e
this population to remain among us? If the whole community could
reply, IT WOULD RESPOND IN ONE UNIVERSAL NEGATIVE.'--[Idem, vol.
vii. pp. 230, 231.]

'In reflecting on the utility of a plan for colonizing the free
people of color, with whom our country abounds, it is natural
that we should be first struck by its tendency to confer a
benefit on ourselves, _by ridding us of a population_ for the
most part idle and useless, and too often vicious and
mischievous.... All emancipation, to however small an extent,
_which permits the persons emancipated to remain in this
country_, is an evil, which must increase with the increase of
the operation, and would become altogether intolerable, if
extended to the whole, or even to a very large part, of the
black population. I am therefore strongly opposed to
emancipation, in every shape and degree, _unless accompanied by
colonization_.'--[First Annual Report.]

'They will annex the condition that the emancipated SHALL LEAVE
THE COUNTRY.'--[Second Annual Report.]

'They require that the _whole mass_ of free persons of color,
and those who may become such with the consent of their owners,
_should be progressively removed_ from among us, as fast as
their own consent can be obtained, and as the means can be found
for their removal and for their proper establishment in Africa.
Nothing short of this progressive but complete removal can
accomplish the great objects of this measure, in relation to the
security, prosperity, and happiness of the United
States.'--[Seventh Annual Report.]

'Is it either safe or prudent to retain amongst us a large
population, on whom we can place no reliance, but from the
control which the laws exercise over it? Can this class be
animated by any feelings of patriotism towards a country by
which they feel themselves oppressed?'--[Ninth Annual Report.]

'Colonization, to be correct, must be beyond seas.--Emancipation,
_with the liberty to remain on this side of the Atlantic_, IS
BUT AN ACT OF DREAMY MADNESS!'--[Thirteenth Annual Report.]

'Has our country the resources demanded for the accomplishment
of an object of such magnitude? The transportation of more than
two millions of souls to a remote country is indeed an object of
formidable aspect. It obviously cannot be accomplished at once.