suffering, and we in iniquity--and we have nothing to do now but
to speak _peace_, _peace_ to one another in our sins. But if any
of their masters, whether from benevolence, an awakened
conscience, or political or personal fear, should emancipate
any, let us send them to Liberia--that is, in fact, let us give
a sugar plum here and there to a few, while the many are living
and dying unredressed--and while we are thus countenancing the
atrocious iniquity beneath which they are perishing." In this
aspect I find the American Colonization Society declaring itself
a substitute for emancipation, and it is in this aspect that I
contend with it, and that I proclaim it, _as far as it has this
character_, no farther, a bane to the colored people, whether
enslaved or free, and a snare and a disgrace to its country.'

The second article of the Constitution of this Society is in the
following language:

'The object to which its attention is to be _exclusively_
directed, is to promote and execute a plan for colonizing (with
their consent) the free people of color residing in our country,
in Africa, or such other place as Congress shall deem most
expedient. And the Society shall act, to effect this object, in
co-operation with the General Government, and such of the States
as may adopt regulations upon the subject.'

The following citations abundantly sustain the charge, that the Society
has not swerved from its original design, and does not oppose the system
of slavery:

'Whilst he was up, he would detain the Society for a few
moments. It was proper again and again to repeat, that it was
far from the intention of the Society to affect, _in any
manner_, the tenure by which a certain species of property is
held. He was himself a slaveholder; _and he considered that kind
of property as inviolable as any other in the country_. He would
resist as soon, and with as much firmness, encroachments upon it
as he would encroachments upon any other property which he held.
Nor was he disposed even to go as far as the gentleman who had
just spoken, (Mr Mercer) in saying that he would emancipate his
slaves, if the means were provided of sending them from the
country.'--[Speech of Henry Clay.--First Annual Report.]

'It was proper and necessary distinctly to state, that he
understood it constituted no part o