Georgia. Concerning his service as agent for the _Voice of Missions_, the
reporter says:

He secured a number of subscribers and visited them once a month to
collect the installments. In order to insure regular payments it was
necessary to keep up enthusiasm, which was prone to wane, and Charles
consequently became an active and continual preacher of the propaganda
of hatred. Whatever may have been his private sentiments at the outset,
this constant harping on one string must eventually have had a powerful
effect upon his own mind.

Exactly how he received his remuneration is uncertain, but he told
several of his friends that he got a "big commission." Incidentally he
solicited subscribers for a Negro paper called the _Voice of the
Missions_, and when he struck a Negro who did not want to go to Africa
himself, he begged contributions for the "good of the cause."

In the course of time Charles developed into a fanatic on the subject of
the Negro oppression and neglected business to indulge in wild tirades
whenever he could find a listener. He became more anxious to make
converts than to obtain subscribers, and the more conservative darkies
began to get afraid of him. Meanwhile he got into touch with certain
agitators in the North and made himself a distributing agent for their
literature, a great deal of which he gave away. Making money was a
secondary consideration to "the cause."

One of the most enthusiastic advocates of the Liberian scheme is the
colored Bishop H.M. Turner, of Atlanta. Turner is a man of unusual
ability, has been over to Africa personally several times, and has made
himself conspicuous by denouncing laws which he claimed discriminated