[249] Gardiner Spring, "Memoir of Samuel John Mills" (Boston and New York, 1829), 10.
[250] Sunderland, "Liberian Colonization," Liberian Bulletin, No. 16, 18.
[251] Massachusetts Historical Society, Collections, Second Series, II, 1.
[252] Report of a missionary tour through that part of the United States which lies west of the Allegheny Mountains (Andover, 1815).
[253] Thomas C. Richards, "Samuel J. Mills, Missionary, Pathfinder, Pioneer and Promoter" (Boston, 1906), 190, 191; Spring, "Memoir of Mills," 129.
[254] Spring, "Memoir of Mills," 125, 126; African Repository, I, 276. A school based on these principles was established in New York also, in October, 1816. While the above quotation was written by Mills in July, 1817, it is a fair representation of his idea for several years previous.
[255] An editorial in the North American Review, XXXV, 126.
[256] Niles' Register, XIV, 321. Thomas Doan, Aaron Coppock, James Boyd, Joseph Coin, and Elihu Embree signed such a statement.
[257] Jesse Torrey, Jr., "A Portraiture of Domestic Slavery, in the United States: with Reflections on the Practicability of Restoring the Moral Rights of the Slave, without Impairing the Legal Privileges of the Possessor; and a Project of a Colonial Asylum for Free Persons of Colour: including Memoirs of Facts on the Interior Traffic in Slaves, and on Kidnapping" (Philadelphia, 1817), 27-30.
[258] Niles' Register, XIII, 180.