f the American
Colonization Society, Washington city," signed by Arthur Tappan and
others, the following words: "We will not insult your understanding, sir,
with any labored attempt to prove to you that the descendants of African
parents, born in this country, have as good a claim to a residence in it,
as the descendants of English, German, Danish, Scotch, or Irish parents.
You will not attempt to prove that every native colored person you meet
in the streets, has not the same right to remain in this his native land,
that you and we have. Assuming this as an incontrovertable truth, we
hold it self-evident that they have as good right to deport us to Europe,
under the pretext that there we shall be prosperous and happy, as we have
to deport them to Africa on a similar plea."

And in another part thereof, in the said reply, the following words:
"In what language could the unrighteous principles of denying freedom
to colored people in this country, (which amounts to the same thing as
demanding the expulsion of those already free,) be more effectually and
yet more plausibly inculcated than in those very words of Gen. Harper
you have, with so much approbation, quoted to us."

And in another part thereof, in the said reply, the following words:
"Against this doctrine of suspending emancipation upon the contingency
or condition of expatriation we feel bound to protest; because we
believe that every man has a right to reside in his native country if he
chooses, and that every man's native country is the country in which he
was born--that no man's right to freedom is suspended upon, or taken
away by his desire to remain in his native country--that to make a
removal from one's own native country a _sine qua non_ of setting him
free when held in involuntary bondage, is the climax of moral absurdity."

And in another part thereof, in a certain other article, entitled "Three
months' residence, or seven weeks on a sugar plantation, by Henry
Whitby," containing the most shocking and disgusting details of cruel,
inhuman, and immoral treatment of slaves by the owners and overseers,
and attorneys or agents of proprietors, according to the tenor and
effect following--that is to say: "On this and other occasions, I thought
it my duty to acquaint the attorney with my observations and feelings
in regard to the cruel floggings and severe treatment generally which
I have witnessed at New Ground. He admitted the facts, but said that
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