head of the colored heads of our people. We may, if we
please, refuse to emigrate, and crouch like spaniels, to lick the
hand that beats us; but children's children at the farthest, will
have outgrown such pitiful meanness, and will dare to do all that
others have dared and done for the sake of freedom and
independence. Then all this cowardly cant about the unhealthy
climate, the voracious beasts, and venomous reptiles of Africa,
will be at a discount, instead of passing current as now for wisdom
and prudence.

Mr. Campbell, who finally agreed voluntarily to be one of the "Niger
Valley Exploring Party," spent some time with us in New York and some
time in Philadelphia, but finally, in consequence of the doubtful
prospects of my success, left, it would seem, at the suggestion and with
the advice and recommendation of parties in Philadelphia, disconnected
with and unknown to me, from whom he received letters of introduction
for England. In justice to myself and party as organized, as well as the
great cause and people whom I represent, I here simply remark, that this
was no arrangement of mine nor our party, as such at the time; and
whatever of success the visit was attended with, and benefit thereby
accrued mutually to us in Africa, I as frankly decline any authority in
the matter and credit to myself, as I should had the result proved what
it might have done otherwise. I am only willing to claim that which is
legitimately mine, and be responsible for my own doings whether good or
bad; but this act the integrity of the Party was forced to acknowledge,
as the following circular published in England will show:

EXPEDITION TO AFRICA TO PROMOTE THE CULTIVATION OF COTTON AND OTHER
PRODUCTS OF SLAVE-LABOR BY EMIGRANTS FROM AMERICA

A party, consisting of Martin R. Delany, M.D., Robert Campbell, J.
W. Purnell, Robert Douglass, and Amos Aray, M.D., (the last two
subsequently omitted) has been commissioned by a Convention of
Colored Persons, held at Chatham, C.W., to proceed to Africa, and
select a location for the establishment of an Industrial Colony.

While such an enterprise is of importance in the Evangelization and
Civilization of Africa, and in affording an asylum in which the
oppressed descendants of that country may find the means of
developing their mental and moral faculties unimpeded by unjust
restrictions, it is r