It was a day of compromise, of cowardice, of politics played as politics; a day of that political unwisdom which always is dangerous--the fear of riding straight, the ignorance of the saving quality of honest courage.
Wherefore, matters went on thus, fit foundation now building for that divided and ill-ordered house of this republic, whose purification could only be found in the cleansing catastrophe of fire so soon to come.
As to the unfortunate work in which this warm-hearted enthusiast thus impulsively engaged, small comment need be made, since its failure so soon was to become apparent to the popular mind.

The Countess St.Auban was not the first to look to colonization and deportation as the solution of the negro problem in America.

But as the Colonization Society for more than a decade had failed to accomplish results, so did she in her turn fail.

In a work which continued through all that spring and summer, she drew again and again upon her own private fortune.

Carlisle and Kammerer had charge of the details, but she herself was the driving force of the enterprise.