Excerpt from A Summer on the Borders of the Caribbean SeaThis latter Opinion is shared by many intelligent public men in this country, of whom Francis P. Blair, Jr., of Missouri, Senator Doolittle, of Wis consin, and Senator Bingham, Of Michigan, are the most conspicuous. They believe that the emigra tion of free colored people, protected by the United States, -into some region of propitious climate and beyond the taint of prejudice against color, would have the most important practical influence upon the question of emancipation in this country, and of the consequent restoration of the colored race to the respect of the world.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.