Note 462 — The Struggle for the Recognition of Haiti and Liberia as Independent Republics
Reading edition
African Repository, February, 1862, p. 41.
"The Executive Committee of the American Colonization Society observe with deep interest that the President of the United States has in his late message recommended that the Republic of Liberia should be acknowledged as independent. They also notice his recommendation of some plan of colonization for free people of color in some clime congenial to them."