ment of which will render our country obnoxious to the severest outpourings of Divine wrath—namely: Slavery.
Many ways and means have already been devised for the removal of the free black population. But there is only one correct way of removing them, and that is by colonization. The great scheme of the American Colonization Society, is the only means by which this evil ever can be eradicated from our land. That is a plan which was dictated by pure benevolence and true Christian charity, and founded in wisdom; and which is characteristic, like the magna charta of American liberty, of the great minds that originated it. Experience may suggest some modifications in some of its practical features, and doubtless will; but yet it is the true and only successful policy. It may become necessary to select some other destination than the colony of Liberia, or to require the government thereof to be administered by a functionary chosen by a congress of nations. But let what changes may come in that respect, colonization, a complete and perfect separation of the two races,[1] is the only true policy. We lay it down as a settled principle, a fixed fact, and challenge the world to refute it, that the Anglo-Saxon, and the African races, never can live harmoniously, in a
- ↑ "It is objected, that there would be injustice and inhumanity in the forcible removal of the free blacks. But not greater, we conceive, than were displayed in the removal of the Indians. These possessed a right to the soil which was prior to all others; yet did our government conceive it to be policy and justice to remove them.
