iety; and from that station _he can
never rise_, BE HIS TALENTS, HIS ENTERPRISE, HIS VIRTUES WHAT
THEY MAY.... They constitute a class by themselves--a class out
of which _no individual can be elevated_, and below which, none
can be depressed. And this is the difficulty, the invariable and
insuperable difficulty in the way of every scheme for their
benefit. Much can be done for them--much has been done; but
still they are, and, _in this country_, ALWAYS MUST BE a
depressed and abject race.'--[African Repository, vol. iv. pp.
117, 118, 119.]

'The distinctive complexion by which it is marked, _necessarily_
debars it from all familiar intercourse with the more favored
society that surrounds it, and of course denies to it _all hope_
of either social or political elevation, by means of individual
merit, however great, or individual exertions, however
unremitted.' * * 'It is deemed unnecessary to repeat what has
already been said, of the character of the population in
question, of its _hopeless degradation_, and its baneful
influence, in the situation in which it is now placed.' * * *
'The colored population of this country can _never_ rise to
respectability and happiness here.' * * 'It was at an early
period seen and acknowledged, that neither the objects of
benevolence nor the interests of the nation could be materially
benefitted by any plan or measures that permitted them to remain
within the United States.' * * 'They leave a country in which
though born and reared, they are strangers and aliens; where
severe necessity places them in a class of degraded beings.' * *
'With us they have been degraded by slavery, and STILL FURTHER
DEGRADED _by the mockery of nominal freedom_. We have
endeavored, but endeavored in vain, to restore them either to
self-respect, or to the respect of others. _It is not our fault
that we have failed_; it is not theirs. It has resulted from a
cause over which neither they, nor we, can ever have control.
_Here_, therefore, they must be _for ever debased_: more than
this, they must be _for ever useless_; more even than this, they
must be FOR EVER A NUISANCE, from which it were a blessing for
society to be rid. And yet they, and they only, are qualified
for colonizing Africa.' * * * 'Whether bond or free, their
presence will be _for ever a calamit