ady adopted this plan, and
before long every Southern state will have its colony. The
whole African coast will be strewn with cities, and then,
should some fearful convulsion render it necessary to the
public safety TO BANISH THE MULTITUDE AT ONCE, a house of
refuge will have been provided for them in the land of their
fathers."

Yet this was the plan of which the American Colonization Society, at
its annual meeting in 1833, had spoken in the following terms:--

Resolved, That the Society view, with the highest
gratification, the continued efforts of the State of Maryland
to accomplish her patriotic and benevolent system in regard
to her colored population; and that the last appropriation by
that state of two hundred thousand dollars, in aid of African
colonization, is hailed by the friends of the system, as a
BRIGHT EXAMPLE to other states.

Mr. Breckinridge had lauded the Colonization Society as a scheme of
benevolence and patriotism. He (Mr. T.) did not mean to deny that
there had been many pious and excellent men found amongst its founders
and subsequent supporters, but he was prepared to demonstrate that it
had grown out of prejudice, was based upon prejudice, made its appeal
to prejudice, and could not exist were the prejudice against the
colored man conquered. It had, moreover, made an appeal to the fears
and cupidity of the slaveholder, by setting forth, that, in its
operations, it would remove from the southern states the most
dangerous portion of the free population, and also enhance the value
of the slaves left remaining in the country. The doctrines found
pervading the publications of the society were of the most absurd and
anti-christian character. He would mention three, viz., 1st, that
_Africa_, and not _America_, was the true and appropriate home of the
colored man; 2dly, that prejudice against color was _invincible_, and
the elevation of the colored man, therefore, while in America, beyond
the reach of humanity, legislation and religion; and, 3dly, that there
should be no emancipation except for the purposes of colonization. How
truly monstrous were these doctrines! How calculated to cripple
exertion, to retard freedom, and mark the colored man out as a
foreigner and alien, to be driven out of the country as soon as the
means for his removal were provided. Such had really been the effect
of the society's views upon the public mind in America. If th