So that there may be one other way in which the purposes of God will manifest themselves with regard to the colored race here, and that is by EXTENSION.
"'It may be that still greater portions of this land and continent are to be used, for ages to come, in the multiplication of the black race.

I feel entirely calm with regard to the subject, believing that God has a plan in all this, and that it is wise and benevolent toward all who fear Him.

While our relation to this people remains, the law of love, the golden rule, must preside over it.

That does not require us to place the blacks on a level with us in our parlors, nor in our halls of legislation; and there may be disabilities properly attaching to them which, though they seem hard, are the inevitable consequence of a dependent, inferior condition.

All this, however, has a benign effect upon us, if we will but act in a Christian manner, to make us gentle, kind, generous; and when this is the case, no state of society is happier than ours.