age, because _they are convinced that
they can do no better_.'--[Address of the Managers of the
Colonization Society of Connecticut.--Af. Rep. vol. iv. pp. 119,
120.]

'I AM NOT COMPLAINING OF THE OWNERS OF SLAVES; they cannot get
rid of them.--_I do not doubt that masters treat their slaves
with kindness_, nor that the slaves are happier than they could
be if set free in this country.'--[Address delivered before the
Hampden Col. Soc., July 4th, 1828, by Wm. B. O. Peabody, Esq.]

'_Policy_, and even _the voice of humanity_ forbade the progress
of manumission; and the _salutary hand of law_ came forward to
co-operate with our convictions, and to arrest the flow of our
feelings, and the ardor of our desires.'--[Review of the Report
of the Committee of Foreign Relations.--Af. Rep. vol. iv. p.
268.]

'When an owner of slaves tells me that he will freely relinquish
his slaves, or even that he will relinquish one-half of their
value, _on condition that he be compensated for the other half_,
and provision be made for their transportation, I feel that he
has made a generous proposal, and _I cannot charge him with all
the guilt of slavery_, though he may continue to be a
slaveholder.'--[Af. Rep. vol. v. p. 63.]

'Even slavery must be viewed as a great national calamity; a
public evil entailed upon us by untoward circumstances, _and
perpetuated for the want of appropriate remedies_.'--[Idem, vol.
v. p. 89.]

'Slavery is an evil which is entailed upon the present
generation of slaveholders, which they must suffer, _whether
they will or not_.'--[Idem, p. 179.]

'Our brethren of the South, have the same sympathies, the same
moral sentiments, the same love of liberty as ourselves. By them
as by us, slavery is felt to be an evil, a hindrance to our
prosperity, and a blot upon our character. But it was in being
when they were born, and has been forced upon them by a previous
generation.'--[Address of Rev. Dr. Nott.--Idem, p. 277.]

'With a writer in the Southern Review we say, "the situation of
the people of these States was not of their choosing. When they
came to the inheritance, it was subject to this mighty
incumbrance, and it would be criminal in them to rain or waste
the estate, to get rid of the burden at once." With this writer
we add also, in the