of our early and decided
opposition to the measure. No doubt Mr. Garrison also
remembers it.

Three meetings were held by us in 1817. The two first you
will find in the "Thoughts on Colonization," part 2d, page 9.
Of the protest and remonstrance adopted at the third meeting,
I send you an exact copy. It is in answer to an address to
the citizens of New York and Philadelphia, calling upon them
to aid a number of persons of color, whom they said were
anxious to join the projected colony in Africa. Those persons
were mostly from the south, and it was to disabuse the public
mind on this subject, that our meeting was held.

I remain, with great respect,
Yours, JAMES FORTEN.

He (Mr. T.) could pledge himself that such were still the feelings
of the free colored people of America. Wherever they possessed a
glimmering of light upon the subject, they utterly abhorred the
society, and would as soon _consent_ to be cut to pieces, as sent to
any of the colonies prepared for their reception. Was it not then too
bad that Christians should be called upon to support a society so
utterly at variance with the wishes and feelings of the parties most
nearly concerned? As a few moments yet remained, he would occupy it
in quoting the opinions of two gentlemen, ministers of religion, and
standing high in their own country, who had furnished lamentable
evidence of the extent to which prejudice might possess otherwise
strong and enlarged minds. The first quotation was from a report of
a committee at the Theological Seminary at Andover, Massachusetts,
presented to the Colonization Society of that institution in 1823.
It was from the pen of the Rev. Leonard Bacon, now pastor of a
Congregational church at New Haven, Connecticut.

"The Soodra is not farther separated from the Brahmin, in
regard to all his privileges, civil, intellectual, and moral,
than the negro is from the white man, by the prejudices which
result from the difference made between them by the God of
nature. A barrier more difficult to be surmounted than the
institution of the Caste, cuts off, and while the present
state of society continues, must always cut off, the negro
from all that is valuable in citizenship."

The other was his opponent on that platform; who, in a letter to the
New York Evangelist, had said, that emancipation, to