liberal protection to strangers; which has induced us to
recommend to you, to exercise your best endeavors, to collect
monies to secure the purchase of lands in the Canadas, for those
who may by oppressive legislative enactments be obliged to move
thither.

"In contributing to our brethren that aid which will secure them
a refuge in a storm, we would not wish to be understood as
possessing any inclination to remove, nor in the least to
impoverish, that noble sentiment which we rejoice in exclaiming--

"This is _our_ own,
Our native land.

"All that we have done, humanity dictated it; neither inclination
nor alienated feelings to our country prescribed it, but that
power which is above all other considerations, viz.: the law of
necessity.

"We yet anticipate in the moral strength of this nation, a final
redemption from those evils that have been illegitimately
entailed on us as a people. We yet expect, by due exertions on
our part, together with the aid of the benevolent philanthropists
of our country, to acquire a moral and intellectual strength that
will unshaft the calumnious darts of our adversaries, and present
to the world a general character that they will feel bound to
respect and admire.

"It will be seen by a reference to our proceedings, that we have
again recommended the further prosecution of the contemplated
college, proposed by the last Convention, to be established at
New Haven, under the rules and regulations then established. A
place for its location will be selected in a climate and
neighborhood where the inhabitants are less prejudiced to our
rights and privileges. The proceedings of the citizens of New
Haven, with regard to the erection of the college, were a
disgrace to them, and cast a stigma on the reputed fame of New
England and the country. We are unwilling that the character of
the whole country should sink by the proceedings of a few. We are
determined to present to another portion of the country not far
distant, and at no very remote period, the opportunity of
gaining for them the character of a truly philanthropic spirit,
and of retrieving the character of the country, by the
disreputable proceedings of New Haven. We must have colleges and
high-schools on the manual-labor