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Wanting to go to Liberia, 1854

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Got Enough Of It.

We learn from the Mail that “the negroes manumitted by a gentleman of Jefferson Co., Va., some forty in number, whose passage through this place on their way to Chambersburg, Pa., was the cause of remark, have gotten tired of their Pennsylvania acquaintances and returned to their former home — with the view of going to Liberia.”       

Freed slaves, Liberia or leave, 1832

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COLOURED POPULATION.

A bill relating to this class of persons has passed the House of Delegates, The chief features of it, are

Those, already Free may remain but if they will go Voluntarily, they will be furnished with the means of going to Liberia. Those hereafter to be set Free, must go out of the State, or be sent out, except they renounce their freedom for the sake of remaining with their friends.