Although recognizing the disabilities and hardships of the South both to the whites and the blacks, he could not believe that the elimination of the Negroes would, if practicable, give relief.[6] The _Boston Herald_ inquired whether it was worth while to send away a laboring population in the absence of whites to take its place and referred to the misfortunes of Spain which undertook to carry out such a scheme.

Speaking the real truth, _The Milwaukee Journal_ said that no one needed to expect any appreciable decrease in the black population through any possible emigration, no matter how successful it might be.
"The Negro," said the editor, "is here to stay and our institutions must be adapted to comprehend him and develop his possibilities." _The Colored American_, then the leading Negro organ of thought in the United States, believed that the Negroes should be thankful to Senator Morgan for his attitude on emigration, because he might succeed in deporting to Africa those Negroes who affect to believe that this is not their home and the more quickly we get rid of such foolhardy people the better it will be for the stalwart of the race.[7] A number of Negroes, however, under the inspiration of leaders[8] like Bishop H.M.Turner, did not feel that the race had a fair chance in the United States.

A few of them emigrated to Wapimo, Mexico; but, becoming dissatisfied with the situation there, they returned to their homes in Georgia and Alabama in 1895.

The coming of the Negroes into Mexico caused suspicion and excitement.

A newspaper, _El Tiempo_, which had been denouncing lynching in the United States, changed front when these Negroes arrived in that country.
Going in quest of new opportunities and desiring to reenforce the civilization of Liberia, 197 other Negroes sailed from Savannah, Georgia, for Liberia, March 19, 1895.