k at the facts. Nearly two millions of this
unhappy people tread our soil. In the Southern climate their increase is
more rapid than that of the whites. What is the natural result, if some
means are not applied to prevent it? What is now, compared to our own
population, but as a mole hill, will become a mountain, threatening with
its volcanic dangers all within its reach. What is the next consequence?
Why, as in the slave colonies of other countries, you must have an army
of troops to keep in awe this dangerous population. What a sight would
this be in a land of liberty! The same breeze that fanned our harvests,
that played among the leaves of the cane and the corn, would also rustle
banners of war! By the side of implements of agriculture, employed in
the works of peace, will appear the gleam of arms. Shall it be said that
we are not liable to the same vicissitudes that have overtaken other
nations? No, sir; we are operated upon by the same circumstances to
which other nations have been subjected.--The same causes will produce
the same effects, as long as the nature of man is unchanged, in every
clime.

"I trust, sir, that the march of mind is now upon its glorious way. I
trust that the minds of all have been sufficiently opened to the true
interest and glory of the country, to agree with me, that this is no
fitting place for the slave. That this country must, at some future
time, be consecrated to freemen alone. There are many individuals in the
Southern country, of which I am a native, who predict that the plan must
fail. They say we shall go on and partially succeed, that a portion of
the black population will go out to the colony, and after residing there
a short time, become discontented, when the plan must be given up--and
that the evil which we have endeavored to remove will be only the worse
for our exertion to obviate it. But this, sir, will not hold true. It
was, as it were, but a few day since, a small number of individuals were
thrown upon the shores of Africa. And what is the result? Here let it be
said--in the palace of legislation--that this people, but just now a
handful, are rising to consequence, and to a capability of the enjoyment
of political and civil rights;--and let us say to those who doubt--this
is the evidence in favor of our plan! Ought not this to join all hearts,
and call forth renewed exertions from those whose labors have thus far
been crowned with unexpected success?

"May not this be