'Let the wise and good among us unite in removing the blacks from the country. Would it not be expedient for the properly constituted authorities to prevent the manumission of slaves in every case, unless provision is made, at the same time, to secure their removal from the country?'--[Alexandria Gazette.] 'We should be in favor of the abolition of slavery, if its abolishment could be effected with safety, and the colored population sent back to Africa; but merely to have them obtain freedom and let loose upon society, would be the greatest curse that could befal _them_ or _community_.'--[Essex Chronicle and County Republican.] 'THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY WAS NO OBJECT OF DESIRE TO HIM, UNLESS ACCOMPANIED BY COLONIZATION. So far was he from desiring it, unaccompanied by this condition, that HE WOULD NOT LIVE IN A COUNTRY WHERE THE ONE TOOK PLACE WITHOUT THE OTHER'!!!--[Mr Mercer's Speech in Congress.] In order to wipe off the reproach due to this violent expulsion, it was necessary, on the part of the Society, to find some pretext that would not only seem to justify but confer credit on the measure. Accordingly, it agreed to represent the colored inhabitants of the United States as aliens and foreigners, who, cast upon our shores by a cruel fatality, were sighing to return to their native land. 'Poor unfortunate exiles!'--how touching the appeal, how powerful the motive to assist, how likely to excite the compassion of the nation! Ah! what an air of disinterested benevolence, of generous compassion, of national attachment, must such an enterprise wear in the eyes of the world! Who that loved his own country, and deprecated an eternal absence from it, could refuse to help in restoring the unfortunate Africans to their long-estranged home? Such was, and is, and is likely to be, the artifice resorted to, in order to cover a base conspiracy, and give popularity to one of the wildest and most disgraceful crusades the world has ever witnessed. Let the following evidence suffice: 'At no very distant period, we should see all the free colored people in our land transferred to _their own country_.' * * 'Let us send them back to _their native land_.' * * 'By returning them to _their own ancient land_ of Africa, improved in knowledge and in civilization, we repay the debt which has so long been due them.'--[African Repository, vol. i. pp. 65, 146, 176.] 'And though we may not live to see the day when the sons of Africa shall have returned to _their native soil_,' &c. * * 'To found in Africa an empire of christians and republicans; to reconduct the blacks to _their native land_,' &c.--[Idem, pp. 13, 375.]