case with other families of men, this union has 
produced the best specimen of the race. The men of color 
there, also, in point of intelligence, ask no favors in any com¬ 
parison between themselves and their ancestors. 
But still another element is needed in Hayti, — the Saxon 
character, which the men of African descent, to a greater or 
less extent, in the United States and the Canadas, possess. 
She invites this element to come to her. She offers you a 
home, a nationality, a future. She presents to you the oppor¬ 
tunity of not only exhibiting the capacity of your race, but of 
creating a new Eden in the most fertile of the Antilles; and, 
at the same time, of checking the Slave Labor System of the 
South at its source, —in the markets that suppoit it. Would 
you fight Virginia with a weapon - that she will fear as much as 
she dreaded the rifles of John Brown ? Grow tobacco in Hayti, 
* Liberia, if a success, will be the white man’s victory ( for he called it into 
being* and has fostered it from its birth* 
