I have endeavored, in the preceding pages, to show that the condition of the slaves of the South; so far from being improved; is made worse by emancipation under existing circumstances.  Free negroes meet with but little sympathy in the South, and with still less in the North.  A residence of a few years in the slave and also in the free States, will satisfy anyone of the truth of this remark.  Free negroes are more odious to Northern than to Southern people.  In all the varied and multifarious relations of social life, they are told to stand aside.  Under no circumstances, social, civil or religious, can the white man and the African, meet on terms of equality and reciprocity.  They are debarred from social intercourse with the whites.  They are not suffered to become, so far as I know, members of any secret society, association or organization, whatever.  Beside the white man at the hospitable board, they cannot, they dare not sit; and to a seat in the white man’s parlor, and social converse, they dare not aspire.  The carpet of the white man was not spread for them, and around his cheerful hearth, before his crackling fire, there is no place for them.  They are not suffered to participate in any of the festivities or amusements of their more highly favored white brethren.  If they are admitted into the same crowd, they must not commingle with the whites; they are required to stand to one side.  If they are admitted into the same house, a separate apartment is assigned to them, and if to the same table, they are taught to wait in patience until the white man is satiated; and then to be content with the fragments and crumbs.  If they enter the same church, a separate bench, or a separate apartment in the church is allotted to them; for beside the white man they dare not sit, while engaged in devotional exercises.  The black man’s children are not gathered together in the same school room, with the white man’s.  They are denied in free, as well as in slave States, the right of suffrage, or any participation, whatever, in civil affairs.  All this is true of free, as well as slave States, with a few exceptions.  The free negro in no respect betters his condition, by taking up his residence in a free State.  In some respects it is made worse by the change.  They are offcasts from society—­loathed and despised, wherever they go.  Nature has interposed an impassable barrier, between the white and the black man.  It is not alone tho black skin, and the woolly hair of the African that render him so odious to the Anglo-Saxon.  The two races are diverse, mentally and morally—­in their social qualities, habits, tastes and feelings.  I shall not stop here to draw a contrast in detail, but after a few remarks I shall pass on.