Samuel Cornish against Colonization

LET THE COLORED MAN SPEAK  “From the foundation of the Colonization Society up to the present hour, the free colored inhabitants of this land have uniformly expressed their abhorrence of it …The latest expression of feeling, on this subject, is contained in the Colored American of the 2d instance, from the pen of its worthy editor, The Rev. Samual E. Cornish.  Hear him!  — The colonization scheme is only worthy designing demagogues, who are seeking southern influence and southern votes.  Its advocacy is suitable business only for a corrupt clergy, seeking place and money or for a lazy aristocracy who prefer presdencies, treasuries and agencies to principles …”   (Liberator, June 6, 1838, pg 3)