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92 1. How long will it take an individual or a nation to conquer prejudices, by continuing to practice and excuse them;—substituting general acknowledgements of their guilt, for immediately and thoroughly repudiating them? 2. How long will it take to civilize an uncultivated people, by deluging them, with myriads of the most corrupt, depraved and abandoned inhabitants of a civilized state?

3. How long will it take to christianize heathen nations, by sending the most corrupt, depraved and abandoned people of the United States, as missionaries to them? 4. If instruction be requisite in order to prepare the enslaved Americans for benefiting Africa; and if the slave laws, generally render their instruction impossible, while they remain slaves, how long will it take to prepare them, they remaining slaves? 5. How long will it take to remove between two and three millions of Americans to Africa, said to be the most corrupt as a body of all others, by making a careful selection before they are removed, and sending those only, who seem to be well qualified to benefit Africa?—or, in other words, how long will it take to clear away a forest of noxious plants, by removing only, the few healthful shrubs which adorn it?

6. How long will it take to remove to Africa, say, 2,500,000 Americans, with their annual increase of 60,000, by sending away a few hundreds or thousands yearly?—or, if a society remove 3000 Americans to Africa in ten years, how many years will it take the same society to remove 2,500,000 increasing annually at the rate of 60,000? 7. If, out of a vast multitude of corrupt, depraved and abandoned people as they are reported, the few hundreds or thousands only are removed, who are really of a superior stamp, how will the separation be effected which is said to be indispensable to the prosperity of the United States? 8. If the good go, and the bad only remain, how will the United States be benefited? 9. If the bad also, who are said to be the vast majority, be sent to Africa, how will Africa be benefited?—or, can we sanely expect, that an uncivilized and heathen people will be disposed to deal with them more justly, or be able to manage them more easily, than the civilized and enlightened people of the United States? 10. If benevolence to Africa be our motive, can we send the worst part of our population thither?

11. If benevolence to ourselves be our motive, can we send away the