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28 industriously scattering light upon this subject, and that too from sources where, awhile ago, the cause experienced opposition and misrepresentation.

Viewing this project of African colonization in all its antecedents, connections, and consequences, we cannot place it second to any other of human devising. Consider the perplexing problem which it so beautifully solves, consider the gigantic and varied features of the scheme itself, the probable magnitude of its many most desirable results, and the glory and blessing attendant on every step in its onward progress, and where can be found an unfolding of Providence so stupendous and beneficent! Must there not be a remarkable impressiveness in the scheme, to have rallied to its support such friends as it has at home and abroad. I know of no benevolent scheme which has ever enlisted in its behalf so large and dignified an array of piety, talent, wealth, cultivation and high position as this. All the enlightened religious bodies of the country, the most of our State Legislatures, in all sections, and of all parties, (except the Abolitionist) Presidents of the United States, (I believe all of them since the foundation of the Society) our leading philanthropists, our most distinguished statesmen and divines, the great majority of our newspapers and reviews, literary, commercial, political, and religious, have sanctioned and sustained this cause in all proper modes, and on all proper occasions. Men of all creeds in politics and religion, men in all localities and all interests, see in this many-sided scheme, something