1868.] ^g3 [Lesley. 



the stream of emigration should be directed no longer upon the 

 unliealtliy coast, but to the salu])rious intei'ior of the coutincnt; 

 that stations should be selected in the hill country, and easy 

 communications be established with the ports.* But there was 

 a secret spring of opposition to the scheme, among the represen- 

 tatiA'es of certain portions of the slave-holding population of the 

 South, which all the zealous efforts and enlightened arguments 

 of Mr. Foulke and his fellow philanthropists could not sto]). 

 He often used to rehearse his adventures in the (^a])itol, and 

 among them all the following was not the least instructive and 

 discouraging : " On the night before the day when he expected 

 the final passing of the Bill to secure the appropriation of the 

 $25,000 necessary for the prosecution of the exploration, he was 

 talking with a certain Senator in a parlor of the hotel. At the 

 close of their interview, this gentleman, striking his hand upon 



the mantlepiece, said vehemently, ' B}' , Mr. Foulke, you 



shall have your Bill, I'll vote for it!' It was nevertheless the 

 ' No' of this man which on the following day turned the scale 

 against the accomplishment of the desired project. The Bill 

 Avas lost by one A'ote, and that was the vote of Senator Hunter, 

 who had given him this pledge." 



Nothing came of this attempt to complete the exjjloration ; 

 but its record is made interesting, in this memoir, hy its relation 

 to the arduous and entirely successful efforts wdiich Mr. Foulke 

 made, in after years, to set on foot the second expedition to 

 the North Pole, commanded by Dr. Hayes. At the same 

 meetiiTg in Baltimore, 1855, Mr. Foulke, as chairman of another 

 Committee on the apportionment of the representation of the 

 State Societies, read its report, written evidently by himself, 

 with his usual forcible statement and skillful arrangement of the 

 divisions of his theme. The Constitution of the Colonization 

 Society was a kind of parod}' of the Constitution of the United 

 States, which permitted the discussion of political principles 

 belonging to twent}^ or thirty millions of people, within the 

 narrow limits of a Society which managed to ship five or six 

 hundred emigrants, per annum, and whose entire income ranged 

 between M\.y and a hundred thousand dollars. In 1857 Mr. 

 Fonlke, as chairman of a committee "to consider the policy of 

 the friends of Colonization, and to report such recommenda- 



* See Mr. Foulke's letter to the Nat. Intelligencer, July 1S.5S. 



