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Show The Colored Kace Question. Now York Sun. The laborious a't'-iupt to induce the colored col-ored people of the south to emigrate to Li. Iicria tiiat were begun early thU year have come to an cud, and have ended in failure. The emigration boo men held meeting in mauy state of the south, especially in Florida. Flor-ida. Louisiana and Mississippi, 'i'bey told the colored people all about the woes they endured in this country, aud all about the attraction" at-traction" of Liberia, and in midsummer they declared that hundreds of thousands of them were aflame with t!: de-ire to rush to the continent of their snc store. The movement culminated in a farcical way two montlisago when, as the grand result of their agitation, sixty-tight emigrants, most of whom were preachers with their families, sailed from this port on a trim little bark for the Afrieaiiport of Monrovia. The tale has been told. They got to Liberia: they found it to be unlike Kloriada or Alabama ; several of them raised money enough to pa their passage baek to this port, and most of the others would like to be able to do the same thing. The Liber-ian Liber-ian boom in the south has collapsed; the imigratiou boomers do not hold anymore agitation meetings; the multitudes of colored col-ored people who i ire said to be anxious to get away from this country must have changed their minds. |