eople
must wait a little; Slavery triumphant; People at
large powerless; Necessity of severing the Slavery
question from politics; Colonisation the only hope;
Abolitionism prostrate; Admissions on this point,
by Parker, Sumner, Campbell; Other dangers to be
averted; Election of Speaker Banks a Free Trade
Triumph; Neutrality necessary; Liberia the colored
man's hope. 123

CHAPTER XIV.

THE INDUSTRIAL, SOCIAL, AND MORAL CONDITION OF THE FREE
PEOPLE OF COLOR IN THE BRITISH COLONIES, HAYTI, AND IN
THE UNITED STATES; AND THE INFLUENCE THEY HAVE EXERTED
ON PUBLIC SENTIMENT IN RELATION TO SLAVERY, AND TO THEIR
OWN PROSPECTS OF EQUALITY WITH THE WHITES.

Effects of opposition to Colonization on Liberia;
Its effects on free colored people; Their social
and moral condition; Abolition testimony on the
subject; American Missionary Association; Its
failure in Canada; Degradation of West India free
colored people; American and Foreign Anti-Slavery
Society; Its testimony on the dismal condition of
West India free negroes; London _Times_ on same
subject; Mr. Bigelow on same subject; Effect of
results in West Indies on Emancipation; Opinion of
Southern Planters; Economical failure of West India
Emancipation; Ruinous to British Commerce; Similar
results in Hayti; Extent of diminution of exports
from West Indies resulting from Emancipation;
Results favorable to American Planter; Moral
condition of Hayti; Later facts in reference to the
West Indies; Negro free labor a failure; necessity
of education to render freedom of value; Franklin's
opinion confirmed; Colonization essential to
promote Emancipation. 132

CHAPTER XV.

Moral condition of the free colored people in
United States; What have they gained by refusing to
accept Colonization? Abolition testimony on the
subject; Gerrit Smith; New York _Tribune_; Their
moral condition as indicated by proportions in
Penitentiaries; Census Reports; Native whites,
foreign born, and free colored, in Penitentiaries;
But little improvement in Massachusetts in seventy