[Hand->] ADDITION.—­If any of us see fit to go away, go to those who have been for many years, and are now our greatest earthly friends and benefactors—­the English.  If not so, go to our brethren, the Haytians, who, according to their word, is bound to protect and comfort us.  The Americans say that we are ungrateful—­but I ask them for heaven’s sake, what we should be grateful to them for—­for murdering our fathers and mothers?—­Or do they wish us to return thanks to them for chaining and handcuffing us, branding us, cramming fire down our throats, or for keeping us in slavery, and beating us nearly or quite to death to make us work in ignorance and miseries, to support them and their families.  They certainly think that we are a gang of fools.  Those among them, who have volunteered their services for our redemption, though we are unable to compensate them for their labors, we nevertheless thank them from the bottom of our hearts, and have our eyes steadfastly fixed upon them, and their labors of love for God and man.  But do slave-holders think that we thank them for keeping us in miseries, and taking our lives by the inches? [<-Hand]

Before I proceed further with this scheme, I shall give an extract from the letter of that truly Reverend Divine, (Bishop Allen,) of Philadelphia, respecting this trick.  At the instance of the Editor of the Freedom’s Journal, he says,[21]

“Dear Sir, I have been for several years trying to reconcile my mind to the Colonizing of Africans in Liberia, but there have always been, and there still remain great and insurmountable objections against the scheme.  We are an unlettered people, brought up in ignorance, not one in a hundred can read or write, not one in a thousand has a liberal education; is there any fitness for such to be sent into a far country, among heathens, to convert or civilize them, when they themselves are neither civilized or christianized?  See the great bulk of the poor, ignorant Africans in this country, exposed to every temptation before them:  all for the want of their morals being refined by education and proper attendance paid unto them by their owners, or those who had the charge of them.  It is said by the Southern slave-holders, that the more ignorant they can bring up the Africans, the better slaves they make, ’go and come.’  Is there any fitness for such people to be colonized in a far country, to be their own rulers?  Can we not discern the project of sending the free people of colour away from their country?  Is it not for the interest of the slave-holders to select the free people of colour out of the different states, and send them to Liberia?  Will it not make their slaves uneasy to see free men of colour enjoying liberty?  It is against the law, in some of the southern states, that a person of colour should receive an education, under a severe penalty.  Colonizationists speak of America being first colonized, but is there any comparison between the two?  America