PRINTED LETTER FROM W. McLAIN, SECRETARY OF THE AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY, COLONIZATION ROOMS, WASHINGTON CITY, NOVEMBER 1, 1848, DISCLOSING "THE PECULIAR CONDITION IN WHICH WE FIND OURSELVES," AND MAKING "AN EARNEST APPEAL TO ALL OUR FRIENDS AND A BENEVOLENT PUBLIC GENERALLY FOR ASSISTANCE.

Washington D.C., 1848. Printed broadside document, signed in type by McLain, "In behalf of the Society." A couple of short, blank edge chips. Clean horizontal closed tear expertly repaired without loss. Good+.

The Society advocated colonization as the solution to the "problem" of Free Negroes in America. The Society attracted support from numerous slaveholders, who viewed the status of Free Negroes as a threat to the stability of Slave Institutions. Secretary McLain reports on the Society's activities.
In the last year "we have actually sent 443 emigrants to Liberia, and have received application to send from Baltimore 95 more, and from New Orleans 472 more." Additionally, 567 are "waiting for a passage," 415 of whom "are slaves, the freedom, of most of whom, depends upon their emigration to Liberia!