Excerpt from Controversy Between Caius Gracchus and Opimius
Gentlemen: The recent organization of your Society in my vicinity, has attracted a degree of attention on my part, to the principles and objects of your Institution, which I had not given to the subject, while similar associations were springing up at a greater distance from me. For, although at all times sensible of the extreme delicacy of the subject upon which you propose to exert your beneficence, I had not believed that an Association avowedly founded on private charity alone, and seeking to effect its object through the medium of a Colony, to be planted on a distant and barbarous coast, would ever for a long while engage the serious attention of the American people. I was induced, therefore, to consider the parent Association at Washington, when it was first gotten up in 1816, (although sanctioned by some very imposing names.) as the effusion of that general desire to ameliorate the condition of man, which prevails in such a peculiar degree in our own country; and which, while it is admitted to be the offspring of some of the finest feelings of the human heart, and has often been the means of the attainment of great public blessings, has yet, not unfrequently, eventuated in the projection of schemes, abortive in principle and fraught with the most disastrous consequences both to the public and to individuals. Regarding your parent Association at Washington in this point of view, I could well do justice to the good feelings of most of its projectors, at the same moment that I indulged the belief that it would have only an ephemeral existence.
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