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Excerpt from Letters on the Colonization Society, and on Its Probable Results: Under the Following Heads; The Origin of the Society; Increase of the Coloured Population; Manumission of Slaves in This Country; Declarations of Legislatures, and Other Assembled Bodies, in Favour of the Society
II. It has been the means of securing the emancipation of hundreds of slaves, in various parts of the' United States, who are now in a genial climate, enjoying the luxury of free dom with all its attendant blessin and. From the present disposition of the citizens of some of the slave states, particularly Virginia, there is no doubt that thousands will be emancipa ted, as fast as means of transportation can be procured.
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