n Society looks abroad over its own
country, and it finds a mass of its brethren, whom God has been
pleased to clothe with a darker skin. It finds one portion of
these free! another enslaved! It finds a cruel prejudice, as
dark and false as sin can make it, reigning with a most
tyrannous sway against both. It finds this prejudice respecting
the _free_, declaring without a blush, "We are too wicked ever
to love them as God commands us to do--we are so resolute in our
wickedness as not even to desire to do so--and we are so proud
in our iniquity that we will hate and revile whoever disturbs us
in it--We want, like the devils of old, to be let alone in our
sin--We are unalterably determined, and neither God nor man
shall move us from this resolution, that our free colored fellow
subjects never shall be happy in their native land." The
American Colonization Society, I say, finds this most base and
cruel prejudice, _and lets it alone_; nay more, it directly and
powerfully supports it.

'The American Colonization Society finds 2,000,000 of its fellow
subjects most iniquitously enslaved--and it finds a resolution
as proud and wicked as the very spirit of the pit can make it
against _obeying_ God and _letting them_ go free in their native
land. _It lets this perfectly infernal resolution alone_, nay
more, it powerfully supports it; for it in fact says, as a fond
and feeble father might say to some overgrown baby before whose
obstinate wickedness he quailed, "Never mind, my dear, I don't
want to prevent your beating and abusing your brothers and
sisters--let that be--but here is a box of sugar plums--do pray
give them one or two now and then." The American Colonization
Society says practically to the slaveholders and the slave party
in the United States, "We don't want to prevent your plundering
2,000,000 of our fellow subjects of their liberty and of the
fruits of their toil; although we know that by every principle
of law which does not utterly disgrace us by assimilating us to
pirates, that they have as good and as true a right to the equal
protection of the law as we have; and although we ourselves
stand prepared to die, rather than submit even to a fragment of
the intolerable load of oppression to which we are subjecting
them--yet never mind--let that be--they have grown old in