ulterior views diverse from the object avowed in the
constitution; and having declared that it is in nowise allied to
any Abolition Society in America or elsewhere, is ready whenever
there is need TO PASS A CENSURE UPON SUCH SOCIETIES IN
AMERICA.'--[Speech of Mr Harrison of Virginia.--Eleventh Annual
Report.]

'We have the same interests in this subject with our southern
brethren--the same opportunity of understanding it, and of
knowing with what _care_ and _prudence_ it should be approached.
What greater pledge can we give for the moderation and safety of
our measures than our own interests as slaveholders, and the
ties that bind us to the slaveholding communities to which we
belong?'--[Speech of Mr Key.--Same Report.]

'The second objection may be resolved into this; that the
Society, under the specious pretext of removing a vicious and
noxious population, is secretly undermining the rights of
private property. This is the objection expressed in its full
force, and if your memorialists could for a moment believe it to
be true in point of fact, they would never, _slaveholders as
they are_, have associated themselves together for the purpose
of co-operating with the Parent Society; and far less would they
have appeared in the character in which they now do, before the
legislative bodies of a slaveholding State. And, if any instance
could be now adduced, in which the Society has ever manifested
even an intention to depart from the avowed object, for the
promotion of which it was originally instituted, none would with
more willingness and readiness withdraw from it their
countenance and support. But, from the time of its formation,
down to the present period, all its operations have been
directed exclusively to the promotion of its one grand object,
namely, the colonization in Africa of the free people of color
of the United States. It has always protested, and through your
memorialists it again protests, that _it has no wish to
interfere_ with the delicate but important subject of slavery.
It has never, in a solitary instance, addressed itself to the
slave. It has never sought to invade the tranquillity of the
domestic circle, nor the peace and safety of
society.'--[Memorial of the Auxiliary Colonization Society of
Powhatan, to the Legislature of Virginia.--T