It has been denounced with burning words, from the high places of the nation, as an execrable traffic.

To arrest it, to put an end to it, this nation keeps a squadron, at immense cost, on the coast of Africa.

Everywhere in this country, it is safe to speak of this foreign slave trade as a most inhuman traffic, opposed alike to the laws of God and of man.

The duty to extirpate and destroy it is admitted even by our _doctors of divinity_.

In order to put an end to it, some of these last have consented that their colored brethren (nominally free) should leave this country, and establish themselves on the western coast of Africa.