ly!'--[African Repository, vol. i. p. 347.]

'For several years the subject of abolition of slavery has been
brought before you. I am decidedly opposed to the project
recommended. NO SCHEME OF ABOLITION WILL MEET MY SUPPORT, THAT
LEAVES THE EMANCIPATED BLACKS AMONG US. Experience has proved,
that they become a corrupt and degraded class, as burthensome to
themselves as they are hurtful to the rest of society. To permit
the blacks to remain amongst us, after their emancipation, would
be to aggravate and not to cure the evil.'--[Idem, vol. ii. pp.
188, 189.]

'We would say, LIBERATE THEM ONLY ON CONDITION OF THEIR GOING TO
AFRICA OR TO HAYTI.'--[Idem, vol. iii. p. 26.]

'_I am not complaining of the owners of slaves_; IT WOULD BE AS
HUMANE TO THROW THEM FROM THE DECKS IN THE MIDDLE PASSAGE, AS TO
SET THEM FREE IN OUR COUNTRY.' * * * 'The Colonization Society,
I undertake to show, presents such a scheme. Slaveholders have
given it their approbation; they will approve it, and they can
approve of no other. _Any scheme of emancipation without
colonization_, they know and see and feel to be productive of
nothing but evil; evil to all whom it affects: to the white
population, to the slaves, to the _manumitted themselves_.' * *
'Throughout the slaveholding States there is a strong objection,
even among the warmest friends of the African race, to slaves
being liberated and allowed to remain among us; and some States
have enacted laws against it. _The objection is, in our
individual opinion, well founded._'--[Idem, vol. iv. pp. 226,
300, 340.]

'In connexion with this subject, your memorialists beg leave to
mention, that by an act of the Virginia Legislature, passed in
1805, emancipated slaves forfeit their freedom by remaining for
a longer period than twelve months, within the limits of the
Commonwealth. This law, odious and unjust as it may at first
view appear, and hard as it may seem to bear upon the liberated
negro, was doubtless dictated by sound policy, and _its repeal
would be regarded by none with more unfeigned regret, than by
the friends of African Colonization_. It has restrained many
masters from giving freedom to their slaves, and has thereby
contributed to check the growth of an evil _already too great
and formidable_.' * * 'Under the influence of a poli