400 REMARKS ON OUR COMMERCE WITH AFRICA. 



slave-trade continues, neither this nor any other 

 plan can have a fair trial ; that it would be a 

 waste of money, time, and life, to adopt it or 

 any other ; and that the success of the plan hinges 

 upon its extinction. I may be wrong in this 

 opinion, and may have erred in the plan here 

 proposed ; but as I have no interest directly or 

 indirectly with Africa, excepting a desire to pro- 

 mote her welfare and prosperity in common with 

 the rest of my countrymen, and as I can neither 

 derive benefit from its adoption nor be injured 

 by its rejection, I hope I may be considered sin- 

 cere in my opinion, and honest as to purpose in 

 the plan proposed. 



