New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1873-01-09

towns, and Villages, as d.i the pioneers Q.
what was the western frontier, but what has
become under the well-applied capital of the
unmoneyed first settlers rich and prosperous
States, cities, and towns. These unmoneyeo
settlers sought the spot where the only capl-
tai they possessed was needed, and whefe
the probabilities were that an investment oil
their peculiar capital would be highly re-
muneratye. They came together from COM
munitics where their capital was not III de-
mand, leaving a market gIuttcd for market
loncingIy awaiting a supply. The market Is
still open and the demand for the poor mans
peculiar capital is great, 50 great that every
effort is bciu. made to induce the poor of
other countries to come and invest the ouly
capital they have labOr-in our great West.
What folly il /, for colored men possessing
a large share Of the poor mans capital to
take It away from the country where it is
needed aud where its Investment brings
fall return to land where il is insecure, and
the chances are greate for its total annihila-
ton than for its bringing any valuable re-
c2mpcnse.
In few OF the Southern States, where the
colored mans capital Is needed, it Is not
secure, and the possessors OF 1t are seeking
a place where they can make safe and re-
muneratiye investment In their natural
and laudable desire to use their resources IN
the way most profitable to them, they should
be wary lest they be duped, as not inire-
quently are some Of our astuto noneyed men,
by diamond swindleIs, into an investment OF
their capital at point where it will be
total loss. The scheme to colonize Africa
with the colored people of this country Is an
invention to deprive them Of the results OF
their labor here, and Is not one whit less
reprehcnsible than the swIndling operations
Of the Erie ring or the diamond cheats. Ii
any class Of people have earned right to
share in the prosperity Of this country 1t is
the colored pooplo, whose patience under
wrong, and whose unrequited labor have
largely aided in developing and improving
vast portion of the nation. Under the pre-
text of desire to Cbrlstianize Africa, the
American Colonization Society, in obedience
to a spirit OF race-hate, seeks to delude col
ored men and women to destruction, conf
hitting murder with malice prepensc, in the
name of Christianity. To the agents of this
organized hatred of the wronged and out
ragged colored man, every colored person
should turn deaf ear, remembering that the
nations invitation goes out to the poor Of
other lands to come and develop our re-
sources because Of the fact that our present
supply of the poor mans capital IL made
quatc stay in the United States colored
men, it covers a wide area, there is room
and to spare, there is work in never-endlng
supply, and YOU are as much entitled TO it as
any other class Of American citizens. The
laws will protect all alike, and it is only
question of short time when you will have
made such advancement a - command the
respect Of the enlightened .! the land; and
the projectors OF your ruin by sending you to
Africa, will have subsidized under the scorn OF
4 generous and liberty-loving people.