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Continent, on which it is proposed to employ the Freedman, will have furnished them with Experience requisite for undertaking similar works elsewhere. And who can tell but that this great task of rendering the Coast of Africa more salubrious, may await the enterprise of Colonists returned; and that if accomplished under the guidance of American Science, it may be the pledge of the ultimate restoration of his race to the pale of civilization. This is a theme on which we might expatiate; but the length to which this paper has already drawn out, admonishes us that we must hasten to a close. So we will touch on but one of the topics.

The friends of Liberia & other traders to those shores tell us, that even now they furnish the subjects of a profitable commerce; that there are then & greater resources yet to be developed. In particular, that its mineral kingdom, if properly explored, ought richly repay the search. If so the previous experience of the Freedman in the Mines of America will have qualified them also to lay open this additional source of wealth, and the U. States, in consideration of her great outlay in their behalf, might claim a monopoly, for a time, of this commerce, swelled as it might be by these new accessions.

Should this policy here delineated be adopted by Government & steadily pursued, then may the hope of the Philanthropist — so long deferred, be at length fulfilled. This people, which has been the occasion of so many & protracted controversies — & which must otherwise [[?]] to a [[?]], & degenerate to a Gipsy Race, or hurry on to extinction — will gradually disappear from the land, without our having any thing further to reproach ourselves with on the score of humanity. They will also have carried back Religion & Civilization to Africa; and the perseverance of those will be ensured, & a return to barbaric vile destructive vices [[strikethrough]] be [[/strikethrough]] prevented, by a continued intercourse, both convivial  & friendly; between them & the Country in which their fathers so long sojourned.

Respectfully submitted,
N. Fran Cabell

Col. O. Brown
Freedman's Burea.
Richmond.

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