The editor observed that some who had emigrated to Hayti a few years before became discontented because they did not know the language.

Louisiana, a slave State, moreover, would not suffer near its borders a free Negro republic to serve as an asylum for refugees.[11] The Richmond Whig saw the actual situation in dubbing the scheme as chimerical for the reason that a more unsuitable country for the blacks did not exist.

Socially and politically it would never suit the Negroes.

Already a great number of adventurers from the United States had gone to Texas and fugitives from justice from Mexico, a fierce, lawless and turbulent class, would give the Negroes little chance there, as the Negroes could not contend with the Spaniard and the Creole.

The editor believed that an inferior race could never exist in safety surrounded by a superior one despising them.
Colonization in Africa was then urged and the efforts of the blacks to go elsewhere were characterized as doing mischief at every turn to defeat the "enlightened plan" for the amelioration of the Negroes.[12] It was still thought possible to induce the Negroes to go to some congenial foreign land, although few of them would agree to emigrate to Africa.