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T h e country West of the R o c k y Mountains, is also objectionable .111 s everal grounds. T h e e xpense o f transportation of emigrants to i t, w hether by sea or inland, would be incomparably greater than to A frica. T h e y would be thrown in the midst of Indian tribes, to w hom they are as incongruous as with the whites. Bloody and exterminating w ars would be the certain c onsequence; and the U . S tates would be bound to incur great expense i n defending them and p reserving p eace. F i n a l l y , t hat wave of the European race which rose o n the borders of the A tlantic, s wept o ver t he Alleghany Mountains, r eached the Mississippi, and ascended the two great rivers w hich u nite near St. Louis, w i l l a t no distant day pass the R o c k y M ountains, and strike the Pacific, where it would again p roduce t hat v ery contact between discordant races which it is so desirable to avoid. T h e society has demonstrated the practicability of planting a c olony on the shores of A frica. Its exertions have b een c onfined e xclusively to the f ree c oloured p eople o f the United States, and to those o f them who are w illing to go. It has neither purpose nor p ower to extend them to the larger portion of that race held in b ondage. T hroughout the whole period of its existence this disclaimer has b een m ade, and incontestible facts establish its t ruth a nd s incerity. It is now repeated, in its behalf, that the spirit of m isrepresentation may have no pretext for abusing the public ear. B ut, a lthough its s cheme is so restricted, the society is aware, and r ejoices t hat the principle of African colonization, which it has developed, admits of wider scope and m ore e xtensive application, by those states and private individuals, who may have the p ower a nd t he inclination to apply it. T h e slave population of the United Slates, according to the last r eturns o f their census, as was shown m ore i n detail, on another occasion, increased in a ratio of about 4G,000 per annum. It may, p erhaps, now be estimated at not less than 50,000. It was said on t hat o ccasion : " L e t us s uppose, f or example, that the whole " p opulation at present of the U n i t e d States, is twelve millions, of " w hich ten may be estimated of the A n g l o Saxon, and two of the " A f r i c a n race. I f there could be annually transported from the " U . States, an amount of the A f r i c a n portion equal to the annual " i ncrease of the whole of that cast, whilst the European race " s hould be left to m u l t i p l y , we should find, at the termination of " t he period of duplication, whatever it may be, that the relative " p roportions would be as twenty to two. A n d i f the p rocess " w ere continued, during a s econd t erm of duplication, the popu" lation would be as forty to t wo   one w hich would eradicate eve" r y c ause o f alarm or solicitude from the breasts of the most " t i m i d . B u t the transportation of Africans, by creating, to the " e x t e n t to which i t might be carried, a vacuum in society, would " t end to accelerate the duplication of the European race, who, by " a l l the laws of population, would fill u p the void s p a c e / ' To t ransport to A f r i c a fifty thousand persons, would c ost one m illion