Transcriber's Note: Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as possible, including non-standard spelling and punctuation. Some changes of spelling and punctuation have been made. They are listed at the end of the text. Italic text has been marked with _underscores_. Bold text has been marked with =equals signs=. Principia Club Papers, No. 9. EMANCIPATION AND EMIGRATION. A PLAN TO TRANSFER the FREEDMEN OF THE SOUTH to the GOVERNMENT LANDS OF THE WEST. BOSTON, MASS.: PUBLISHED BY THE PRINCIPIA CLUB. 1878. CONTENTS. Page Open Letter to the Freedmen of the South, 3 Emancipation and Emigration, 5 Preamble and Resolutions, 7 Plan of Operations, 10 Safety as an Investment, 12 Objections Considered, 12 Settlement of Freedmen on Government Lands Approved, 14 The Freedmen's Danger, 15 The National Farmers' Association, 16 Appendix, 17 SPECIAL NOTICE. The PRINCIPIA CLUB PAPERS consist of nine chapters, to wit: Vaticanism Unmasked, Chaps. 1 and 2 The Political Trinity of Despotism, Chap. 3 Despotism vs. Republicanism, Chap. 4 The Ballot a Sacred Trust, Chap. 5 The Political Trinity Victorious, Chap. 6 The Southern Policy a Failure, Chap. 7 Finance, Politics, and Religion, Chap. 8 Emancipation and Emigration: a Plan to Colonize and Settle the Freedmen of the South on the Government Lands of the West, Chap. 9 All these chapters, or papers, make a book of 344 pages, and will be sold for $1.00. N. B.--Orders should be addressed "J. W. ALDEN, President of the Principia Club, No. 9 Hanson Street, Boston, Mass." AN OPEN LETTER TO THE FREEDMEN OF THE SOUTH. CAMBRIDGEPORT, MASS., Aug. 13, 1878.