“We have been repeatedly asked, why do you not send those slaves to Liberia?  To this question we reply, we have had nothing to do with them, and have reason to believe that they have been prejudiced against going to Liberia.  And in addition to this, it is now very doubtful whether they have money enough left to take them to Liberia; and it would be impossible for us, in the present state of our finance, to give them a free passage and support them six months after their arrival.

“We have been informed that many of the rest of them would come back to Virginia, and be slaves, rather than remain in Ohio, if they could get back. And yet they are now free and in a free state!  But what does it all amount to?

“Suppose western Virginia and northern Kentucky, were tomorrow to emancipate their slaves, what would become of them?  They could not remain in those states.  They must remove.  Where shall they go?  To Ohio, most easily, and as there are more Abolitionists in that state than any other, more hopefully!  But would they be admitted there?  Where then shall they go?  Let those who can, answer these questions.  In view of them, and such like, the scheme of colonization rises in magnificence and grandeur beyond conception.

   “This then is the time to aid this scheme, that when these thickening
   events shall turn the tide into Liberia, there may be strength and
   intelligence enough there to receive it!”

—­The African Repository, XXII, 321-322.

   (From the Colonizationist)
   THE RANDOLPH SLAVES

   “Plattsville, Wis.,

   “August 22, 1846.

   “Bro.  Gurley:—­I have observed from time to time, with the deepest
   interest, the course pursued by the citizens of Ohio toward the
   emancipated slaves of the late John Randolph of Virginia.

“I had repeatedly remarked in my lectures, as stated in the ’Eleventh Annual Report of the Indiana Colonization Society,’ that when slaves were emancipated in the south, and by the laws of those States (as is the case with most of them), they are forced to leave and not permitted to remain in any State south, to go into the north; those northern States would reject them, and leave the slave the alternative, to choose between returning into bondage or emigrating to Liberia.  In other words, Liberia offers the only retreat for the slave from bondage, where he is required to leave the south.  The free States, may, for a short time, tolerate the migration of a few colored people among them from the south.  Especially among the Abolitionists, where they are allowed to have the satisfaction of abducting them from their masters.  But if the master comes and offers them, and especially in large numbers, they will be refused.

“On my way to this place, I met