acuum to be
created.

With regard to the expense--1, much will be saved by voluntary
emancipations, increasing under the influence of example, and the
prospect of bettering the lot of the slaves; 2, much may be
expected in gifts and legacies from the opulent, the
philanthropic, and the conscientious; 3, more still from
legislative grants by the States, of which encouraging examples
and indications have already appeared; 4, nor is there any room
for despair of aid from the indirect or direct proceeds of the
public lands held in trust by Congress. With a sufficiency of
pecuniary means, the facility of providing a naval transportation
of the exiles is shewn by the present amount of our tonnage and
the promptitude with which it can be enlarged; by the number of
emigrants brought from Europe to N. America within the last
year, and by the greater number of slaves which have been, within
single years, brought from the coast of Africa across the
Atlantic.

In the attainment of adequate asylums, the difficulty, though it
may be considerable, is far from being discouraging. Africa is
justly the favorite choice of the patrons of colonization; and
the prospect there is flattering--1, in the territory already
acquired; 2, in the extent of coast yet to be explored, and which
may be equally convenient; 3, the adjacent interior into which
the littoral settlements can be expanded under the auspices of
physical affinities between the new comers and the natives, and
of the moral superiorities of the former; 4, the great inland
regions now ascertained to be accessible by navigable waters, and
opening new fields for colonizing enterprises.

But Africa, though the primary, is not the sole asylum within
contemplation; an auxiliary one presents itself in the islands
adjoining this continent, where the coloured population is
already dominant, and where the wheel of revolution may from time
to time produce the like result.

Nor ought another contingent receptable for emancipated slaves to
be altogether overlooked. It exists within the territory under
the control of the United States, and is not too distant to be
out of reach, whilst sufficiently distant to avoid, for an
indefinite period, the collisions to be apprehended from the
vicinity of people