“I cannot make it better known than it already is, that I strongly favor colonization.”
And what, exactly, is the problem you had with voluntary colonization at that period in our nation's history? What were the alternatives? A lifetime of bondage as someone's property for them and their children and grandchildren? And if they were free then they faced horrendous racism in the North and even greater oppression in the South. Why is a chance to carve out a life for themselves free from all that such a band thing in the pre-rebellion U.S.?