To whom then can this rich territory offer greater inducements than to the colored people of the United States? And what is more natural and rational than that they, when the population of the country approaches the migration point, should follow the line of least resistance and turn their steps to the home of their forefathers. AUTHORITIES. The sources of information which proved most useful to the writer are: The Annual Reports of the A.C.S., together with the files of its quarterly journal, the _African Repository_. Messages of Presidents of Liberia, and the Reports of Secretaries of Treasury, War, and Navy. The Archives of the Maryland State Colonization Society, preserved by the Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore. * * * * * KENNEDY: Colonization Report. ALEXANDER: History of Colonization. 1845. GURLEY: Report on Condition of Liberia. 1850. CARL RITTER: Begründung u. gegenwärtige Zustände der Negerrepublik Liberia. 1852. ANDERSON: Narrative of a Journey to Musardu. 1870. LATROBE: Maryland in Liberia. 1885. WAUWERMANS: Libéria; Histoire de la Fondation d'un État nègre libre. 1885. SCHWARTZ: Einiges über das interne Leben der Eingebornen Liberias. Deutsche Kolonialzeitung. 1887. --Die Neger-Republik Liberia. Das Ausland. 1888. BLYDEN: Christianity, Islam, and the Negro Race. BÜTTIKOFER: Reisebilder aus Liberia. 1890. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 1: Letter to Philip A. Bruce, dated London, April 8, 1889.] [Footnote 2: James Ferguson, _Life of Hopkins_. Hopkins' Circular, 1793.] [Footnote 3: Jefferson, _Notes on Virginia_.] [Footnote 4: Kennedy's _Report_, p. 160.] [Footnote 5: A.C.S. Report for 1853, pp. 37-55.] [Footnote 6: The remarks of these gentlemen and others of similar views have subjected the Society to many unjust attacks. Of course many would join such a movement from mixed motives; but the guiding principles of the Society itself have always been distinctly philanthropic.] [Footnote 7: Report of Amos Kendall, Fourth Auditor, to the Secretary of the Navy, August, 1830.] [Footnote 8: Ashmun.] [Footnote 9: These were eventually paid by the United States Government. Kendall's Report to Secretary of Navy, December, 1830.] [Footnote 10: The outbreak of the Civil War ended the arrangement after the third payment.] [Footnote 11: This singular petition is preserved in Minute Book No. 4 of the M.S. C.S., p. 36.] [Footnote 12: Carl Ritter, who saw him in 1852, speaks of him as "den edlen, hochgebildeten, erfahrenen, weisen, und der Rede sehr kundigen Staatsman Wir (i.e., Ritter,) haben wiederholt seinen würdenvollen Reden in den ersten Kreisen in London beigewohnt."] [Footnote 13: _Semi-Centennial Memorial_, p. 190.] [Footnote 14: B. Anderson, _Narrative of a Journey to Musardu_.] [Footnote 15: A.C. Reports of 1881 and 1882.] [Footnote 16: Anderson's _Journey to Musardu_.] End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of History of Liberia, by J.H.T. McPherson