talents, merits, and
wealth, may emerge from the crowd. Cases of this kind are to the
last degree rare. The colored people are subject to legal
disabilities, more or less galling and severe, in almost every
state of the Union. Who has not deeply regretted their late
harsh expulsion from the State of Ohio, and their being forced
to abandon the country of their birth, which had profited by
their labors, and to take refuge in a foreign land? Severe
regulations have been recently passed in Louisiana, to prevent
the introduction of free people of color into the State.
Whenever they appear, they are to be banished in sixty days. The
strong opposition to a negro college in New-Haven, speaks in a
language not to be mistaken, the jealousy with which they are
regarded. And there is no reason to expect, that the lapse of
centuries will make any change in this respect. THEY WILL ALWAYS
UNHAPPILY BE REGARDED AS AN INFERIOR RACE.'--[Mathew Carey's
'Reflections.']

'Instances of emancipation have not essentially benefitted the
African, and _probably never will_, while he remains among us.
In this country, public opinion does, _and will_, consign him to
an inferiority, _above which he can never rise_. Emancipation
can NEVER make the African, while he remains in this country, a
real free man. Degradation MUST and WILL press him to the earth;
no cheering, stimulating influence will he here feel, _in any of
the walks of life_.'--[Circular of the Massachusetts
Colonization Society for 1832.]

'With us color is the bar. Nature has raised up barriers between
the races, _which no man with a proper sense of the dignity of
his species desires to see surmounted_.' * * 'What effects does
emancipation produce without removal? A discontented and useless
population; having no sympathies with the rest of the community,
_doomed by immoveable barriers to eternal degradation_. I know
that there are among us, those of warm and generous hearts, who
believe that we may retain the black man here, and raise him up
to the full and perfect stature of human nature. That degree of
improvement can never take place except the races be
amalgamated; and amalgamation is a day-dream. It may seem
strong, but it is true that "a skin not colored like our own"
will separate them from us, _as long as our feelings co