rinsic and fatal
injustice, you will deprive the country of what it most needs, which
is labor. Those freedmen on the spot are better than mineral wealth.
Each is a mine, out of which riches can be drawn, provided you let him
share the product, and through him that general industry will be
established which is better than anything but virtue, and is, indeed,
a form of virtue. It is vain to say that this is a white man's
country. It is the country of man. Whoever disowns any member of the
human family as brother disowns God as father, and thus becomes
impious as well as inhuman. It is the glory of republican institutions
that they give practical form to this irresistible principle. If
anybody is to be sent away, let it be the guilty and not the
innocent."--_Charles Sumner's Complete Works_, XII, Section 3, p. 334.

[15] Nicolay and Hay, _Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln_, II, p. 205.
Nicolay and Hay, _A History of Abraham Lincoln_, VI, p. 356.

[16] Raymond, _Life, Public Services and State Papers of Abraham
Lincoln_, p. 504. Nicolay and Hay, _Complete Works of Abraham
Lincoln_, VIII, p. 1.

[17] Richardson, _The Messages and Papers of the President,
1789-1897_, p. 127. _Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln_, VIII, p. 97.

[18] A section of the emancipation proclamation states that it is the
President's purpose upon the next meeting of Congress to recommend the
adoption of a practical measure so that the effort to "colonize
persons of African decent with their consent, upon this continent or
elsewhere with the previously obtained consent of the governments
existing there," will be continued. Nicolay and Hay, _A History_, VI,
p. 168.

[19] It is interesting to note that the colored population seemed very
little in favor of colonization. "It is something singular that the
colored race--those in reality most interested in the future destinies
of Africa--should be so lightly affected by the evidences continually
being presented in favor of colonization." _The National
Intelligencer_, October 23, 1850. But an address issued by the
National Emigration Convention of Colored people held at Cleveland,
Ohio, urged the colored inhabitants of the United States seriously to
consider the question of migrating to some foreign clime. See also
JOURNAL OF NEGRO HISTORY, "Attitude of Free Negro on African
Colonization," I.

[20] _Diplomatic Correspondence_, Part I, p. 202. Nicolay and Hay.
_Complete Works_, p. 357.

[21] "Mr. Bates