cy, already
referred to, _and justified by the necessity from which it
sprung_, the laws of Virginia have prohibited emancipation
within the limits of the State, but on condition of the early
removal of the individual emancipated.' * * 'While hundreds,
perhaps we might say thousands, of the free colored people, are
seeking a passage to Liberia; hundreds who hold slaves, would
willingly set them at liberty, were the means of their removal
provided. And till those means are provided, the liberation of
the slave would neither be a blessing to himself, nor the
public. His liberty under any circumstances may be a debt due,
in the abstract, to the claims of human nature; but when applied
to him individually, it would be a calamity. We cannot conceive
of a more deplorable state of society, than what our
slaveholding states would present, with their black population
afloat, without a home, without the means of subsistence, and
without those self-relying habits, which might lead them to
obtain an independent livelihood. _It is not therefore incumbent
upon those who hold slaves, to set them at liberty, till some
means are provided for their removal, or at least for their
subsistence._ They owe it neither to themselves, to their
country, nor the unfortunate beings around them.' * * * 'Those
slaves still in my possession, I cannot conscientiously
emancipate, unless they shall be removed by the Society to
Liberia.'--[Idem, vol. v. pp. 20, 53, 89, 177.]

'If the question were submitted, whether there should be either
immediate or gradual emancipation of all the slaves in the
United States, _without their removal or colonization_, painful
as it is to express the opinion, I HAVE NO DOUBT THAT IT WOULD
BE UNWISE TO EMANCIPATE THEM.' * * 'Is our posterity doomed to
endure forever not only all the ills flowing from the state of
slavery, but all which arise from incongruous elements of
population, separated from each other by invincible prejudices,
and by natural causes? Whatever may be the character of the
remedy proposed, we may confidently pronounce it inadequate,
unless it provides efficaciously for the _total_ and _absolute_
separation, by an extensive space of water or of land, at least,
of the white portion of our population from that, which is free,
of the colored.' * * 'Who, if