[256] _Niles' Register_, XIV, 321. Thomas Doan, Aaron Coppock, James Boyd, Joseph Coin, and Elihu Embree signed such a statement. [257] Jesse Torrey, Jr., "A Portraiture of Domestic Slavery, in the United States: with Reflections on the Practicability of Restoring the Moral Rights of the Slave, without Impairing the Legal Privileges of the Possessor; and a Project of a Colonial Asylum for Free Persons of Colour: including Memoirs of Facts on the Interior Traffic in Slaves, and on Kidnapping" (Philadelphia, 1817), 27-30. [258] _Niles' Register_, XIII, 180. [259] "Documentary History of American Industrial Society," II, 157, 158. [260] _African Repository_, I, 23. [261] See the Western Courier (Louisville, Kentucky), for October 26, 1815. [262] Paul Cuffe manuscripts in the Public Library, New Bedford, Mass. Paul Cuffe to Samuel C. Aiken, August 7, 1816; Paul Cuffe to Jedekiah Morse, August 10, 1816. [263] _Ibid._, Robert Finley to Paul Cuffe, December 5, 1816, Finley asked that the reply if mailed to him at Washington be sent in care of his brother-in-law, Elias B. Caldwell. [264] _Ibid._, Paul Cuffe to Robert Finley, January 8, 1817. [265] Printed in Brown, _Finley_, 66 ff. The pamphlet was written before he came to Washington. [266] Spring, "Memoir of Mills," 131. [267] Massachusetts Historical Society, _Proceedings_, First Series, XIX, 20. [268] _African Repository_, I, 2, 3. Referring to Caldwell in an address at an annual meeting of the Society, January 20, 1827, Clay said: "It is now a little upwards of ten years since a religious, amiable and benevolent resident of this city, first conceived the idea of planting a colony, from the United States, of free people of color, on the western shores of Africa. He is no more, and the noblest eulogy that could be pronounced on him would be to inscribe upon his tomb, the merited epitaph, 'Here lies the projector of the American Colonization Society.'" Clay was historically mistaken. Similar things were said of Mills and Finley. This speech may be found in pamphlet form in the Library of the Ohio Historical and Philosophical Society. [269] Spring, "Memoir of Mills," 131, 139, 140. [270] Brown, _Finley_, 65, 66. [271] _Ibid._, "A Respectable Resident of the District of Columbia to Brown," 64, 65. [272] Sunderland, "Liberian Colonization," _Liberian Bulletin_, No. 16, 19. [273] Virginia Historical Society, Collections, VI, 26; _Niles' Register_, XI, 296. [274] _Niles' Register_, XI, 296. [275] Manuscript Record of the Meeting, Library of Congress. Copy furnished by the American Colonization Society. [276] The _National Intelligencer_ reported the meeting. The substance of Clay's remarks is printed in Archibald Alexander, "A History of Colonization on the Western Coast of Africa" (Philadelphia, 1849), 77-82; in J. Tracy, "A View of Exertions Lately Made for the Purpose of Colonizing the Free People of Color in the United States, in Africa, or Elsewhere" (Washington, 1817), 4 ff.