le with
disgust, because, in the physical organization of his frame, we
meet an insurmountable barrier, even to an approach to social
intercourse, and in the Egyptian color, which nature has stamped
upon his features, a principle of repulsion so strong as to
forbid the idea of a communion either of interest or of feeling,
as utterly abhorrent. Whether these feelings are founded in
reason or not, we will not now inquire--perhaps they are not.
But education and habit, and prejudice have so firmly riveted
them upon us, that they have become as strong as nature
itself--and to expect their removal, or even their slightest
modification, would be as idle and preposterous as to expect
that we could reach forth our hands, and remove the mountains
from their foundations into the vallies, which are beneath
them.'--[African Repository, vol. vii. pp. 230, 331.]

'We have been charged with wishing only to remove our free
blacks, that we may the more effectually rivet the chains of the
slave. But the class we first seek to remove, are neither
freemen nor slaves; _but between both_, AND MORE MISERABLE THAN
EITHER.' * * * 'Who is there, that does not know something of
the condition of the blacks in the northern and middle States?
They may be seen in our cities and larger towns, wandering like
foreigners and outcasts, in the land which gave them birth. They
may be seen in our penitentiaries, and jails, and poor-houses.
They may be found inhabiting the abodes of poverty, and the
haunts of vice. But if we look for them in the society of the
honest and respectable--if we visit the schools in which it is
our boast that the meanest citizen can enjoy the benefits of
instruction--we might also add, if we visit the sanctuaries
which are open for all to worship,[S] and to hear the word of
God; we shall not find them there.' * * 'Leaving slavery and its
subjects for the moment entirely out of view, there are in the
United States 238,000 blacks denominated free, but whose freedom
confers on them, we might say, no privilege but the _privilege
of being more vicious and miserable than slaves can
be_.'--[Seventh Annual Report, pp. 12, 87, 99.]

'Placed midway between freedom and slavery, they know neither
the incentives of the one, nor the restraints of the other; but
are alike injurious by their