[[return]]69. Ibid., XXIV, 243.
[[return]]70. Mr. Washington had been active in securing the assistance of a few men of superior ability and high ideals and finally entered into negotiations with the authorities for a tract of land in Mexico on which he proposed to colonize the free Negroes of the United States, but the war in that country prevented the execution of the plan. He was compelled finally to abandon the plan of a separate state in America, but gave all his time, voice and pen and means to the cause of emigration to Liberia. See New York Tribune, -----, and The African Repository, XXVII, 259.
[[return]]71. Anthony Bowen, who was at that time a messenger in the Patent Office at Washington, D.C., was the uncle of Nathaniel Bowen. See The African Repository, XXVIII, 164.
[[return]]72. The African Repository, XXI, 285.
[[return]]73. The Cincinnati Gazette, July 14, 1841.
[[return]]74. Stebbins, "Facts and Opinions Touching the Real Origin, Character and Influence of the American Colonization Society," 200-201.
[[return]]75. The Baltimore Sun, July 27, 28 and 29, 1852.
[[return]]76. Stebbins, "Facts and Opinions, etc.," 200-201.
[[return]]77. Cromwell, "The Negro in American History," 42.
[[return]]78. The North Star, 1853.