"That is the wish of all my friends here.

But let us come now to the point.

Madam, to be frank with you, you have, as we just have said, been much concerned of late with attempts at the colonization and deportation of negroes from this country.

You at least have not hesitated to undertake a work which has daunted the imagination of our ablest minds.

Precisely such was once my own plan.