In an address at Springfield, Illinois, on June 26, 1857:
A separation of the races is the only perfect preventive of amalgamation, but as immediate separation is
impossible the next best thing is to keep them apart where they are not already together... Such separation,
if ever affected at all, must be effected by colonization... The enterprise is a difficult one, but 'where there
is a will there is a way;' and what colonization needs now is a hearty will. Will springs from the two
elements of moral sense and self-interest. Let us be brought to believe it is morally right, and at the same
time, favorable to, or at least not against, our interest, to transfer the African to his native clime, and we
shall find a way to do it, however great the task may be. (Vol. II, pp. 408-9)
In an address at Springfield, Illinois, on June 26, 1857:
A separation of the races is the only perfect preventive of amalgamation, but as immediate separation is
impossible the next best thing is to keep them apart where they are not already together... Such separation,
if ever affected at all, must be effected by colonization... The enterprise is a difficult one, but 'where there
is a will there is a way;' and what colonization needs now is a hearty will. Will springs from the two
elements of moral sense and self-interest. Let us be brought to believe it is morally right, and at the same
time, favorable to, or at least not against, our interest, to transfer the African to his native clime, and we
shall find a way to do it, however great the task may be. (Vol. II, pp. 408-9)
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