The precise state of his mind in respect of the question at this juncture in its history and in his own is made plain enough in his salutatory address in _The Genius of Universal Emancipation_.

The vow made in Bennington ten months before to devote his life to philanthrophy, and the dedication of himself made six months afterward to the extirpation of American slavery, he solemnly renews and reseals in Baltimore.

He does not hate intemperance and war less, but slavery more, and those, therefore, he formally relegates thenceforth to a place of secondary importance in the endeavors of the future.

It is obvious that the colonization scheme has no strong hold upon his intelligence.

He does not conceal his respect for it as an instrument of freedom, but he puts no high value on its utility.