Orville Browning wrote a report that referred to "...their own beknighted land" which this organization printed in its magazine.
In the late 1850s, The New York Herald editorialized that this organization's annual meeting was "an old fogy affair" and asked "can anything be more ridiculous, than keeping up a society such as this?" This organization's longtime chairman referred to its policy as the "benevolent solution" in a speech for which Abraham Lincoln was in the audience, on his way to take up his congressional seat. Francis Blair, Jr. led a resurgence of this organization, which was central to the Republican party's efforts in Missouri. Orville Browning wrote a report that referred to "...their own beknighted land" which this organization printed in its magazine. (*) William Lloyd Garrison's pamphlet Thoughts on [this organization's policy] explains that he came to oppose it thanks to the realization that those it was intended to help mostly spurned it. For 10 points, what is this organization chaired by Henry Clay that sought to defer the issue of black citizenship by sponsoring freedmen's emigration to Central America and Africa?
In the late 1850s, The New York Herald editorialized that this organization's annual meeting was "an old fogy affair" and asked "can anything be more ridiculous, than keeping up a society such as this?"
American Colonization Society [or ACS]