...Lincoln, quoting from a speech of Clay, said: "There is a moral fitness in the idea of returning to Africa her children, whose ancestors have been torn from...of the universe, whose ways are often inscrutable to shortsighted mortals, thus to transform an original crime into a signal blessing to that most unfortunate...

...the free negroes.' Clay's assertion that 'there is a moral fitness in the idea of returning to Africa her children, whose ancestors have been torn from her by the ruthless hand of fraud and violence,' pleased Lincoln. The negroes would take with them 'religion, civilization, law, and liberty,' Clay...

...ed. (Rutgers University, 1943), 2:132: There is a moral fitness in the idea of returning to Africa her children, whose ancestors have been torn from...the universe (whose ways are often inscrutable by shortsighted mortals,) thus to transform an original crime into a signal blessing to that most unfortunate...

...that "there is a moral fitness in the idea of returning to Africa her children, whose ancestors had been torn from her by the ruthless hand of fraud and violence." But black Americans have the opportunity of carrying "back to their native soil the rich fruits of...

...fitness in the idea of returning to Africa her children, whose ancestors have been torn from her by ruthless hand of fraud and violence. Transplanted...fruits of religion, civilization, law and liberty." Lincoln, noting that Clay had said this twenty-five years earlier, went on to state that "Pharaoh's...

...on the American Colonization Society: "There is a moral fitness in the idea of returning to Africa her children, whose ancestors have been torn from...fruits of religion, civilization, law and liberty." How desperate this hope, Lincoln was to learn at cost. Over the South were 3,204,000 slaves valued...

...colonization he advanced Clay's notion that there was "moral fitness in the idea of returning to Africa her children, whose ancestors have been torn from her by the ruthless hand of fraud and violence." After his inauguration, Lincoln looked into colonization as a way to handle the large numbers of blacks...

...establishment of Liberia, Clay wrote, "There is a moral fitness in the idea of returning to Africa her children, whose ancestors have been torn from her by the ruthless hand of fraud and violence." In an 1852 eulogy for Clay, Lincoln enthusiastically endorsed his vision, saluting his "deep devotion...

...quote the late statesman's belief that "there is a moral fitness in the idea of returning to Africa her children, whose ancestors have been torn from her by the ruthless hand of fraud and violence." To Lincoln, this made perfect sense, and he added: "May it indeed be realized!" Six years later, during...

...on the American Colonization Society: "There is a moral fitness in the idea of returning to Africa her children, whose ancestors have been torn from...fruits of religion, civilization, law and liberty." How desperate this hope, Lincoln was to learn at cost. Over the South were 3,204,000 slaves valued...