Emancipation and Emigration / A Plan to Transfer the Freedmen of the South to the Government Lands of the West by The Principia Club

by Anonymous

Article III.

The object of the association shall be to encourage the freedmen of the Southern States to emigrate to the Northern and Western States and Territories, and settle upon government lands, where they can be protected, and live under laws in harmony with the Constitution of the United States; or form townships of their own on the New England plan, with churches, schools, &c., according to their own predilections.