If as the friends of colonization hope, the present and coming generations of our countrymen shall by any means, succeed in freeing our land from the dangerous presence of slavery; and, at the same time, in restoring a captive people to their long-lost father-land, with bright prospects for the future; and this too, so gradually, that neither races nor individuals shall have suffered by the change, it will indeed be a glorious consummation. ✨ Abraham Lincoln (1989). Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45, p.271, Library of America
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