veholding States_,
who cannot gravely be charged with a design so perilous to
themselves. To the uncandid disputant, I say, let him put his
finger on one single sentiment, declaration or act of the
Society, or of any person, with its sanction, which shows such
to be their object: there is in fact no pretext for the charge.'
* * * 'Let me repeat, the _friends_ of the Colonization Society,
three-fourths of them are SLAVEHOLDERS; the legislatures of
Maryland, Georgia, Kentucky and Tennessee, all slaveholding
States, have approved it; _every member_ of this auxiliary
Society is, _either in himself, or his nearest relatives,
interested in holding slaves_.' * * * 'Once more; this Society
is no way connected with certain Abolition Societies in the
country. To these the Colonization Society would say, "Your
object is unattainable, your zeal dangerous, and nothing can
give it the right direction or the right temperature, but your
surrendering your plan to ours: be convinced, that if the blacks
are ever to be removed from us, it will be by the free will of
the owners, and by means of the opportunity which our _innocent_
plan of an asylum for such as may be sent will afford."'--['The
Col. Society Vindicated.'--Idem, pp. 197, 200, 202, 203.]

'They can impress upon the southern slaveholder, by the strength
of facts, and by the recorded declarations of honest men, that
the objects of the Colonization Society are altogether pure and
praiseworthy, and _that it has no intention to open the door to
universal liberty_, but only to cut out a channel, where the
merciful providence of God may cause those dark waters to flow
off.'--[Idem, vol. iv. p. 145.]

'About twelve years ago, some of the wisest men of the nation,
(_mostly slaveholders_,) formed, in the city of Washington, the
present American Colonization Society. Among them were men high
in office, who had spent many years in studying the interests of
their country, and who could not, therefore, be suspected of
short-sighted enthusiasm, or any secret design of disturbing the
rights or the safety of our southern citizens.' * * * 'You will
observe, first, that _there is to be no intermeddling with
property in slaves_. THE RIGHTS OF MASTERS ARE TO REMAIN SACRED
IN THE EYES OF THE SOCIETY. The tendency of the scheme, and one
of its