Excerpt from Letter to the Edinburgh Reviewers: By "an American"
Particularly of the members of the Colonization Societies whom I do not mean to offend by addressing them in this incidental and collateral Way. I shall pay my respects to them openly and directly as soon as I have leisure. As that leisure may not soon arrive, they will pardon me for entreating them to examine attentively, in the mean time, the history of all the humane schemes that have been projected, from the era of Peter the Her mit down to Mr. Wilberforce and the present day, and to say whether, in nine cases out of ten, these schemes have not either failed, or produced mischiefs unforeseen, or increased the very evil they were intended to relieve. I beg leave to assure them, that they will find the enquiry extremely interesting, and its result precisely such as I have suggested.
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