"The refugees' tales collected by the Belgian commission and declared by them to be the result of an impartial investigation bear a stamp which makes them unworthy of belief.

In 1852 Mrs. Laura S. Haviland was secured to teach the school of the colony of "Refugees' Home," where the colored people had built a structure "for school and meeting purposes."

The school at Chatham was conducted by Alfred Whipper, a colored man, that at Windsor by Mary E. Bibb, the wife of Henry Bibb, the founder of the Refugees' Home Settlement, and that at Sandwich by Mary Ann Shadd, of Delaware.

The state of the refugees' homes all depended upon the chances of war.

When "Harvard, 1914," who had lent a hand in the American refugees' trials, appeared in Hoover's office to volunteer for the new campaign, Hoover said: "You are going to Rotterdam to-night."