This assumption of peculiar friendliness on the part of the Abolitionists, and the plausible reasonings with which they approached their “colored friends,” have acquired the confidence of the latter, who are now, however, beginning to awake to a just idea of their condition and future prospects in this country.  They have discovered that the loud-mouthed protestations of the Abolitionists, are the mere effervescence of an intermeddling and dangerous faction, against whose principles the whole Union—­whose destruction they have meditated—­has pronounced in tones of thunder; a faction whose baleful alliance is shunned most religiously, by both of the great parties of the country.  They have discovered that underground railroads are a device to inveigle the slaves from a condition of comparative comfort, into the freedom of starvation, with a poor display of political privileges, which are mockery in view of their exercise by an ignorant and despised minority; that the expectations fostered in behalf of the free blacks are proved to be entirely futile by the continued attitude of opposition held towards them, when there is a question of lessening the social and political gulf which divides the races.  They discover that the rapid immigration of whites from every quarter, is encroaching upon their employments, and lessening their chance of gaining a thrifty livelihood, even in those menial pursuits to which they are chiefly limited.

With the spread of education, and the expansion of republican ideas, they become more sensible of their own anomalous and degraded condition, and the result is a yearning to be free like those around them, to have a land all their own, to have rights unquestioned by any superior color, to go wherever such privileges may be obtained.  They see in the growing republics on the West coast of Africa, a living refutation of the calumnies of the Abolitionists against the colonizationists, a land where, from simple citizenship up to the highest post in the government, all is free and open to them, and where character, enterprise, education and honorable ambition, have all their appropriate rewards in the order of the State.  What is better, no white man can hope to cast his lot there with the prospect of permanent settlement, or transmitting a healthy posterity.  They see there such men as the late Gov.  Russwurm or the present Gov.  Roberts, sustaining their rule surrounded by their own race, with a distinction and dignity which would do honor to any white man.  They see there pioneers of their own color, who in the arts of peace or of war, are striking examples of what the emancipation of the MIND can effect.

This is a crisis full of important results to the race in this country, and it behooves them now to cast aside all false issues, to take into serious consideration (in the words of the circular) their