very, 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."

5. Extracts from the speech of Geo. Washington Park Curtis at
the 14th Annual meeting of the Amer. Col. Soc., Af. Repy.,
vol. 6. page 371-2. "Some benevolent minds in the
overflowings of their philanthropy, advocate amalgamation of
the two classes, saying, let the colored classes be freed and
remain among us as denizens of the empire; surely all classes
of mankind are alike descended from the primitive parentage
of Eden, then why not intermingle in one common society as
friends and brothers. No, Sir; no. I hope to prove, at no
very distant day, that a Southron can make sacrifices for the
cause of Colonization beyond seas, but for a Home Department
in those matters, I repeat no, Sir; no. What right, I demand,
have the children of Africa to a homestead in the white man's
country?

"If, as is most true, the crimes of the white man robbed
Africa of her sons, let atonement be made by returning the
descendants of the stolen to the clime of their ancestors,
and then all the claims of redeeming justice will have been
discharged. There let centuries of future rights, atone for
centuries of past wrongs. Let the regenerated African rise to
Empire; nay, let Genius flourish, and Philosophy shed its
mild beams to enlighten and instruct the posterity of Ham,
returning 'redeemed and disenthralled' from their long
captivity in the new world. But, Sir, be all these benefits
enjoyed by the African race under the shade of their native
palms. Let the Atlantic billow heave its high and everlasting
barrier between their country and ours. Let this fair land
which the white man won by his chivalry, which he has adorned
by the arts and elegancies of polished life, be kept sacred
for his descendants, untarnished by the footprint of him who
hath ever been a slave."

6. Mr. Henry Clay's speech, before the Society, January 1st,
1818--2d Annual