n the steady and violent animosity of those white fanatics,
who, setting themselves up as the peculiar friends of the blacks,
represented that the prejudice against their color was merely an
arbitrary sentiment, which time would weaken or entirely dissipate; and
that they might still look forward to enjoying, in this country, an
equality in social and political rights with the whites.

This assumption of peculiar friendliness on the part of the
Abolitionists, and the plausible reasonings with which they approached
their "colored friends," have acquired the confidence of the latter, who
are now, however, beginning to awake to a just idea of their condition
and future prospects in this country. They have discovered that the
loud-mouthed protestations of the Abolitionists, are the mere
effervescence of an intermeddling and dangerous faction, against whose
principles the whole Union--whose destruction they have meditated--has
pronounced in tones of thunder; a faction whose baleful alliance is
shunned most religiously, by both of the great parties of the country.
They have discovered that underground railroads are a device to inveigle
the slaves from a condition of comparative comfort, into the _freedom of
starvation_, with a poor display of political privileges, which are
mockery in view of their exercise by an ignorant and despised minority;
that the expectations fostered in behalf of the free blacks are proved
to be entirely futile by the continued attitude of opposition held
towards them, when there is a question of lessening the social and
political gulf which divides the races. They discover that the rapid
immigration of whites from every quarter, is encroaching upon their
employments, and lessening their chance of gaining a thrifty livelihood,
even in those menial pursuits to which they are chiefly limited.

With the spread of education, and the expansion of republican ideas,
they become more sensible of their own anomalous and degraded condition,
and the result is a yearning to be free like those around them, to have
a land all their own, to have rights unquestioned by any superior color,
to go wherever such privileges may be obtained. They see in the growing
republics on the West coast of Africa, a living refutation of the
calumnies of the Abolitionists against the colonizationists, a land
where, from simple citizens