'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.'--[Idem, vol. vi. pp. 5, 12, 23, 110, 364, 371, 372.] 'The idea of emancipating our slaves, and _permitting them to remain within the limits of the U. S._ whether as a measure of humanity or of policy, is most decisively reprobated by universal public sentiment.... Does any man in his senses desire 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.]