ness, exhibited in some persons of their own
complexion, roaming in idleness and vice among them. By removing
the most fruitful source of discontent from among our slaves, we
should render them more industrious and attentive to our
commands.'--[Fourteenth Annual Report.]

'What is the free black to the slave? A standing perpetual
incitement to discontent. Though the condition of the slave be a
thousand times the best--supplied, protected, instead of
destitute and desolate--yet, the folly of the condition, held to
involuntary labor, finds, always, allurement, in the spectacle
of exemption from it, without consideration of the adjuncts of
destitution and misery. The slave would have then, little
excitement to discontent but for the free black.'--[Fifteenth
Annual Report.]

'The evils which arise from the communication of the free people
of color with our slaves, must be obvious to every reflecting
mind; and the consequences which may result from this
communication at some future day, when circumstances are more
favorable to their views, are of a more alarming character. Sir,
circumstances must have brought us to the conclusion, if our
observation had not enabled us to make the remark, that it is
natural for our slaves, so closely allied to the free black
population by national peculiarities, and by relationship, to
make a comparison between their respective conditions, and to
repine at the difference which exists between them. This is a
serious evil, and can only be removed _by preventing the
possibility of a comparison_.

'By removing these people, we rid ourselves of a large party who
will always be ready to assist our slaves in any mischievous
design which they may conceive; and who are better able, by
their intelligence, and the facilities of their communication,
to bring those designs to a successful termination.'--[African
Repository, vol. i. p. 176.]

'The labors of the Colonization Society appear to us highly
deserving of praise. The blacks, whom they carry from the
country, belong to a class far more noxious than the slaves
themselves. They are free without any sense of character to
restrain them, or regular means of obtaining an honest
livelihood. Most of the criminal offences committed in the
southern States are chargeable to them, and their infl