'Its primary object now is, and ever has been, to colonize, with their own consent, free people of color on the coast of Africa, or elsewhere, as Congress may deem expedient. And, Sir, I am unwilling to admit, under any circumstances, and particularly in this Hall, that it ever has swerved from this cardinal object.'--[Speech of Mr Benham.--Fourteenth Annual Report.] 'Something he must yet be allowed to say, as regarded the object the Society was set up to accomplish. This object, if he understood it aright, _involved no intrusion on property_, NOR EVEN UPON PREJUDICE.'--[Speech of Mr Archer of Virginia.--Fifteenth Annual Report.] 'That the effort made by the Society should be such as to unite all parts of the country--such as to be in any degree ultimately successful, it was necessary to _disclaim all attempts for the immediate abolition of slavery, or the instruction of the great body of the blacks_. Such attempts would have excited alarm and jealousy, would have been inconsistent with the public safety, and defeated the great purposes of the Society.' * * * 'It is pleasing to learn that the Friends, who at first were not favorable to the Society, _having been inclined to the immediate abolition of slavery_, are coming into what we deem the _more wise policy_ of encouraging emancipation by colonization.'--[Speech of Harmanus Bleecker, Esq. at the Second Anniversary Meeting of the New-York Colonization Society, April 14, 1831.] 'The plan of colonization seems _the only one entitled to the least consideration_.'--[Speech of M. C. Paterson, Esq. on the same occasion.] 'Nor will their brethren of the North desire to interfere with their constitutional rights, or rashly to disturb a system interwoven with their feelings, habits, and prejudices. A golden mean will be pursued, which, at the same time that it _consults the wishes_, and _respects the prejudices_ of the South, will provide for the claims of justice and Christianity, and avert the storm of future desolation.'--[Speech of Lucius Q. C. Elmer, Esq.--First Annual Report of the New-Jersey Colonization Society.]