) to incur the censure of both sections of
the country.'

As a farther illustration of the complacency with which colonizationists
regard the laws prohibiting the instruction of the blacks, I extract the
following paragraph from the 'Proceedings of the New-York State
Colonization Society, on its second anniversary:'

'It is the business of the free--_their safety requires it_--to
keep the slaves in ignorance. Their education is utterly
prohibited. Educate them, and they break their fetters. Suppose
the slaves of the south to have the knowledge of freemen, they
would be free, or be exterminated by the whites. This renders it
necessary to prevent their instruction--to keep them from Sunday
Schools, and other means of gaining knowledge. But a few days
ago, a proposition was made in the legislature of Georgia, to
allow them so much instruction as to enable them to read the
bible; which was promptly rejected by a large majority. I do not
mention this for the purpose of _condemning the policy_ of the
slaveholding States, but to lament its _necessity_.'

Elias B. Caldwell, one of the founders, and the first Secretary of the
Parent Society, in a speech delivered at its formation, advanced the
following monstrous sentiments:

'The more you improve the condition of these people, the more
you cultivate their minds, the more _miserable_ you make them in
their present state. You give them a higher relish for those
privileges _which they can never attain_, and turn what you
intend for a blessing into a curse. No, if they must remain in
their present situation, _keep them in the lowest state of
ignorance and degradation_. The nearer you bring them to the
condition of _brutes_, the better chance do you give them of
possessing their apathy.'

So, then, the American Colonization Society advocates, and to a great
extent perpetuates the ignorance and degradation of the colored
population of the United States!

In a critical examination of the pages of the African Repository, and of
the reports and addresses of the Parent Society and its auxiliaries, I
cannot find in a single instance any impeachment of the conduct and
feelings of society toward the people of color, or any hint that the
prejudice which is so prevalent against them is unmanly and sinful, or
any evidence of contrition for past injustice, or any remonstrance or
entreaty with a view to a