elevating the colored race of the United States, that he has left the Colonization Society, and prefers seeing colored people located on this continent, to going to Liberia, or elsewhere off of it—­though his zeal for the enlightenment of Africa, is unabated, as every good man’s should be; and we are satisfied, that Mr. Coates is neither well understood, nor rightly appreciated by the friends of our cause.  One thing we do know, that he left the Colonization Society, because he could not conscientiously subscribe to its measures.

IV

OUR ELEVATION IN THE UNITED STATES

That very little comparatively as yet has been done, to attain a respectable position as a class in this country, will not be denied, and that the successful accomplishment of this end is also possible, must also be admitted; but in what manner, and by what means, has long been, and is even now, by the best thinking minds among the colored people themselves, a matter of difference of opinion.

We believe in the universal equality of man, and believe in that declaration of God’s word, in which it is there positively said, that “God has made of one blood all the nations that dwell on the face of the earth.”  Now of “the nations that dwell on the face of the earth,” that is, all the people—­there are one thousand millions of souls, and of this vast number of human beings, two-thirds are colored, from black, tending in complexion to the olive or that of the Chinese, with all the intermediate and admixtures of black and white, with the various “crosses” as they are physiologically, but erroneously termed, to white.  We are thus explicit in stating these points, because we are determined to be understood by all.  We have then, two colored to one white person throughout the earth, and yet, singular as it may appear, according to the present geographical and political history of the world, the white race predominates over the colored; or in other words, wherever there is one white person, that one rules and governs two colored persons.  This is a living undeniable truth, to which we call the especial attention of the colored reader in particular.  Now there is a cause for this, as there is no effect without a cause, a comprehensible remediable cause.  We all believe in the justice of God, that he is impartial, “looking upon his children with an eye of care,” dealing out to them all, the measure of his goodness; yet, how can we reconcile ourselves to the difference that exists between the colored and the white races, as they truthfully present themselves before our eyes?  To solve this problem, is to know the remedy; and to know it, is but necessary, in order successfully to apply it.  And we shall but take the colored people of the United States, as a fair sample of the colored races everywhere of the present age, as the arguments that apply to the one, will apply to the other, whether Christians, Mahomedans, or pagans.