em from preying on those among whom
they live.'--[Middletown (Ct.) Gazette.]

'They have taken the free black that, as a class, dwells among
us a living nuisance, nominally free, but bowed to the ground by
public opinion--IN ONE PART OF THE COUNTRY DULL AS A BRUTISH
BEAST, IN ANOTHER THE WILD STIRRER UP OF SEDITION AND
INSURRECTION--they have shewn him to be capable of quiet and
judicious self-government.-- ... We cannot shut our eyes any
longer upon the disadvantages of our black population, whether
in slavery or freedom. It is a sword perpetually suspended over
our heads by a single hair; it is the fountain of bitter waters
that poisons all our enjoyments.'--[Speeches of J. R. Townsend,
Esq. and W. W. Campbell, Esq. New-York city.]

'The fact was most glaring, without an inquiry, that the same
shackles which bound them, fastened them also to the resources
of the soil, and the interests of the community; and when these
were broken, and the incentives of authority removed, the weight
of ignorance, the want of better incentives, and the fatal and
untried power of grateful but ruinous idleness, sunk them to a
state, which, however elevated in theory, was in fact more
degraded and more miserable than that of bondage. In addition to
all this, pauperism, with the numerous evils of corrupt and
corrupting indolence, threatened to impose its sluggish weight
upon a groaning community. Hence, the progress of emancipation
was, for the time, most righteously arrested.'--[Address of the
Board of Managers of the African Education Society.]

'Who are the free people of color in the United States? In what
circumstances does philanthropy find them! There are indeed
individuals and families, who are sober, industrious, pious. But
what are the remainder, the mass? Every one knows that their
condition is deep and wretched degradation; but, only a few have
ever formed any accurate conception of the reality. The fact is,
that as a class they are branded. They have no home, no country,
no such personal interest in the welfare of the community, as
gives a certain degree of manliness to almost every white
man.... Three hundred thousand freemen in this country, are
freemen only in name, forming only little else than a mass of
pauperism and crime.... Here the black man is paralysed and
c