'1. It is known that a generation lasts but a little more than thirty years. The generation, then, on the stage at the commencement of the process, would virtually be extinct in a little more than ten years. 2. By the removal of the most prolific part, the annual increase would itself be diminished more than a thirtieth part, in each successive year; that is, it would be diminished in an arithmetical ratio, so that it would be reduced to nothing before the arrival of the thirtieth year.'--[American Spectator.] 'It is "a consummation devoutly to be wished," that we should get clear of the free people of color now, and as they are successively liberated, as well on their own account as ours; and I trust and hope, we shall both have the pleasure to see a moral certainty of the removal of all these poor people back to the same country from which their ancestors were taken.'--[African Repository, vol. iii. p. 311.] 'Neither do we consider liberty worth their acceptance, _unless they can be sent out of the country_. There is no doubt that a large proportion of the slaves enjoy life quite as well as those who are free.'--[Oxford (Me.) Observer.] 'It is estimated that there are 2,350,680 blacks in the United States, 339,360 of whom are free denizens of this republic. The object of this Society is THE REMOVAL OF THESE TO AFRICA.'--[New-York Standard.] 'We hope to make it for the interest of the owners, in some way, to part with their slaves;--not to be let loose among our white population, but to be carried back to the land of their fathers.'--[N. Y. Journal of Commerce.] 'If they are to be placed above their present degraded condition, they must be removed to a country where they can rise as high as any man--be eligible to any office--then you will see them rise with the rapidity of the tide.'--[Southern Religious Telegraph.] 'God has put a mark upon the black man.' ... 'The God of Nature intended they should be a _distinct_, free and independent community.'--[New-Haven Palladium.] 'We do not ask that the provisions of our Constitution and statute book should be so modified as to relieve and exalt the condition of the colored people, _whilst they remain with us_. LET THESE PROVISIONS STAND IN ALL THEIR RIGOR, to work out the ultimate and unbounded good of this people. Persuaded that their condition here is not susceptible of a radical and permanent improvement, WE WOULD DEPRECATE ANY LEGISLATION THAT SHOULD ENCOURAGE THE VAIN AND INJURIOUS HOPE OF IT.'--[Memorial of the New-York State Colonization Society.]