s the inefficiency and criminality of the Society in
a striking light:

'AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY. LIBERIA.--This Society was
formed in the United States, in 1817.

Its Thirteenth Annual Report has just reached this country.

Its object, as expressed by itself, (see the Thirteenth Report,
page 41, app. 9, art. 2,) "Is to promote and execute a plan for
colonizing the free people of color, residing in 'the United
States' in Africa, or such other place as Congress shall deem
most expedient."

The facts of the case are these:

1. That the United States have about 2,000,000 enslaved blacks.
2. That they have about 500,000 free blacks.
3. That both these classes are rapidly increasing.
4. That both are exceedingly depressed and degraded.

The duty of the United States to them, is the same exactly as we
owe to our colored fellow-subjects in our slave colonies, viz.
to obey God, by letting them go free, by placing them beneath
wise and equitable laws, and by loving them all, and treating
them like brethren; that is to say, the unquestionable duty of
the people of the United States is to emancipate their 2,000,000
slaves, and to raise the 500,000 free colored people to that
estimation in their native country which is due to them.

But the American Colonization Society deliberately rejects both
of these first great duties, and confines itself to the
colonization in Africa of the free colored people. They say, in
page 5, of their Thirteenth Report, "To abolition she could not
look--and need not look." It "could do nothing in the slave
States for the cause of humanity;" and in page 8, "Emancipation,
with the liberty to remain on this side of the Atlantic, is but
an act of dreamy madness."

Now in thus deliberately letting the great crime of negro
slavery alone; and in thus substituting a little restricted act
of very dubious benevolence to a few, for the great and sacred
duty of right which they owe to all,--they hurt the great cause
of everlasting truth and love, in the following particulars:

1. By offering to the nation a hope, at which many of their best
men seem eagerly grasping, of getting rid of the colored people
abroad--they conduce more and more, as this hope prevails, to
keep out of mind the superior, unalterable, and immediate duty
of rightin