elf his counsel.

The following extracts of speeches made in the Capitol at Washington,
at the eleventh annual meeting of the Colonization Society, in which
slaveholders themselves made remarks which, it was urged by the
defendant's counsel, were quite as strong, and as much calculated to
excite sedition, as the words of the libel charged against the prisoner.
Mr. Key read the parts of his own speech not enclosed in brackets, to
show the difference of meaning in the whole papers, and the difference
of intent. The paragraph in brackets was read by Mr. Bradley.

The following is from Mr. Harrison's speech:

"But a dearer land to our hearts is too to be regenerated. A wretched
class, cursed with ineffectual freedom, is to be made free indeed, and
an outlet is to be opened to those who will voluntarily disencumber
themselves of the evil and the threatening ruin of another domestic
pestilence. Public opinion must be the only agent in this: the most
reluctant shall not be forced; the most timid shall not be alarmed by
any thing we are to do. Hitherto and henceforward our plan has been and
shall be without constraint on any one, and never shall we offer any
argument or invitation to humanity divorced from patriotism. To this
truly quiet, unofficious spirit, do I trust for bringing about the time
when we shall be one homogeneous nation of freemen; when those great
principles now true of us only in part, shall be true in the whole;
and when the clear light now in our upper sky only, shall brighten the
whole expanse of the American character."

The speech of Mr. Key, the District Attorney, is as follows:

"On behalf of the Board of Managers, who had this night seen and heard
all that was calculated to animate them to a faithful discharge of
their duties, he begged leave to present a resolution of thanks for
the zealous co-operation of the Auxiliary Societies throughout the
United States. In the increasing exertions of these valuable branches
of the parent Institution, the Society believed itself to possess
the most satisfactory pledge that its design had received the
approbation, and would ere long enjoy the support of the great body
of citizens throughout our country. Such an anticipation was not to
be thought delusive, because the opposition made to the Society at
its commencement still continued. On the contrary, this very opposition,
properly considered, affords the fullest proof of the wisdom of our
object, and the fair