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[Non-Seq] A long term scheme to accomplish the forced removal of over 4 million people? Where is that brought out in the memo?

We earnestly pray that a perpetual barrier may be reared between us and that land of the mixed races of this continent - Mexico. That, so far as this nation is concerned, we shall forever guarantee the integrity of her country, and so adjust our policy, that she might gradually receive our colored people, which when added to her already large body of five and a half or six millions of people of mixed race, would give her a population of near 12,000,000 persons of mixed caste, and, in the course of half a century, she will have a strong and compact community of near twenty million persons of color. It is the conviction of millions that this should be the line of policy towards Mexico and Central America. As Abraham and Lot agreed to separate their conflicting retainer and dependents, the one going to the right and the other to the left, so let those two governments agree to divide this continent between the Anglo-American and mixed races, the latter taking that which nature, in her wisdom, has prepared for them, and which for beauty, fertility, and grandeur of scenery, cannot be equaled on the globe - a country once the seat of empire and home of ancient civilization, he monuments of which abound in Central America.
If we would retain our republicanism, it must become a fixed principle with us not to add territory to our country on the south, unless that territory is uninhabited; for every square mile added which is encumbered with a mixed race of local and fixed habits, (unused to migration like the Mexican and Central American Indian, and Negro races,) adds danger, trouble, and sure decay to republicanism. Statesmen may boast that "it is our manifest destiny to annex all the adjoining country and cover it with our institutions." With all due respect to them, we say they speak without reflection. Our republican institutions are not adapted to mixed races and classified people. Our institutions require a homogeneous population to rest on as a basis; without this basis, the continuance of republicanism, for any great length of time, is impossible.

Yeah I know, I read it. But I didn't see where Mitchell was proposing that Lincoln start with gradual voluntary emancipation and then hit 'em with the forced expulsions lik GOP suggested. Where is that part?

Gentlemen,

I would like to direct you to this posted on shucks.net . Is it my imagination or is Davis suggesting expelling all slaves up North if the North wants to take care of them?