ess._ The two operations would aid
reciprocally, and sustain each other, and both be in the highest
degree beneficial. It was on the ground of interest, therefore,
the most indisputable _pecuniary interest_, that he addressed
himself to the people and Legislatures of the slaveholding
States.'--[Speech of Mr Archer.--Fifteenth Annual Report.]

'Every motive which operates on the minds of slaveholders,
tending to make the colonization of the free blacks an object of
_interest_ to them, should operate in an equal degree to secure
the hearty co-operation of the government of every slaveholding
State.'--[African Repository, vol. vii. p. 176.]

'None are obliged to follow our example; AND THOSE WHO DO NOT,
WILL FIND THE VALUE OF THEIR NEGROES INCREASED BY THE DEPARTURE
OF OURS.'--[An advocate of colonization in the Western (Ky.)
Luminary.]

'So far from its having a dangerous tendency, when properly
considered, it will be viewed as AN ADDITIONAL GUARD TO OUR
PECULIAR SPECIES OF PROPERTY.'--[An advocate of the Society in
the New-Orleans Argus.]

'The slaveholder, who is in danger of having his slaves
contaminated by their free friends of color, will not only be
relieved from this danger, but THE VALUE OF HIS SLAVE WILL BE
ENHANCED.'--[A new and interesting View of Slavery. By
Humanitas, a colonization advocate. Baltimore, 1820.]

It is perfectly obvious, that whatever tends to weaken and depress the
present system, must render the holding of slaves less desirable, and
the prospect of emancipation more auspicious. Cherishing this
conviction, thousands of individuals in this country, and tens of
thousands in Great Britain, are led by conscientious motives to abstain
from the use of productions raised by slave labor, and to prefer those
only which are the fruits of the toil of freemen. They believe in the
soundness of the axiom, that 'the receiver is as bad as the thief;' and
knowing that the slaves are held in bondage not on the ground of
benevolence, or because their liberation would endanger the public
safety, but _because they are profitable to their owners_, they also
believe that the consumers of slave goods contribute to a fund for
supporting slavery with all its abominations; that they are the Alpha
and the Omega of the business; that the slave-trader, the slave-owner,
and the slave-driver, are virtually the agents of