know of no difference
between them in this respect--teaching them to read the Bible
will make christians of _very_ few of them. [What a plea!] ...
If christian masters were to teach their servants to read, we
apprehend that they would not feel the obligation as they ought
to feel it, of giving them oral instruction, and often
impressing divine truth on their minds. [!!] ... If the free
colored people were generally taught to read, _it might be an
inducement to them to remain in this country_. WE WOULD OFFER
THEM NO SUCH INDUCEMENT. [!!] ... A knowledge of letters and of
all the arts and sciences, cannot counteract the influences
under which the character of the negro _must_ be formed in this
country.... It appears to us that a greater benefit may be
conferred on the free colored people, by planting good schools
for them in Africa, and encouraging them to remove there, than
by giving them the knowledge of letters to make them contented
in their present condition.'--[Telegraph of Feb. 19, 1831.]

Jesuitism was never more subtle--Papal domination never more exclusive.
The gospel of peace and mercy preached by him who holds that ignorance
is the mother of devotion! who would sequestrate the bible from the eyes
of his fellow men! who contends that knowledge is the enemy of religion!
who denies the efficacy of education in elevating a degraded population!
who would make men brutes in order to make them better christians! who
desires to make the clergy infallible guides to heaven! Now what folly
and impiety is all this! Besides, is it not mockery to preach
repentance, and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, to the benighted blacks,
and at the same time deny them the right and ability to 'search the
scriptures' for themselves?

The proposition which was made last year to erect a College for the
education of colored youth in New-Haven, it is well known, created an
extraordinary and most disgraceful tumult in that place, (the hot-bed of
African colonization,) and was generally scouted by the friends of the
Society in other places. The American Spectator at Washington, (next to
the African Repository, the mouth-piece of the Society,) used the
following language, in relation to the violent proceedings of the
citizens of New-Haven: 'We not only _approve the course_, which they
have pursued, but we _admire the moral courage_, which induced them,
_for the love of right_, (!