bject and sorrowful, by the "streams which
witness their captivity." Their freedom is _licentiousness_, and
to many RESTRAINT WOULD PROVE A BLESSING. To this remark there
are exceptions; exceptions proving that to change their state
would be to elevate their character; that virtue and enterprise
are absent, only, because absent are the causes which create the
one, and the motives which produce the other.'--[African
Repository, vol. i. p. 68.]

'Free blacks are a greater nuisance than even slaves
themselves.' * * * 'They knew that where slavery had been
abolished it had operated to the advantage of the masters, not
of the slaves: they saw this fact most strikingly illustrated in
the case of the free negroes of Boston. If, on the anniversary
celebrated by the free people of color, of the day on which
slavery was abolished, they looked abroad, what did they see?
Not freemen, in the enjoyment of every attribute of freedom,
with the stamp of liberty upon their brows! No, Sir; they saw a
ragged set, crying out liberty! for whom liberty had nothing to
bestow, and whose enjoyment of it was but in name. He spoke of
the great body of the blacks; there were some few honorable
exceptions, he knew, which only proved what might be done for
all.'--[African Repository, vol. ii. p. 328.]

'Although there are individual exceptions distinguished by high
moral and intellectual worth, yet the free blacks in our country
are, as a body, more vicious and degraded than any other which
our population embraces.' * * * 'If, then, they are a useless
and dangerous species of population, we would ask, is it
generous in our southern friends to burthen us with them?
Knowing themselves the evils of slavery, can they wish to impose
upon us an evil scarcely less tolerable? We think it a mistaken
philanthropy, which would liberate the slave, unfitted by
education and habit for freedom, and cast him upon a merciless
and despising world, where his only fortune must be poverty, his
only distinction degradation, and his only comfort
insensibility.' * * * 'I will look no farther when I seek for
the _most degraded, the most abandoned race on the earth_, but
rest my eyes on this people. What but sorrow can we feel at the
_misguided piety_ which has set free so many of them by
death-bed devise or sudden conv