on the advantages of Emigration.

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Although the Call itself strictly prohibits the introduction of the
question of emigration from the American Continent or Western
Hemisphere, the qualification which directly follows--"This
restriction has no reference to _personal_ preference, or
_individual_ enterprise"--may readily be understood. It was a mere
policy on the part of the authors of those documents, to confine
their scheme to America (including the West Indies), whilst they
were the leading advocates of the regeneration of Africa, lest they
compromised themselves and their people to the avowed enemies of
the race.

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The Convention (at Cleveland, 1854), in its Secret Sessions made,
Africa, with its rich, inexhaustible productions, and great
facilities for checking the abominable Slave Trade, its most
important point of dependence, though each individual was left to
take the direction which in his judgment best suited him. Though
our great gun was leveled, and the first shell thrown at the
American Continent, driving a slaveholding faction into despair,
and a political confusion from which they have been utterly unable
to extricate themselves, but become more and more complicated every
year, _Africa was held in reserve, until by the help of an All-wise
Providence we could effect what has just been accomplished with
signal success_--a work which the most sanguine friend of the cause
believed would require at least the half of a century.

It is a curious, and not less singular historical fact, that a
leading political journal, and the first newspaper which nominated
Mr. James Buchanan, many years ago, for the Presidency of the
United States; and at a time whilst he was yet at the court of St.
James (1854), as Envoy Extraordinary, this paper was strongly
urging his claims as such, thus expresses itself, which gives a
fair idea of the political pro-slavery press generally, especially
in Pennsylvania, Mr. Buchanan's native State. I intended to give
the article entire, as alarm will be seen even at the commencement;
but pressure for space will prevent my quoting but a few sentences.
It is from the Pittsburgh _Daily Morning Post_, Wednesday, October