I shall now pass in review the speech of Mr. Elias B. Caldwell, Esq. of the District of Columbia, extracted from the same page on which Mr. Clay’s will be found.  Mr. Caldwell, giving his opinion respecting us, at that ever memorable meeting, he says: 

“The more you improve the condition of these people, the more you cultivate their minds, the more miserable you make them in their present state.  You give them a higher relish for those privileges which they can never attain, and turn what we intend for a blessing into a curse.”

Let me ask this benevolent man, what he means by a blessing intended for us?  Did he mean sinking us and our children into ignorance and wretchedness, to support him and his family?  What he meant will appear evident and obvious to the most ignorant in the world. [Hand->] See Mr. Caldwell’s intended blessings for us, O! my Lord!!!

“No,” said he, “if they must remain in their present situation, keep them in the lowest state of degradation and ignorance.  The nearer you bring them to the condition of brutes, the better chance do you give them of possessing their apathy.”

Here I pause to get breath, having labored to extract the above clause of this gentleman’s speech, at that colonizing meeting.  I presume that every body knows the meaning of the word “apathy”—­if they do not, let him get Sheridan’s Dictionary, where he will find it explained in full.  I solicit the attention of the world to the foregoing part of Mr. Caldwell’s speech, that they may see what man will do with his fellow men, when he has them under his feet.  To what length will not man go in iniquity, when given up to a hard heart and reprobate mind, in consequence of blood and oppression?  The last clause of this speech, which was written in a very artful manner and which will be taken for the speech of a friend, without close examination and deep penetration, I shall now present.  He says,

“Surely Americans ought to be the last people on earth to advocate such slavish doctrines, to cry peace and contentment to those who are deprived of the privileges of civil liberty, they who have so largely partaken of its blessings, who know so well how to estimate its value, ought to be among the foremost to extend it to others.”

The real sense and meaning of the last part of Mr. Caldwell’s speech is, get the free people of colour away to Africa, from among the slaves, where they may at once be blessed and happy, and our slaves will be contented to rest in ignorance and wretchedness, to dig up gold and silver for us and our children.  Men have indeed, got to be so cunning, these days, that it would take the eye of a Solomon to penetrate and find them out.

Extract from the speech of Mr. John Randolph, of Roanoke.

Said he:—­