nywhere in the Northern States.
Not only the prejudices, but also the laws of the free states proclaim
it impossible: and the prejudices of the whites against the African
race is stronger in the free states, than it is in the slave states.
Every free state in this Union is disposed to cast them off as a
nuisance. They cannot bear their presence. Their very color renders
them odious; and this aversion to the African race, is daily becoming
stronger and stronger in every free state in this union. Nothing can
counteract it--nothing can overcome it. It is in the very nature of
things impossible. No, no! Negro novels piled mountain high in every
street and alley, in every city and village in this Union, will
accomplish nothing for the poor despised African. "Can the Ethiopian
change his skin, or the leopard his spots," then may ye who are
accustomed to loathe, shun, and cast off the African race, receive
them to your kind embraces.

It is true that abolitionists affect to have a great deal of sympathy
for them while they are slaves in the South, but they have none for
the ignorant, degraded, half starved, ill clad, free negroes in the
North. No wonder, for their Southern sympathy costs them nothing, but
Northern sympathy might empty their purses. Show me the abolitionist
who is willing to meet the free negro on terms of equality. No man can
point to one--no, not one. The African is neglected, scorned, and
trodden under foot every where; by abolitionists and every one else.
This prejudice is invincible, irremediable. The poor African is
hopelessly and irretrievably doomed to scorn, contempt and degradation
while in the midst of the white race. Is the African allowed the
ordinary privileges of the white man any where in all the liberty
loving North? Show me the spot! Where is it? Show me the state--show
me the neighborhood--the man--the woman among all the white race in
all the North, who is willing to allow the despised African, the
ordinary privileges of white men. Ah! you cannot do it. Shame! shame!
Hold! cease,--for God's sake cease your hypocritical cant about
Southern slavery. No! no! there is not a state in all this union where
they enjoy the privileges of white men. There is not--there never has
been--and there never will be! They are no where equal parties in an
action at law. They are no where credible witnesses against white men.
They are no where allowed the right of suffrage; or if the law allows
it, they are not