aiming, as we emphatically do, a wish or desire to interpose
our opinions and feelings between the plan of colonization and the
judgment of those whose wisdom as far as exceeds ours as their
situations are exalted above ours, we humbly, respectfully, and
fervently intreat and beseech your disapprobation of the plan of
colonization now offered by the American Society for colonizing the
free people of color of the United States. Here in the city of
Philadelphia, where the voice of the suffering sons of Africa was
first heard; where was first commenced the work of abolition, on
which heaven has smiled, for it could have had success only from the
Great Maker; will not a purpose be assisted which will state the
cause of the entire abolition of slavery in the United States, and
which may defeat it altogether; which proffers to those who do not
ask for them what it calls benefits, but which they consider
injurious and which must insure to the multitudes whose prayers can
only reach you through us, misery, sufferings, and perpetual slavery.

"James Forten, _Chairman_,

"Russell Parrott, _Secretary_."

[8] Garrison, "Thoughts on Colonization," p. 10.

[9] _The African Repository_, II, 295 _et seq._

[10] It must be borne in mind, too, that _The African Repository_, in which
appeared most of the letters of Negroes favoring emigration to Africa, was
the organ of the American Colonization Society.

[11] _The African Repository_, VII, 216.

[12] Ibid., XII, 149-150.

[13] During these years conditions were becoming intolerable for the free
blacks in the South.

[14] _The African Repository_, VII, 230.

[15] Colonization Society Letters, 1832.

[16] _The African Repository_, XXIII, 190.

[17] Colonization Society Letters, 1848-1851.

[18] _The African Repository_, XXVI, 276.

[19] Ibid., XXVI, 194.

[20] Ibid., XXVIII, (July 12, 1848).

[21] Colonization Society Letters, 1831, _passim._

[22] Letter of T. H. Gallaudet in the Colonization Society Letters, 1831.

[23] Jay, "An Inquiry into the Character and Tendencies of the American
Colonization Society," 28 _et passim._

[24] Garrison, "Thoughts on African Colonization," 22.

[25] Garrison, "Thoughts on Colonization," 22.

[26] Ibid., 23.

[27] Ibid., 11.

[28] The resolutions were as follows:

"_Resolved_, That this meeting contemplate, with lively interest, the