[66] The Nashville Banner, October 15, 1833.
[67] Petitions to the Legislature, 1832-33. State Archives.
[68] African Repository, XXII, 39.
[69] Ibid., XXV, 28.
[70] Constitution of the Society, Art. 2; African Repository. XXIV, 272.
[71] African Repository, XXIV, 288.
[72] Acts of 1850, Ch. 130, Secs. 5 and 8.
[73] He quoted from “the celebrated Texas letter of Robt. J. Walker published in 1844,” which estimated “that according to the rate of increase from 1790 to 1840, there would be in the six states of New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois alone, no less than 400,000 free blacks in 1853; 800,000 in 1865; and 1,600,000 in 1890. The number of free blacks in the slave states is even greater than in the free states.” This great number of free blacks will have a powerful moral influence for good or evil upon every interest in the country.
“I refrain from pursuing the subject further. I will not look to that dark but not distant future, when in some of the largest of the free states, this population shall have grown powerful in numbers, demanding the elective franchise, and when perhaps political parties, in the frenzy of their excitement shall bid for their influence and make them a power in the State. They may hold the balance of power in these larger States, and through them in the Union. With all their capacity for mischief, through the mistaken sympathy they are calculated to inspire for the slave of the South, it is impossible to estimate the amount of discord and of injury they must inevitably produce among the states.”
[74] Annual Report of American Colonization Society for 1852, 62-65.