r transiently, but _inevitably_ and _immutably_,
whilst they remained in their present place, by a law as
infallible in its operation, as any of physical nature.' * *
'Their residence amongst us is attended by evil consequences to
society--causes _beyond the control of the human will_ must
prevent their _ever_ rising to equality with the whites.' * *
'The Managers consider it clear that causes exist, and are
operating to prevent their improvement and elevation to any
considerable extent as a class, in this country, which are
fixed, not only beyond the control of the friends of humanity,
BUT OF ANY HUMAN POWER. _Christianity cannot do for them here,
what it will do for them in Africa._ This is not the fault of
the colored man, _nor of the white man, nor of Christianity; but
an ordination of Providence, and no more to be changed than the
laws of nature_. Yet, were it otherwise, did no cause exist but
prejudice, to prevent the elevation, in this country, of our
free colored population, still, were this prejudice so strong
(which is indeed the fact) as to forbid the hope of any great
favorable change in their condition, what folly for them to
reject blessings in another land, because it is prejudice which
debars them from such blessings in this! But in truth no
legislation, no humanity, no benevolence can make them
insensible to their past condition, can unfetter their minds,
can relieve them from the disadvantages resulting from inferior
means and attainments, can abridge the right of freemen to
regulate their social intercourse and relations, which will
leave them _for ever a separate and depressed class_ in the
community; in fine, nothing can in any way do much here to raise
them from their miseries to respectability, honor and
usefulness.'--[Fifteenth Annual Report.]

'That no adequate means of attaining this great end existed,
short of the segregation of the black population from the
white--that an IMPASSIBLE BARRIER existed in the state of
society in this country, between these classes--that whatever
might be the liberal sentiments of some good men among us, the
blacks were marked with an _indelible note of inferiority_--they
saw placed high before them a station which here they _could
never reach_, and by a natural reaction they fell back into a
position where sel