peace.' * * * 'The sole object of the Society, as
declared at its institution, and from which it can never be
allowed to depart, is 'to remove with their own consent, to the
coast of Africa, the free colored population, now existing in
the United States, and such as hereafter may become free.'' * * *
'In pursuing their object, therefore, (although such
consequences may result from a successful prosecution of it,)
the Society cannot be justly charged with aiming to disturb the
rights of property or the peace of society. Your memorialists
refer with confidence to the course they have pursued, in the
prosecution of their object for nine years past, to shew that it
is possible, without danger or alarm, to carry on such an
operation, notwithstanding its supposed relation to the subject
of slavery, and that they have not been regardless, in any of
their measures, of what was due to the state of society in which
they live. They are, themselves, chiefly slaveholders, and live,
with all the ties of life binding them to a slaveholding
community. They know when to speak and when to forbear upon
topics connected with this painful and difficult subject. They
put forth no passionate appeals before the public, seek to
excite no feeling, and avoid, with the most sedulous care, every
measure that would endanger the public tranquillity.' * * * 'The
managers could, with no propriety, depart from their original
and avowed purpose, _and make emancipation their object_. And
they would further say, that if they were not thus restrained by
the terms of their association, they would still consider any
attempts to promote the increase of the free colored population
by manumission, _unnecessary_, _premature_, and _dangerous_.'
* * * 'It seems now to be admitted that, whatever has any bearing
upon that question, must be managed with the utmost
consideration; that the peace and order of society must not be
endangered by indiscreet and ill-timed efforts to promote
emancipation; and that a true regard should be manifested to the
feelings and the fears, and even the _prejudices_ of those,
whose co-operation is essential.'--[Memorial of the Society to
the several States.--A. R. vol. ii. pp. 57, 58, 60.]

'To found in Africa an empire of _christians and republicans_;
to reconduct the blacks to their nativ