3. Extracts from an address delivered at Springfield, before
the Hamden Col. Society, July 4th, 1828. By Wm. B. O.
Peabody, Esq. published by request of the Society. Af. Repy.,
vol. 4. page 226. "I am not complaining of the owners of
Slaves; they cannot get rid of them; it would be as humane to
throw them from the decks in the middle passage, as to set
them free in our country." Upon which the following eulogy is
pronounced, page 230. "We need hardly say that Mr. Peabody's
address is an excellent one. May its spirit universally
pervade and animate the minds of our countrymen.
4. Extracts from an Address to the Col. Socy. of Kentucky, at
Frankfort, Dec. 17th., 1829, by the Hon. Henry Clay. Af.
Repy., vol. 6, page 5. "If the question were submitted,
whether there should be 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 it would be unwise to emancipate them. For I believe
that the aggregate of the evils which would be engendered in
Society, upon the supposition of such general emancipation,
and of the liberated slaves remaining promiscuously among us,
would be greater than all the evils of Slavery, great as they
unquestionably are."
Again, page 12. "Is there no remedy, I again ask, for the
evils of which I have sketched a faint and imperfect picture?
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."
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?
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