Thoughts on African Colonization

Excerpt: ...in the main, be a degraded order, hanging loosely upon society.'-Idem. 'The slaves are in their possession-they are entailed upon them by their ancestors. And can they set them free, and still suffer them to remain in the country? Would this be policy?-Would it be safe? NO. When they can be transported to the soil from whence they were derived-by the aid of the Colonization Society, by government, by individuals, or by any other means-then let them be emancipated, and not before.'-Lowell (Mass.) Telegraph. 'Avarice and iniquity have torn from that injured continent, within thirty years, no less than 1,500,000 slaves; and cannot humanity, religion, and justice, restore an equal number in the same time? If we desire to accomplish this work, it is plain that we can do it, and that too with a sum contemptible when compared with the magnitude of the evil.'-Address of Gabriel P. Disosway. 'We thank God that the ultimate accomplishment of the great scheme of colonization is now placed beyond a doubt, in Maryland; and that the day is not even distant when the whole of our colored population will have transferred themselves, by our assistance, from slavery or degradation here, to peace, and plenty, and power, and prosperity, and liberty, and independence, in a land which Providence originally gave them.'-Baltimore Gazette. Pg 115 'It tends, and may powerfully tend, to rid us gradually and entirely, in the United States, of slaves and slavery: a great moral and political evil, of increasing virulence and extent, from which much mischief is now felt, and very great calamity in future is justly apprehended.'-First Annual Report. 'What can be done to mitigate or prevent the existing and apprehended evils, resulting from our black population? EMANCIPATION, WITHOUT REMOVAL FROM THE COUNTRY, IS OUT OF THE QUESTION.' 'As long as our present feelings and prejudices exist, the abolition of slavery cannot be...