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1 Edward Everett, Address of the Hon. Edward Everett, at the Anniversary of the American Colonization Society, January 18, 1853 1 (1853)

handle is hein.slavery/adevacs0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ADDRESS OF THE HON EDWARD EVERETT, AT THE Anniversary of the American Colonization Society, JANUARY 18, 1853. MR. PRESIDENT, AND GENTLEMEN OF THE COLONIZATION SOciETY: IT was my intention, when I was requested some weeks ago to take a part in the proceedings of this evening, to give to the subject of the Colo- nization Society and its operations on the coast of Africa, the most thorough examination in my power, in all its bearings; considering that, whether we look to the condition of this country or the interests of Africa, no more important object could engage our attention. But during almost the whole of the interval that has since elapsed, my time and my thoughts have been so entirely taken up and pre-occupied, that it has been altogether out of my power to give more than the hastiest preparation to the part which I am to take in this evening's proceedings. I am therefore obliged to throw myself upon the indulgence of this audience, with such a hasty view of the subject as I have been alone able to take. The Colonization Society seems to me to have been the subject of much unmerited odium, of much equally unmerited indifference on the part of the great mass of the community, and to have received that attention which it so well deserves, from but very few. We regard it now only in its infancy. All that we see in this country is the quiet operation of a private association, pursuing the even tenor of its way without ostentation, without eclat; and on the coast of Africa there is nothing to attract our attention but a small settlement, the germ of a Republic, which, however prosperous, is but still in its infancy. But before we deride even these small beginnings-before we make up our minds that the most important futurities are not wrapped up in them, even as the spreading oak is wrapped up in the small acorn which we can hold in our fingers, we should do well to recollect the first twenty-five or thirty years of the settlement at Jamestown, in your State, Mr. President,

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