t the report the same current of events was referred to; and
they were found to be everywhere the same as to the effects of the
colonial scheme on the manumission of slaves. To show the cause of the
objections to the scheme by free persons of color, Mr. B. read the
following extract:--

The Board would here remark, that in collecting emigrants
from among the free persons of color in the state, the
greatest difficulty they have experienced has grown out of
the incredulity of these with regard to the accounts given to
them of Africa. Even when their friends in Liberia have
written to them, inviting them to emigrate, and speaking
favorably of the country, they have believed that a restraint
was upon the writers, and that the society's agents prevented
any letter from reaching America, which did not speak in
terms of praise of Africa. The ingenuity of the colored
people in this state devised a simple test of the reliance
that was to be placed in letters, purporting to be written by
their friends; which they have, during the last year or
eighteen months, been putting into practice. When the
emigrant sailed from the United States, he took with him one
half of a strip of calico, the other half being retained by
the person to whom he was to write when he reached Africa. If
he was permitted to write without restraint, and if he spoke
his real sentiments in his letter, he enclosed his portion of
the calico, which, matching with that from which it had been
severed, gave authenticity and weight to the correspondence.
Many of these tokens, as they are called, have been received,
and their effect has been evident in the greater willingness
manifested by the free people of color to emigrate;
especially those of them who are at all well judging and well
informed.--4 A. R. page 6.

Whatever difficulties now exist as to getting free people of color to
avail themselves of the society's scheme and emigrate to Africa, arise
in a great degree from the efforts of the abolition party to
misrepresent the intentions of the society, and the state and
prospects of the colony, to the free colored people of the United
States,--thus showing the double atrocity of preventing these people
from being benefited, and of traducing those persons who wish to
benefit them. In an address from Cape Palmas, by the Colonists to
their brethren in America, da