facts, both in regard to New
England and Ohio, one of two conclusions may be logically deduced:
Either the colored people find so little sympathy from the
abolitionists, that they will not live among them; or else their
presence, in any community, in large numbers, tends to cure the whites
of all tendencies toward practical abolitionism!

FOOTNOTES:

[71] See Table IV, Appendix.

[72] See Table V, Appendix.

CHAPTER XVI.

Disappointment of English and American Abolitionists--Their failure
attributed to the inherent evils of Slavery--Their want of
discrimination--The differences in the system in the British Colonies
and in the United States--Colored people of United States vastly in
advance of all others--Success of the Gospel among the Slaves--_Democratic
Review_ on African civilization--Vexation of Abolitionists at their
failure--Their apology not to be accepted--Liberia attests its
falsity--The barrier to the colored man's elevation removable only by
Colonization--Colored men begin to see it--Chambers, of Edinburgh--His
testimony on the crushing effects of New England's treatment of colored
people--Charges Abolitionists with insincerity--Approves
Colonization--Abolition violence rebuked by an English clergyman.

The condition of the free colored people can now be understood. The
results, in their case, are vastly different from what was anticipated,
when British philanthropists succeeded in West India emancipation. They
are very different, also, from what was expected by American
abolitionists: so different, indeed, that their disappointment is fully
manifested, in the extracts made from their published documents. As an
apology for the failure, it seems to be their aim to create the belief,
that the dreadful moral depravation, existing in the West Indies, is
wholly owing to the demoralizing tendencies of slavery. They speak of
this effect as resulting from laws inherent in the system, which have no
exceptions, and must be equally as active in the United States as in the
British colonies. But in their zeal to cast odium on slavery, they prove
too much--for, if this be true, it follows, that the slave population of
the United States must be equally debased with that of Jamaica, and as
much disqualified to discharge the duties of freemen, as both have been
subjected to the operations of the same system. This is not all. The
logic of the argument would extend even to our free colored people, and
include th