g them at home.

2. By removing whatever number it be, from their native country,
the number which remains must be diminished,--and the more the
number which remains is diminished, the more helpless will they
become--the less will be the hope of their ever recovering their
own liberty--and the more and longer will they be trampled upon.

3. The more the people of the United States (and this is equally
true of Great Britain) substitute a _half-way_ duty, difficult,
expensive, and partial as it must be, and criminal as it
unquestionably is--for the _whole_ duty which they owe their
negro fellow-subjects, of putting them, before the law, upon a
par with themselves--the less will they be likely to feel their
sin in continuing to wrong them; and the less they feel their
sin, the less likely will they be to repent of it, and to do
their duty.

4. The greater the number of slaves transported, the greater
will be the value of the labor of those who remain; the more
valuable their labor is, the greater will be the temptation to
over-labor them, and the more, of course, they will be
oppressed.

5. The American Colonization Society directly supports the false
and cruel idea that the native country of the colored people of
the United States, is not their native country, and that they
never can be happy until they either exile themselves, or are
exiled; and thus powerfully conduces to extinguish in them all
those delightful hopes, and to prevent all that glorious
exertion, which would make them a blessing to their country. In
this particular, the American Colonization Society takes up a
falsehood, as cruel to the colored people, as it is disgraceful
to themselves; dwells upon it, as if it were an irrefragable
truth; urges it, as such, upon others; and thus endeavors with
all its force, to make _that practically true_, which is one of
the greatest stains in the American character; which is one of
the greatest scourges that could possibly afflict the free
colored people; and which, in itself, is essentially and
unalterably false. For be the pertinacity of prejudice what it
may, in asserting that the blacks of America never can be
amalgamated in all respects, in equal brotherhood with the
whites, it will not the less remain an everlasting truth, that
the wickedness which produ