Liberator opposes a proposal to establish a colony for freed slaves in Central America.

The paper argues that the nation’s four million slaves “are as much the natives of the country as any of their oppressors. Here they were born; here, by every consideration of justice and humanity, they are entitled to live; and here it is for them to die in the course of nature. . . [One might] as well attempt to roll back Niagara as to its source, or to cast the Allegheny mountains into the sea as to think of driving or enticing them out of the country.”