[58] Ibid., 208.

[59] Ibid., 208.

[60] Cornish and Wright, “The Colonization Scheme Considered,” 7.

[61] “Having now done what we could,” said they, “we ask you in view of the whole case whether you ought longer to take advantage of our weakness and press on us an enterprise that we have rejected from the first?  Whether you ought to persist in a scheme which nourishes an unreasonable and un-Christian prejudice—­which persuades legislatures to continue their unjust enactments against us in all their rigor—­which exposes us to the persecution of the proud and profligate—­which cuts us off from employment, and straitens our means of subsistence—­which afflicts us with the feeling that our condition is unstable—­and prevents us from making efforts for our improvement, or for the advancement of our own usefullness and benefits and with our families.”—­Cornish and Wright, “The Colonization Scheme Considered,” 8.

[62] Stebbins, “Facts and Opinions Touching the Real Origin, Character and Influence of the American Colonization Society,” 208.

[63] The African Repository, XXVI, 294.

[64] Douglass, “Life and Times of Frederick Douglass,” 260.

[65] Crummell thought so well of it that he went to Africa for this purpose.  See The African Repository, XXX, 125.

[66] Ibid., LXIII, 273.

[67] Niles’ Register, LVI, 165 and 180.

[68] The African Repository, XXIII, 374.

[69] Ibid., XXIV, 243.

[70] Mr. Washington had been active in securing the assistance of a few men of superior ability and high ideals and finally entered into negotiations with the authorities for a tract of land in Mexico on which he proposed to colonize the free Negroes of the United States, but the war in that country prevented the execution of the plan.  He was compelled finally to abandon the plan of a separate state in America, but gave all his time, voice and pen and means to the cause of emigration to Liberia.  See New York Tribune, ——­, and The African Repository, XXVII, 259.

[71] Anthony Bowen, who was at that time a messenger in the Patent Office at Washington, D.C., was the uncle of Nathaniel Bowen.  See The African Repository, XXVIII, 164.

[72] The African Repository, XXI, 285.

[73] The Cincinnati Gazette, July 14, 1841.

[74] Stebbins, “Facts and Opinions Touching the Real Origin, Character and Influence of the American Colonization Society,” 200-201.

[75] The Baltimore Sun, July 27, 28 and 29, 1852.

[76] Stebbins, “Facts and Opinions, etc.,” 200-201.

[77] Cromwell, “The Negro in American History,” 42.

[78] The North Star, 1853.

[79] Letter of Bishop Holly in Cromwell’s “Negro in American History,” 43-44.

[80] Ibid., 44.

[81] The African Repository, XXIV, 261.