best encouragement to prosecute vigorously
commercial enterprises--especially, as before stated, the cotton
culture--the great source of wealth to any people and all civilized
nations.

Business Integrity

The British people have the fullest confidence in our integrity to carry
out these enterprises successfully, and now only await our advent there,
and commencement to do anything necessary we may desire, or that the
circumstances justify. Each individual is regarded as a man in these new
relations, and, as such, expected to make his own contracts according
to business custom, discharging in like manner his individual
obligations. It must here be expressly understood that there are to be
nothing but _business relations_ between us, their entire confidence and
dependence being in the self-reliant, independent transactions of black
men themselves. We are expected, and will be looked for, to create our
own ways and means among ourselves as other men do.

Public Endorsement

As an earnest of the estimate set upon our adventure, I subjoin the
names of a number of the leading commercial British journals--the two
first being English, and all the others Scottish, in the midst of
manufacturing districts, and all speaking favorably of the project:

The Leeds Mercury, the Newcastle Daily Chronicle, the Glasgow Herald,
the Glasgow Examiner, the Scottish Guardian, the North British Daily
Mail, the Glasgow Morning Journal, the Mercantile Advertiser, and
others. (For absence of these notices, see author's prefatory note.)

FROM THE DAILY CHRONICLE

_Newcastle-on-Tyne, Monday, September 17th, 1860_

DANGER AND SAFETY.-- ... The cotton of the United States affords
employment to upwards of three millions of people in England, and a
famine of cotton would be far worse than a famine of bread; the
deficiency of the latter could be supplied; but the destruction of
the cotton crop in America would be an evil of unparalleled
magnitude, and against which we have no present protection....
From the district of Lagos on the Gold coast, near the kingdom of
Dahomey, there comes amongst us Dr. Delany with promises of a
deeply interesting exposition of the prospects of Africa, and the
probabilities of the civilization and elevation of the black races.
He is a _bona fide_ descendant of one of the elite families of
Central Africa, a highly educated gentleman, whose prese