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Appendix to the Programme
(Extract from a paper entitled "The Black Race in North America; Why was their introduction permitted? For which see  'Southern Literary messenger' for Nov'r 1855 or "DeBois Review" for 1856 Jan'y to April inclusive.)

"And can so large a number of persons as the blacks, who will then cover this [[strikethrough]] midst[[/strikethrough]] region, be removed from our midst without convulsion and disaster? Will not the mass be too unwieldy for our strength? The removal of its entirety as we shall presently see - will not be necessary. But if it were we are not prepared to say what would be impossible to the abilities of the future.  Many men enterprize, men through - visionary, has proved to be entirely feasible with the improved appliances of the present day, and may be still more facilitated by those to be added in coming generations.

History scends for our encouragement, many migratings of entire races and displacements of nations. We cannot now pause to [[?]] at length, the excessive inundations, which on the old continent, have flowed from, the far east to the west; or from the "populous north" to the fertile and attractive plains of the south. To me who is mused in the annuals of the Old World, the bare suggestions will call up a long line of moving panoramas. 

The many names of Tartans and Mongols; of Henrys; of Ivans; of Turks; Saracens and Moors; of Gauls, Cimbri, and Teutons; Goths, Vandals, and Franks; of Saxons, Danes, and Northmen, may show us something of what is possible, when whole nations are animated by the same spirits, possessed with a fixed idea, and moved, as if were, by a single impulse.

These grand processions which have shaken the solid earth, presenting aspect almost wholly military, are, however, not less significant to our purpose than certain less noisy though not less significant events of our own times; albeit these latter were more voluntary and less organized appearance. Look to the clearing of the Scottish Highlands; to the recent Irish Exodus; to the multitudes of immigrants to this country [[strikethrough]] to this country [[/strikethrough]] from the British Isles; from Germany and France. Look to Australia to Texas, California, Wisconsin, Iowa - nations as it were, born in a day; and only all doubt of the possibility of our task must vanish; espescially  when we consider that the millions who have so lately changed their places of abode, have done so without cost to their respective governments.

To which I would now, the wonderful development & display of naval power by the U. S. to the late Civil [[?]].

Transcription Notes:
3rd paragraph - "scends", this is the only word that made sense and it was used back then. We use ascends now. Same paragraph [[?]], des an be or des on le. etc. tried everything, all combos of letters with it being a t, l, one word, 3 words, good luck! Can't find the name of this person in the last sentence. ---------- Reopened for Editing 2024-01-23 23:01:31