th Annual Report.]

'I MAY BE PERMITTED TO DECLARE THAT I WOULD BE A SLAVEHOLDER
TO-DAY WITHOUT SCRUPLE.'--[Fourteenth Annual Report.]

'For the existence of slavery in the United States, those, and
those only, are accountable who bore a part in originating such
a constitution of society. The bible contains no explicit
prohibition of slavery. There is neither chapter nor verse of
holy writ, which lends any countenance to the fulminating spirit
of universal emancipation, of which some exhibitions may be seen
in some of the newspapers.' * * * 'The embarrassment which many
a philanthropic proprietor has felt in relation to his slaves,
has been but little known at the north, and has had but little
sympathy. He finds himself the lord of perhaps a hundred human
beings; and is anxious to do them all the good in his power. He
would emancipate them; but if he does, their prospect of
happiness can hardly be said to be improved by the change. Some
half a dozen, perhaps, in the hundred, become industrious and
useful members of society; and the rest are mere vagabonds,
idle, wicked, and miserable.'

--[Review on African Colonization.--Vide the Christian Spectator
for September, 1830, in which the reader will find an elaborate
apology for the system of slavery, and this, too, by a
clergyman!]

'The existence of slavery among us, though not at all to be
objected to our southern brethren as a _fault_, is yet a blot on
our national character, and a mighty drawback from our national
strength.'--[Second Annual Report of the N. Y. State Col. Soc.]

'Entertaining these views of this fearful subject, why should
our opponents endeavor to prejudice our cause with our southern
friends? And we are the more anxious on this point, for we
sincerely entertain exalted notions of their sense of right, of
their manliness and independence of feeling--of their dignity of
deportment--of their honorable and chivalric turn of thought,
which spurns a mean act as death. And if I was allowed to
indulge a personal feeling, I would say that there is something
to my mind in the candor, hospitality and intelligence of the
South, which charms and captives, which wins its way to the
heart and gives assurance of all that is upright, honorable, and
humane. There is no people that treat their slaves with s