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XIII, p. 117.] [Footnote 11: _The African Repository_, IX, pp. 86-88.] [Footnote 12: _Ibid._, IX, p. 88.] [Footnote 13: "If something is not done, and soon done," said he, "we shall be the murderers of our own children. The '_murmura venturos nautis prudentia ventos_' has already reached us (from Santo Domingo); the revolutionary storm, now sweeping the globe will be upon us, and happy if we make timely provision to give it an easy passage over our land. From the present state of things in Europe and America, the day which begins our combustion must be near at hand; and only a single spark is wanting to make that day to-morrow. If we had begun sooner, we might probably have been allowed a lengthier operation to clear ourselves, but every day's delay lessens the time we may take for emancipation." As to the mode of emancipation, he was satisfied that that must be a matter of compromise between the passions, the prejudices, and the real difficulties which would each have its weight in that operation. He believed that the first chapter of this history, which was begun in St. Domingo, and the next succeeding ones, would recount how all the whites were driven from all the other islands. This, he thought, would prepare their minds for a peaceable accommodation between justice and policy; and furnish an answer to the difficult question, as to where the colored emigrants should go. He urged that the country put some plan under way, and the sooner it did so the greater would be the hope that it might be permitted to proceed peaceably toward consummation.--See Ford edition of _Jefferson's Writings_, VI, p. 349, VII, pp. 167, 168.] [Footnote 14: _Letter of Mr. Stanbury Boyce;_ and _The African Repository._] [Footnote 15: _Philadelphia Gazette,_ Aug. 2, 3, 4, 8, 1842; _United States Gazette,_ Aug. 2-5, 1842; and the _Pennsylvanian,_ Aug. 2, 3, 4, 8, 1842.] [Footnote 16: _The African Repository_, XVI, pp. 113-115.] [Footnote 17: _The African Repository,_ XXI, p. 114.] [Footnote 18: _The African Repository,_ XVI, p. 116.] [Footnote 19: _The African Repository,_ XVI, p. 115.] [Footnote 20: _Ibid.,_ XVI, p. 116.] [Footnote 21: Speaking of this colony Kingsley said: "About eighteen months ago, I carried my son George Kingsley, a healthy colored man of uncorrupted morals, about thirty years of age, tolerably well educated, of very industrious habits, and a native of Florida, together with six prime African men,
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