Springfield,
Illinois, July 16, 1852. The quotation here noted is taken from a
speech by Henry Clay before the American Colonization Society, 1827.
Lincoln continued: "If as friends of colonization hope, the present
and coming generations of our countrymen shall by any means succeed in
freeing our land from the dangerous presence of slavery, and at the
same time in restoring a captive people to their long lost fatherland
with bright prospects for the future, and this too so gradually that
neither races nor individuals shall have suffered by the change, it
will be a glorious consummation." _The Works of Abraham Lincoln_,
Federal Edition, edited by A.B. Lapsley, VIII, pp. 173-174.

[4] "The political creed of Abraham Lincoln embraced among other
tenets, a belief in the value and promise of colonization as one means
of solving the great race problem involved in the existence of slavery
in the United States.... Without being an enthusiast, Lincoln was a
firm believer in Colonization." Nicolay and Hay, _Abraham Lincoln--A
History_, VI, p. 354.

[5] Speech at Peoria, Ill., in reply to Douglas. _Life and Works of
Abraham Lincoln_, II, Early Speeches. Centenary Edition, edited by
M.M. Miller. The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, October 16, 1854; p. 74.

[6] In the same speech, Lincoln said: "I have said that the separation
of the races is the only perfect preventive of amalgamation.... Such
separation, if ever effected at all, must be effected by
Colonization." _The Works of Abraham Lincoln_, Federal Edition, edited
by A. B. Lapsley, II, p. 306.

[7] Nicolay and Hay, _Speeches, Letters and State Papers, Abraham
Lincoln_, I, p. 235. Lincoln's Springfield Speech, June 26, 1857.

[8] _Ibid._, VI, p. 356.

[9] Richardson, _Messages and Papers of the Presidents_, VI, p. 54.
First Annual Message, December 3, 1861.

[10] Section XI of Act approved April 16, 1862.

[11] Nicolay and Hay, _Abraham Lincoln_, VI, p. 356. Act approved July
16, 1862.

[12] Raymond, _Life, Public Services and State Papers_, p. 504.

[13] Nicolay and Hay, _Abraham Lincoln_, VI, p. 357.

[14] Charles Sumner in a speech before a State Committee in
Massachusetts, said: "A voice from the west--God save the
west--revives the exploded theory of colonization, perhaps to divert
attention from the great question of equal rights. To that voice, I
reply, first, you ought not to do it, and secondly, you cannot do it.
You ought not to do it, because besides its int