Nevertheless, this colonizing scheme, unworthy as it is of American statesmanship, and American honour, and though full of mischief to the coloured people, seems to have a strong hold on the public mind, and at times has shown much life and vigor.
Douglass expresses skepticism about the colonization scheme and its impact on African Americans.
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We (the people of the North) are a charitable people, and in the excess of this feeling we were disposed to put the very best construction upon the strange behavior of our southern brethren.
The good to be sought and the evil to be shunned were flung in the balance and weighed against each other.
It was in the air, and men breathed it and were permeated by it, often when they were quite unconscious of its presence.
The laws which determine the destinies of individuals and nations are impartial and eternal.