e land, without disturbing
the order of society, the laws of property, or the rights of
individuals; rapidly, but legally, _silently_, _gradually_, to
drain them off; these are the noble ends of the colonization
scheme.'--[African Repository, vol. ii. p. 375.]

'Nor have I ever been able to see, for my part, why the
patronage of Congress to a benevolent and patriotic Society,
which, without interfering, in the smallest degree, with that
_delicate interest_, only aims to remove what we all consider as
a great evil--our free people of color--(and which evil _does_
interfere with that interest,) should excite the jealousy or
spleen of our most watchful and determined advocates of state
rights.'--[Idem, p. 383.]

'Recognising the constitutional and legitimate existence of
slavery, it seeks not to interfere, either directly or
indirectly, with the rights which it creates. _Acknowledging the
necessity by which its present continuance and the rigorous
provisions for its maintenance are justified_, it aims only at
furnishing the States, in which it exists, the means of
immediately lessening its severities, and of ultimately
relieving themselves from its acknowledged evils.'--[Opimius in
reply to Caius Gracchus.--African Repository, vol. iii. p. 16.]

'_It is no abolition Society_; it addresses as yet _arguments to
no master_, and disavows with horror the idea of offering
temptations to any slave. IT DENIES THE DESIGN OF ATTEMPTING
EMANCIPATION, EITHER PARTIAL OR GENERAL; it denies, with us,
that the General Government have any power to emancipate; and
declares that the States have exclusively the right to regulate
the whole subject of slavery. The scope of the Society is large
enough, but it is in nowise mingled or confounded with the broad
sweeping views of _a few fanatics_ in America, who would urge us
on to the sudden and total abolition of slavery.' * * * 'The
first great material objection is that the Society does, in
fact, in spite of its denial, meditate and conspire the
emancipation of the slaves. To the candid, let me say that there
are names on the rolls of the Society too high to be rationally
accused of the duplicity and insidious falsehood which this
implies; farther, the Society and its branches are composed, in
by far the larger part, of _citizens of sla