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Show Mtlklmr llii.lne.. Talent. Who tlull any that tlm colored man It deficient in builiits taltiit nftirreal iug of (ho gifted way In which tho negru agent of a company lu Wiuhlngton hat tUludeil his brethren la tho west anl south? The company is cuuiposcl altogether alto-gether of culond men, on 1 It colled tho United Slates an 1 Congo National Emigration Em-igration soclet)." Tills coiuiany prinled circulars whu.i vrero dlitributed smouj tho southern negroes by n colored preacher luimeil Iter. Thoniu Piuk. Ilev. Thomas ickcl about him with lilt armful of clrcuhri till lis do Idod whero to find the mott Ignorant Ig-norant ami eadly gulled of hit own race, ati 1 then ho went to work among them Tho circular toll that tb United State nn 1 Congo ooniptny was prepared to offir special rates and iudncomenla lo all colored ryioplo who desired tu gi) bock to their ancettral Africa und be klugt among dogt, ur words to that effect. ef-fect. There tltey could mako Homo howl hy vlrluo of their olt llltatlou nnd mirxrlorlt)'. Thoro they could is) nil that tho whltu man was In Aiuerct, anl luro no trouble. Thoso dcslriuir thus toinnko n liitmiphnnt eutry Ititu ths dark totttlnent thoiil I Imlotn l and a two ceut stamp to the United HtatM and Congo Xationd 1 jnlgrutlon society, Itev, Thomas l'oak olded on hla own account ac-count that everybody whu paid l would bo eutltledtaa ckar trip from hit home tiAfrha anl a big farm lu Africa besides. Nuinbtra of negroes bit at tho deluthe bait, and the cotnjisii) was In a fair way toreallu onitsgenlui, wlun tlw schime was discovered, not however, till many hul paid tlulr little dollars. |