to admit them to these privileges, while the State Government, and the United States’ Government continue in existence.”  Again, after stating various objections to emancipation, he goes on to say, “I need not dwell much upon the subject of universal emancipation, in stating the best, or the worst, or most probable results of such a measure, because the Southern people have no more idea of the general emancipation of slaves, without colonizing them, than the Northern people have of admitting the few among them to equal rights and privileges.  Not even the friends of humanity here, think that a general emancipation, to remain here, would better their condition,” et cet.

The inferences plainly to be drawn from all this, and from much besides to the same purport, are, that the wicked determination of the white people to retain their sinful prejudices, is, like the laws of the Medes and Persians, immutable; and must, therefore, be accommodated by the transportation of the unoffending objects of their intense dislike.  On this point I will observe that, if it be so, the remedy is worse than the disease; but that Christian principle is powerful enough, as daily experience testifies, to combat and destroy this unholy prejudice.  The next inference is, that because the slave population in the Southern States is much more numerous than it was in the Northern, therefore the same reasons for emancipation do not exist.  Is not the true conclusion from such premises, the very reverse of this?  The motives to abolition increase, both in weight and number, in proportion to the absolute and relative increase of the slave population.  The British West Indies present an example of the safety and advantages of the measure in a community, where the whites are a mere handful compared to the colored population.

That state of feeling from which the Colonization Society sprung, is well illustrated by this writer, in giving, in natural language, a picture of his own mind.  After again repeating his statement of the vast proportion which the colored population bears to the white, in the Slave States, he says, “Now, my friend, the general emancipation of such a number of these poor, degraded creatures, say more than two millions, always to remain here with the white people, even if the Government should take the necessary care for their education and preparation for freedom and civilized life, which to be sure it ought, they must or will be a degraded people, while the reins of government remain in the hands of the whites.  Supposing the very best consequences that could follow such a measure, even that both classes should generally exercise Christian feelings towards each other, which is very improbable, if not morally impossible, the peculiarly marked difference of features and color, will be always an insurmountable barrier to general amalgamation.”  Again, “Were they of the same color and features that we are, in an elective republican government like this, where talents and