not care to
remove. If he cannot obtain such treatment there, it is his
right and duty to secure it by every means in his power, and no
one has the right to say he may not change his residence at his
own will and pleasure.

"Your proposed inquiry will contribute much to inform and
control the action of those who may desire to emigrate and your
discretion gives the best assurance that no rash action will be
advisable. I regret the committee has no funds at command to
pay your necessary traveling expenses.

"Hon. James P. Rapier, Member of Congress, of Montgomery,
Alabama, I have also designated as a member of said committee,
but I am not sufficiently advised to name the third member.

"Very respectfully yours,

(Signed.) "WM. WINDOM,

"Chairman.

"Mifflin W. Gibbs, Little Rock, Ark."

It often happens that distance lends enchantment to the view; that while
contending with hardship, disappointment, and earnest toil, we are apt
to imagine that at some far locality, amid new surroundings, there
abides a reign of contentment and happiness, where labor has its highest
rewards and where there is a minimum of those trials inseparable from
human existence. The gratification of this migratory impulse has in many
instances proved disastrous, the yielding to which should be only
indulged after every possible effort has been made to remove local
obstacles by uprightness, softening animosities, and by industry
accumulate wealth. But emigrants have been illustrious as nation
builders, their indomitable spirit blessing mankind and leaving impress
on the scroll of time. The bump on the head of the Negro that the
phrenologists call "inhabitiveness" is very prominent; he is not
naturally migratory--"content to bear the ills he has, than fly to those
he knows not of." Hence there appeared reason, if not entire "method in
his madness."

[Illustration: HON. JOHN P. GREEN.

United States Stamp Agent.

Educated at Cleveland, Ohio--A Leading Member of the Bar--Twice Elected
to the Senate of the Ohio Legislature.]

In all movements of like character there are always conflicting rumors
and reports as to success or failure of the benefit or loss of the
venture, and this was no exception. Colored immigrants to the number of
10,000 had left the South during a brief period, and the wildest rumors
circulated as to reception and success of these foreru