n with any faction that may threaten its
liberties?' * * * 'The existence of this race among us; a race
that can neither share our blessings nor incorporate in our
society, is already felt to be a curse; and though the only
curse entailed on us, if left to take its course, it will become
the greatest that could befal the nation.

'Shall we then cling to it, and by refusing the timely expedient
now offered for deliverance, retain and foster the _alien
enemies_, till they have multiplied into such greater numbers,
and risen into such mightier consequence as will for ever bar
the possibility of their departure, and by barring it, bar also
the possibility of fulfilling our own high destiny?' * * 'The
object of this Society is two-fold; for while it immediately and
ostensibly directs its energies to the amelioration of the
condition of the free people of color, it relieves our country
from an unprofitable burden, and which, if much longer submitted
to, may record upon our history the dreadful cries of vengeance
that but a few years since were registered in characters of
blood at St. Domingo.' * * 'It is the removal of the _free_
blacks from among us, that is to save us, sooner or later, from
those dreadful events foreboded by Mr Jefferson, or from the
horrors of St. Domingo. The present number of this unfortunate,
degraded, and anomalous class of inhabitants cannot be much
short of half a million; and the number is fast increasing. They
are emphatically a mildew upon our fields, a scourge to our
backs, and a stain upon our escutcheon. To remove them is mercy
to ourselves, and justice to them.'--[African Repository, vol.
v. pp. 28, 51, 88, 278, 304, 348.]

'All admit the utility of the separation of the free people of
color from the residue of the population of the United States,
if it be practicable. It is desirable for them, _for the slaves
of the United States_, and for the white race. The vices of this
class do not spring from any inherent depravity in their natural
constitution, but from their unfortunate situation. Social
intercourse is a want which we are prompted to gratify by all
the properties of our nature. And as they cannot obtain it in
the better circles of society, nor always among themselves,
they resort to slaves and to the most debased and worthless of
t