d even a disposition to interfere in any way with the
_rights of proprietors of slaves_.' * * 'The slaveholder, so far
from having just cause to complain of the Colonization Society,
has reason to congratulate himself, that in this Institution a
channel is opened up, in which the public feeling and public
action can flow on, without doing violence to his
_rights_.'--[African Repository, vol. vi. pp. 13, 69, 81, 153,
165, 169, 205, 363.]

'It was proper again and again to repeat, that it was far from
the intention of the Society to affect, in any manner, the
tenure by which a _certain species of property_ is held. He was
himself a slaveholder; _and he considered that kind of property
as inviolable as any other in the country_.'--[Speech of Henry
Clay.--First Annual Report.]

'Your committee would not thus favorably regard the prayer of
the memorialists, if it sought to impair, _in the slightest
degree, the rights of private property_.'--[Report of the
committee of the House of Representatives of the United States,
on the memorial of the President and Board of Managers of the
Colonization Society.--Second Annual Report.]

'The Society has at all times recognised the constitutional and
LEGITIMATE existence of slavery.'--[Tenth Annual Report.]

'The Society protests that it has no designs on the rights of
the master in the slave--or the property in his slave, which the
laws guarantee to him.'--[Fourteenth Annual Report.]

'Something he must yet be allowed to say, as regarded the object
the Society was set up to accomplish. This object, if he
understood it aright, _involved no intrusion on property_, NOR
EVEN UPON PREJUDICE.'--[Fifteenth Annual Report.]

'To the slaveholder, who had charged upon them the wicked design
of interfering with the RIGHTS OF PROPERTY under the specious
pretext of removing a vicious and dangerous free population,
they address themselves in a tone of conciliation and sympathy.
We know your rights, say they, and _we respect them_.' * *
'Equally absurd and false is the objection, that this Society
seeks indirectly to disturb the rights of property, and to
interfere with the well established relation subsisting between
master and slave.'--[African Repository, vol. vii. pp. 100,
228.]

'I repeat, that though not a slaveholder, y