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66 his ardor for reform, (an ardor which only expired with his life) he was full of loyalty and subordination.

The preceding history, and the circumstances around me, force an additional topic upon my attention.

Granville Sharp has been quoted as a favorer of colonization—and even of such colonization, as the Colonization Society of the United States is now conducting. I know not whether the Virginia and Maryland colonization plans, have equally claimed him. What is the fact? How shall we get at it? Where is our evidence?

We must seek it, I presume, 1st from the well known and ruling principles of his mind—2d from his own correspondence or memoranda, as far as we have access to them—3d, from a fair comparison between Sierra Leone and Liberia—4th, by examining together, the fundamental principles of the two establishments—5th, from an impartial consideration of the national state of mind, in both cases—and 6th, from the general character of their most congenial advocates. Let us however understand our terms before we proceed. By colonization, we mean, not such as William Penn's. The first settlement of Pennsylvania is a colonial oasis—no more like colonies in general, than the fresh springs of the desert, are like the burning sands, which surround them. We mean not missionary establishments, such as adorn the