[269] Spring, "Memoir of Mills," 131, 139, 140.
[270] Brown, Finley, 65, 66.
[271] Ibid., "A Respectable Resident of the District of Columbia to Brown," 64, 65.
[272] Sunderland, "Liberian Colonization," Liberian Bulletin, No. 16, 19.
[273] Virginia Historical Society, Collections, VI, 26; Niles' Register, XI, 296.
[274] Niles' Register, XI, 296.
[275] Manuscript Record of the Meeting, Library of Congress. Copy furnished by the American Colonization Society.
[276] The National Intelligencer reported the meeting. The substance of Clay's remarks is printed in Archibald Alexander, "A History of Colonization on the Western Coast of Africa" (Philadelphia, 1849), 77-82; in J. Tracy, "A View of Exertions Lately Made for the Purpose of Colonizing the Free People of Color in the United States, in Africa, or Elsewhere" (Washington, 1817), 4 ff.
[277] Alexander, "A History of Colonization," 82-87; Tracy, "A View of Exertions," 4-11. For a criticism of all the speeches before this meeting see David Walker, "An Appeal" (Boston, 1830), 50 ff.
[278] Torrey, "A Portraiture of Domestic Slavery," 69.