ll have transferred themselves, by
our assistance, from slavery or degradation here, to peace, and
plenty, and power, and prosperity, and liberty, and
independence, in a land which Providence originally gave
them.'--[Baltimore Gazette.]

'It tends, and may powerfully tend, to rid us gradually and
entirely, in the United States, of slaves and slavery: a great
moral and political evil, of increasing virulence and extent,
from which much mischief is now felt, and very great calamity in
future is justly apprehended.'--[First Annual Report.]

'What can be done to mitigate or prevent the existing and
apprehended evils, resulting from our black population?
EMANCIPATION, WITHOUT REMOVAL FROM THE COUNTRY, IS OUT OF THE
QUESTION.' * * 'As long as our present feelings and prejudices
exist, the abolition of slavery cannot be accomplished without
the removal of the blacks--THEY CANNOT BE EMANCIPATED AS A
PEOPLE, AND REMAIN AMONG US.'--[Second Annual Report of the
New-York State Col. Soc.]

'It would gladly, however, grasp at a still grander object--that
of restoring to the land of their fathers the whole colored race
within our borders. Nor probably will it be satisfied to rest
from its labors, till this object, in all its magnitude, is
accomplished.'--[Rev. Baxter Dickinson's Sermon.]

'It must appear evident to all, that every endeavor to divert
the attention of the community, or even a portion of the means,
which the present crisis to imperatively calls for, from the
Colonization Society, to measures calculated to bind the colored
population to this country and seeking to raise them (_an
impossibility_) to a level with the whites, whether by founding
colleges or in any other way, tends directly in the proportion
that it succeeds, to counteract and thwart the whole plan of
colonization. Although none would rejoice more than myself to
see this unhappy race elevated to the highest scale of human
being, it has always seemed to me that this country was not the
theatre for such a change. Far happier they, far happier we, had
they never touched our soil, or breathed our air. As it is, to
attain solid happiness and permanent respectability, they should
now remove to a more congenial clime.'--[New Haven Religious
Intelligencer for July, 1831.]

'The recent murderous mo