lding up, in the
vicinity of our own nation, a mighty empire, from a race of men,
_so unlike ourselves_? But, if the removal be to Africa, then it
is to a _happy distance_ from us and to their father land....
Then let it aid in removing that population, which, under its
peculiar relation to the whites, and under its degrading social
and civil disabilities, is a most fruitful source of national
dishonor, demoralization, weakness and _horrid
danger_.'--[Memorial of the New-York State Colonization
Society.]

'The males removed should be persons between 16 and 17 years of
age; the females between 13 and 14. Now as a number would be
annually removed equal to the whole increase, and as that number
would be composed of individuals, of such ages that their
removal would affect the future increase of the race in the
greatest possible degree, I believe that their numbers would not
only not increase, but would diminish. And the number removed
might be increased as the proportion of white persons in the
State became greater, until the removal reached a point at which
all the males who attained the age of sixteen, and all the
females who attained the age of fourteen, in any given year,
would during that year be removed.'--[Petersburg (Va.) Times.]

'They are well calculated to render the slaves sullen,
discontented, unhappy and refractory--and the masters
suspicious, fearful of consequences, and disposed to enhance the
rigor of the condition of their slaves, in order to avert the
dangers that appear to impend over them from the promulgation of
the anti-slavery doctrines; thus, in this case, as in so many
others, the imprudent zeal of friends is likely to produce as
much substantial injury as the animosity of decided enemies
could accomplish.'--[Mathew Carey's Essays.]

'Hatred to the whites is, with the exception in some cases of an
attachment to the person and family of the master, nearly
universal among the black population. We have then a foe,
cherished in our very bosoms--a foe willing to draw our
life-blood whenever the opportunity is offered, and, in the mean
time, intent upon doing us all the mischief in his
power.'--[Southern Religious Telegraph.]

Does the reader wish for any additional proof that the governing motive
of the American Colonization Society is fear--und