e Mississippi, but rather the creation of a sectional party by disguised Federalist who wanted to appeal to northern antislavery sentiments in order to divide and conquer the Republicans. Madison and Jefferson both warned the ultimate price of injecting slavery into national politics would be the eventual disruption of the union, (Meyers, p.319-320). Though numerous visitors came to Montpelier for advice about the slavery issue and the Missouri Compromise, Madison refused to be drawn into the issue.Before Madison's death, he was concerned with a workable plan that would slowly emancipate slaves. He felt that the slaves were not able to handle neither freedom all at once nor the owners willing to surrender their property. The American Colonization Society offered a means for the colonization of the free blacks. Madison saw a major problem in that it did not provide any means of emancipating and colonizing the enslaved blacks. He expressed these concerns in a letter to General Marquis de Laffyette saying,"The Negro slavery is as you justly complain, a sad blot on our free country, though a very ungracious subject of reproaches from the quarter which has been the most lavish of them. No satisfactory plan has yet been devised for taking out the stain," (Negro history, p.85). Madison worked with the Colonization Society of Virginia but he saw no hope of any state action to abolish slavery because Virginia turned down a request for public money to aid the Colony of Liberia. The Nat Turner revolt cast a shadow on most abolitionist movement. Four months later, new hopes of colonization were announced that pleased Madison. They were presented before the fifthteenth anniversary of the American Colonization Society. Much confusion was over the cause of the south's financial woes. Madison felt that this was due to slavery. It led to poor farming practices and the exploitative development of the land. Madison saw northern abolitionist ...
