property, SACRED. Let not then this slander be
repeated.'--[Speech of James S. Green, Esq. on the same
occasion.]

'Nothing has contributed more to retard the operations of the
Colonization Society than the mistaken notion that it interferes
directly with slavery. This objection is rapidly vanishing away,
and many of the slaveholding States are becoming efficient
supporters of the national society. In the Senate of Louisiana
during its last session, resolutions were adopted expressive of
the opinion that the object of this Society was deserving the
patronage of the general government. An enlightened community
now see, that this Society infringes upon no man's rights, that
its object is noble and benevolent--to remedy an evil which is
felt and acknowledged at the north and south--to give the free
people of color the privileges of freemen.'--[From a Tract
issued by the Massachusetts Colonization Society in 1831, for
gratuitous distribution.]

'This institution proposes to do good by a single specific
course of measures. Its direct and specific purpose _is not the
abolition of slavery_, or the relief of pauperism, or the
extension of commerce and civilization, or the enlargement of
science, or the conversion of the heathen. The single object
which its constitution prescribes, and to which all its efforts
are necessarily directed, is, African colonization from America.
It proposes only to afford facilities for the voluntary
emigration of free people of color from this country to the
country of their fathers.'--[Review on African
Colonization.--Christian Spectator for September, 1830.]

'It interferes in nowise with the right of property, and hopes
and labors for the gradual abolition of slavery, by the
voluntary and gradual manumission of slaves, when the free
persons of color shall have first been transferred to their
aboriginal climate and soil.'--[G. W. P. Custis, Esq.--African
Repository, vol. i. p. 39.]

'Does this Society wish to meddle with our slaves as our
rightful property? I answer _no_, I think not.'--[African
Repository, vol. ii. p. 13.]

'They have been denounced by some as fanatical and visionary
innovators, pursuing without regard to means or consequences, an
object destructive of the rights of property, and dangerous to
the public