welfth Annual
Report.]

'Therefore she looked, and well might she look, to colonization
and to colonization alone. To abolition _she could not look_,
and need not look. Whatever that scheme may have done,
heretofore, in the States now free, it had done nothing and
could do nothing in the slave States for the cause of humanity.
This subject he rejoiced to know was now better understood, and
all began to see that it was _wiser_ and _safer_ to remove, by
colonization, a great and otherwise insuperable impediment to
emancipation, _than to act upon the subject of emancipation
itself_.'--[Speech of Mr Key.--Thirteenth Annual Report.]

'Our Society has nothing to do directly with the question of
slavery.' * * * 'Whilst the Society protests that it has no
designs on the rights of the master in the slave--or the
property in his slave, which the laws guarantee to him,'
&c.--[Speech of Gerrit Smith, Esq.--Fourteenth Annual Report.]

'Its primary object now is, and ever has been, to colonize, with
their own consent, free people of color on the coast of Africa,
or elsewhere, as Congress may deem expedient. And, Sir, I am
unwilling to admit, under any circumstances, and particularly in
this Hall, that it ever has swerved from this cardinal
object.'--[Speech of Mr Benham.--Fourteenth Annual Report.]

'Something he must yet be allowed to say, as regarded the object
the Society was set up to accomplish. This object, if he
understood it aright, _involved no intrusion on property_, NOR
EVEN UPON PREJUDICE.'--[Speech of Mr Archer of
Virginia.--Fifteenth Annual Report.]

'That the effort made by the Society should be such as to unite
all parts of the country--such as to be in any degree ultimately
successful, it was necessary to _disclaim all attempts for the
immediate abolition of slavery, or the instruction of the great
body of the blacks_. Such attempts would have excited alarm and
jealousy, would have been inconsistent with the public safety,
and defeated the great purposes of the Society.' * * * 'It is
pleasing to learn that the Friends, who at first were not
favorable to the Society, _having been inclined to the immediate
abolition of slavery_, are coming into what we deem the _more
wise policy_ of encouraging emancipation by
colonization.'--[Speech of Harmanus Ble