of the
United States shall cause to be issued the bonds of the United
States, as the same may, from time to time, be required by the
Secretary of the Navy to carry out the contract aforesaid."

Public sentiment, North and South, was greatly in favor of the
measure. T. J. Durant, Esq., of New Orleans, in an elaborate letter
addressed to the "Commercial Bulletin" of New Orleans, under date of
September 12, 1850, answered objections, and warmly urged the passage
of the bill. The Chaplain of the U. S. Senate, Rev. R. R. Gurley,
wrote a letter on the 10th of October, 1850, to George N. Saunders,
Esq., urging the measure as of paramount importance to both America
and Africa. The press of the country generally endorsed the bill, and
commented upon the general good to follow in numerous editorials. A
scheme of such gigantic proportions poorly set forth the profound
thought that harassed the public mind in regard to the crime of
keeping men in slavery. A few extracts from the papers will suffice to
show how the matter was regarded.

EXTRACTS FROM THE PRESS.

"The Report of the Naval Committee to the House of
Representatives in favor of the establishment of a line of mail
steam-ships to the Western Coast of Africa, and thence via the
Mediterranean to London, has been received by the public press
throughout the Union with the warmest expressions of approbation.
The Whig, Democratic, and neutral papers of the North and South,
in the slave-holding and non-slave-holding States, with a very
few exceptions, appear to vie with each other in pressing its
consideration upon the public attention. This earnest and almost
unanimous support of the measure by the organs of public opinion,
without respect to party or section, shows the deep hold which
the objects it proposes to effect have upon the public favor.
Those objects are to promote the emigration of free persons of
color from this country to Liberia; also to increase the steam
navy, and to extend the commerce of the United States,--all, it
will be almost universally conceded, desirable objects. The
desirableness of the objects being admitted, the question is,
does the mode proposed for promoting them recommend itself to the
sanction of Congress? We are forced to the conclusion that it
does. We are aware that while all agree as to the expediency of
increasi