Calhoun on the colored race. This organization hoped to return the free Negroes to Africa and undertook to prepare professional leaders of their race for the Liberian colony. Exceptionally bright youths were to be given special training as catechists, teachers, preachers and physicians. Not much was said about the young blood they were doing, the young blood now and then appeared notices of Negroes who had been prepared privately in the South or publicly in the North for service in Liberia. William Taylor and Dr. Fleet were thus educated in the District of Columbia. In the same way John V.