They are no where credible witnesses against white men.  They are no where allowed the right of suffrage; or if the law allows it, they are not suffered to avail themselves of it.  They are no where admitted as judge, juror, or counsellor.  They are no where eligible to any office of profit, trust, or honor.  Their children are no where admitted into the same school-room with the whites.  They are no where protected, encouraged, and rewarded in all the North.  They are victims of injustice, scorned and despised in every free state in this confederacy.  And abolitionists are as far from making equals of them, or associating with them, as any one else.

The city of Baltimore presents the largest and most intelligent mass of free negroes found in the United States.  These in an appeal to the citizens of Baltimore, and through them to the people of the United States, say, “we reside among you, and yet are strangers,—­natives, yet not citizens—­surrounded by the freest people and the most republican institutions in the world, and yet we enjoy none of the immunities of freedom.  As long as we remain among you, we shall be a distinct race—­an extraneous mass of men irrecoverably excluded from your institutions.  Though we are not slaves—­we are not free.”

Judge Blackford, speaking of free negroes, says, “They are of no service here, (in the free states,) to the community or themselves.  They live in a country, the favorite abode of liberty, without the enjoyment of her rights.”

Dr. Miller says, “if liberated and left among the whites, they would be a constant source of corruption, annoyance and danger.  They could never be trusted as faithful citizens.”

There is at last no sympathy between the two races, except in the slave states.  There, for the most part, we find kind feelings and strong attachments between the slaves and the families in which they reside.  I must, however, refer the reader to other parts of this volume for additional remarks on the subjects discussed in the preceding pages,—­more particularly to chapters, 4, 5, 6, 7.  But I would ask, in the name of all that is sacred, what advantage, what benefit under these circumstances is conferred on the Southern slaves by emancipation?  I know from personal observation, that Southern slaves are better fed, better clothed, and better housed than are free negroes, either North or South; in short, they are better paid for their labor.  The South is the only part of the United States, where ministers of the gospel are successful in Christianizing the African race—­the only part of the United States where there is anything like good order, good morals, or Christianity among them.  The only place at last, on this continent, where the African is cared for and provided for, and where there is any thing like sympathy, kindness or fellow-feeling between the two races.