he whites. Corruption, and all the train of petty offences, are
the consequences. Proprietors of slaves in whose neighborhood
any free colored family is situated, know how infectious and
pernicious this intercourse is.' * * * 'Who, if this promiscuous
residence of whites and blacks, of freemen and slaves, is for
ever to continue, can imagine the servile wars, the carnage and
the crimes which will be its probable consequences, without
shuddering with horror?' * * 'It were madness to shut our eyes
to these facts and conclusions. This rapid increase of the
blacks is as certain as the progress of time. The fatal
consequences of that increase, if it be not checked, are equally
so. Something must be done. The American Colonization Society
proposes a remedy--the removal to Africa of the blacks who are
free, or shall hereafter become so, with their consent.' * *
'The colored population is considered by the people of Tennessee
and Alabama in general, as an immense evil to the country--but
the free part of it, by all, as the greatest of all evils....
They feel severely the effects of the deleterious influence
which the free negroes exert upon the slaves--and they look,
moreover, into futurity, and there they behold an appalling
scene--in less than one hundred years, (a short time, we should
hope, in the life of this republic,) 16,000,000 of blacks.'
* * * * 'Since the recent revolution in the island of St. Domingo,
which has placed it in the hands of the African race, it was
thought by some that there an asylum might be found for this
part of our population. But to that place there were also
serious objections, which would prevent its adoption to any
considerable extent. The nearness of that Island to our southern
borders, and the evil consequences that might result from
embodying the free persons of color in the vicinity of those
parts of the United States, where slaves are so numerous,
forbade the friends of humanity to provide a home for them in
that Island.'--[African Repository, vol. vi. pp. 17, 23, 68, 77,
226.]

'The existence, within the very bosom of our country, of an
anomalous race of beings, the most debased upon earth, who
neither enjoy the blessings of freedom, nor are yet in the bonds
of slavery, is a great national evil, which every friend of his
country most d