THE EUROPEAN SLAVE TRADE 347 offering any protection to native tribes, would be inexpedient; and that the object of our policy should be to encourage in the natives the exercise of those qualities which may render it possible for us more and more to transfer to them the administration of all the governments, with a view to our ultimate withdrawal from all, except, probably. Sierra Leone." This resolution, with six others arrived at by the Committee, was adopted and reported to the House on June 26, 1865.