eeply deplores. They constitute a large mass of
human beings, who hang as a vile excrescence upon society--the
objects of a low debasing envy to our slaves, and to ourselves
of universal suspicion and distrust.' * * 'If this process were
continued a second term of duplication, it would produce the
extraordinary result of forty white men to one black in the
country--a state of things in which we should not only cease to
feel the burdens which now hang so heavily upon us, but actually
regard the poor African as an object of curiosity, and not
uneasiness.' * * 'Enough, under favorable circumstances, might
be removed for a few successive years--if young _females_ were
encouraged to go--to keep the whole colored population in
check.'--[African Repository, vol. vii. pp. 230, 232, 246.]

'The existence of such a population among us is a most manifest
evil. And every year adds to its threatening aspect. They are
more than a sixth of our population! Their ratio of increase
exceeds that of the whites. They have all the lofty and immortal
powers of man. And the time must arrive, when they will
fearlessly claim the prerogatives of man. They may do it in the
spirit of revenge. They may do it in the spirit of desperation.
And the result of such a mustering of their energies--who can
look at it even in distant prospect without horror? Almost as
numerous are they now, as our whole population when this nation
stood forth for freedom in a contest with the mightiest power of
the civilized world. And if nothing is done to _arrest their
increase_, we shall have in twenty years four millions of
slaves; in forty years eight millions; in sixty years sixteen
millions, and a million of free blacks;--seventeen millions of
people; seven millions more than our present white
population;--enough for a powerful empire! And how can they be
governed? Who can foretel those scenes of carnage and terror
which our own children may witness, unless a seasonable remedy
be applied? The remedy is now within our reach. _We can stop
their increase_; we can diminish their number.'--[Rev. Baxter
Dickinson's Sermon delivered at Springfield, Mass. in 1829.]

'We have a numerous people, who, though they are among us, are
not of us; who are aliens and outcasts in the land of their
birth. A people whose condition is deg