suffered to avail themselves of it. They are no where
admitted as judge, juror, or counsellor. They are no where eligible to
any office of profit, trust, or honor. Their children are no where
admitted into the same school-room with the whites. They are no where
protected, encouraged, and rewarded in all the North. They are victims
of injustice, scorned and despised in every free state in this
confederacy. And abolitionists are as far from making equals of them,
or associating with them, as any one else.

The city of Baltimore presents the largest and most intelligent mass
of free negroes found in the United States. These in an appeal to the
citizens of Baltimore, and through them to the people of the United
States, say, "we reside among you, and yet are strangers,--natives,
yet not citizens--surrounded by the freest people and the most
republican institutions in the world, and yet we enjoy none of the
immunities of freedom. As long as we remain among you, we shall be a
distinct race--an extraneous mass of men irrecoverably excluded from
your institutions. Though we are not slaves--_we are not free_."

Judge Blackford, speaking of free negroes, says, "They are of no
service here, (in the free states,) to the community or themselves.
They live in a country, the favorite abode of liberty, without the
enjoyment of her rights."

Dr. Miller says, "if liberated and left among the whites, they would
be a constant source of corruption, annoyance and danger. They could
never be trusted as faithful citizens."

There is at last no sympathy between the two races, except in the
slave states. There, for the most part, we find kind feelings and
strong attachments between the slaves and the families in which they
reside. I must, however, refer the reader to other parts of this
volume for additional remarks on the subjects discussed in the
preceding pages,--more particularly to chapters, 4, 5, 6, 7. But I
would ask, in the name of all that is sacred, what advantage, what
benefit under these circumstances is conferred on the Southern slaves
by emancipation? I know from personal observation, that Southern
slaves are better fed, better clothed, and better housed than are free
negroes, either North or South; in short, they are better paid for
their labor. The South is the only part of the United States, where
ministers of the gospel are successful in Christianizing the African
race--the only part of the United States where there is anyt