ntinue a
part of our nature_.'--[Speeches delivered at the formation of
the Young Men's Auxiliary Colonization Society in New-York
city.]

'These [subsistence, political and social considerations] they
can _never_ enjoy here.' * * 'You may manumit the slave, but you
cannot make him a white man. He still remains a negro or a
mulatto. The mark and the recollection of his origin and former
state still adhere to him; the feelings produced by that
condition, in his own mind and in the minds of the whites, still
exist; he is associated by his color, and by these recollections
and feelings, with the class of slaves; and a barrier is thus
raised between him and the whites, that is between him and the
free class, which he can never hope to transcend.' * * 'A vast
majority of the free blacks, as we have seen, are and _must be_,
an idle, worthless and thievish race.'--[First Annual Report.]

'Here they are condemned to a state of _hopeless_ inferiority,
and consequent degradation. As they _cannot_ emerge from this
state, they lose, by degrees, the hope, at last the desire of
emerging.'--[Second Annual Report.]

'The existence in any community of a people forming a distinct
and degraded caste, _who are forever excluded by the fiat of
society and the laws of the land_, from all hopes of equality in
social intercourse and political privileges, must, from the
nature of things, be fraught with unmixed evil. Did this
committee believe it possible, by any acts of legislation, to
remove this blotch upon the body politic, by so elevating the
social and moral condition of the blacks in Ohio, that they
would be received into society on terms of equality, and would
by common consent be admitted to a participation of political
privileges--WERE SUCH A THING POSSIBLE, even after a lapse of
time and by pecuniary sacrifice, most gladly would they
recommend such measures as would subserve the cause of humanity,
by producing such a result. For the purposes of legislation, it
is sufficient to know, that the blacks in Ohio _must always
exist as a separate and degraded race_, that when the leopard
shall change his spots and the Ethiopian his skin, then, BUT NOT
TILL THEN, may we expect that the descendants of Africans will
be admitted into society, on terms of social and political
equalit