uence over
the slaves is pernicious and alarming.' * * * 'What is the true
nature of the evil of the existence of a portion of the African
race in our population? It is not that there are some, but that
there are so many among us of a different caste, of a different
physical, if not moral, constitution, who never can amalgamate
with the great body of our population. In every country, persons
are to be found varying in their color, origin and character,
from the native mass. But this anomaly creates no inquietude or
apprehension, because the exotics, from the smallness of their
number, are known to be utterly incapable of disturbing the
general tranquillity. Here, on the contrary, the African part of
our population bears so large a proportion to the residue of
European origin, as to create the most lively apprehension,
especially in some quarters of the Union. Any project,
therefore, by which, in a material degree, the dangerous element
in the general mass, can be diminished or rendered stationary,
deserves deliberate consideration.'--[African Repository, vol.
ii. pp. 27, 338.]

'Made up, for the most part, either of slaves or of their
immediate descendants; elevated above the class from which it
has sprung, only by its exemption from domestic restraint; and
effectually debarred by the law, from every prospect of equality
with the actual freemen of the country; it is a source of
perpetual uneasiness to the master, and of envy and corruption
to the slave.' * * 'To remove these persons from among us, will
increase the _usefulness_, and improve the moral character of
those who remain in servitude, and _with whose labors the
country is unable to dispense_. That instances are to be found
of colored free persons, upright and industrious, is not to be
denied. But the greater portion, as is well known, are a source
of malignant depravity to the slaves on the one hand, and of
corrupt habits to many of our white population on the other. The
arts of subsistence with many of them, are incompatible with the
security of property.' * * * 'I am a Virginian--I dread for her
the corroding evil of this numerous caste, and I tremble for the
danger of a disaffection spreading through their seductions,
among our servants.' * * * 'Are they vipers, who are sucking our
blood? we will hurl the