Colonization Society, August 18, 1831.]

'While, therefore, _they determined to avoid the question of
slavery_, they proposed the formation of a colony on the coast
of Africa, as an asylum for free people of color.' * * * 'The
emancipation of slaves or the amelioration of their condition,
with the moral, intellectual, and political improvement of
people of color within the United States, _are subjects foreign
to the powers of this Society_.'--[Address of the Board of
Managers of the American Colonization Society to its Auxiliary
Societies.--African Repository, vol. vii. pp. 290, 291.]

'The American Colonization Society was formed with special
reference to the _free_ blacks of our country. With the
_delicate subject_ of slavery it presumes not to interfere. And
yet doubtless from the first it has cherished the hope of being
in some way or other a medium of relief to the entire colored
population of the land. Such a hope is certainly both innocent
and benevolent. And so long as the Society adheres to the object
announced in its constitution, as it hitherto has done, the
master can surely find no reasonable cause of anxiety. And it is
a gratifying circumstance that the Society has from the first
_obtained its most decided and efficient support from the
slaveholding States_.'--[Sermon, delivered at Springfield,
Mass., July 4th, 1829, before the Auxiliary Colonization Society
of Hampden County, by Rev. B. Dickinson.]

'The American Colonization Society in no way directly meddles
with slavery. It disclaims all such
interference.'--[Correspondent of the Southern Religious
Telegraph.]

'This system is sanctioned by the laws of independent and
sovereign states. Congress cannot constitutionally pass laws
which shall tend directly to abolish it. If it ever be abolished
by legislative enactments, it must be done by the respective
legislatures of the States in which it exists. It never designed
to interfere with what the laws consider as the rights of
masters--it has made no appeals to them to release their slaves
for colonization, nor to their slaves to abandon their masters.
With this delicate subject, the Society has avowedly nothing to
do. Its ostensible object is necessarily the removal of our free
colored population.'--[Middletown (Connecticut) Gazette.]