'Is it either safe or prudent to retain amongst us a large population, on whom we can place no reliance, but from the control which the laws exercise over it? Can this class be animated by any feelings of patriotism towards a country by which they feel themselves oppressed?'--[Ninth Annual Report.] 'Colonization, to be correct, must be beyond seas.--Emancipation, _with the liberty to remain on this side of the Atlantic_, IS BUT AN ACT OF DREAMY MADNESS!'--[Thirteenth Annual Report.] 'Has our country the resources demanded for the accomplishment of an object of such magnitude? The transportation of more than two millions of souls to a remote country is indeed an object of formidable aspect. It obviously cannot be accomplished at once. But that the number can be gradually diminished, _till utterly extinguished_, may be made to appear, it is believed, from a little arithmetical calculation....' 'It has been said that the entire shipping of the country, both public and private, would hardly be competent for an object of this magnitude. But careful calculation has proved, that one eighteenth of the mercantile shipping alone, entirely devoted to the enterprise, is competent to carry it into complete consummation. And why might not our brilliant and growing _navy_ aid to some extent the humane and patriotic cause? If necessary, why might not _the marine of other lands_ be chartered? Strange indeed it is if shipping enough could be found half a century ago to reduce hundreds of thousands of this race in a single year to a wretched vassalage, and in this age of augmented light, and wealth, and improvement in every art, enough cannot be found for the single benevolent object before us!'--[Rev. Baxter Dickinson's Sermon delivered in Springfield in 1829.]