f-respect lent them no stimulus, and virtuous
principles and actions lost more than half their motive--that in
fact they were a branded and degraded caste--the Pariahs of the
United States, and destined _as long as they remained with us_
to be hewers of wood and drawers of water--that the increase of
this population in a greater ratio than the whites, was
calculated to excite just apprehension--that no one could say
that when a few more millions should be added to their numbers,
the example of Hayti might not rouse them to an effort to break
their chains; and he would ask what man could contemplate,
without shuddering, all the complicated atrocity and bloody
revenge of such a revolt?' * * 'Those persons of color who have
been emancipated, are only nominally free, and the whole race,
so long as they remain among us, and whether they be slaves or
free, must _necessarily_ be kept in a condition full of
wretchedness to them and full of danger to the whites.'--[Second
Annual Report of New-York State Colonization Society.]

'Many of those citizens who ardently wish for the removal of
such of the free colored population, as are willing to go, to
any place where they could enjoy, _what they can never enjoy
here_, that is, all the advantages of society,' &c. * * 'That
the free colored population in this country labor under the most
oppressive disadvantages, which their freedom can by no means
counterbalance, is too obvious to admit of doubt. I waive all
inquiry whether this is right or wrong. I speak of things as
they are--not as they might, or as they ought to be. They are
cut off from the most remote chance of amalgamation with the
white population, by feelings or prejudices, call them what you
will, that are ineradicable. Their situation is more unfavorable
than that of many slaves. "With all the burdens, cares and
responsibilities of freedom, they have few or none of its
substantial benefits. Their associations are, and must be,
chiefly with slaves. Their right of suffrage gives them little,
if any, political influence, and they are practically, if not
theoretically excluded from representation and weight in our
public councils." _No merit, no services, no talents can elevate
them to a level with the whites._ Occasionally, an exception may
arise. A colored individual, of great