one prospect before
them.'--[African Repository, vol. 1, pp. 34, 144, 162, 176, 226,
317.]

'Shut out from the privileges of citizens, separated from us by
the _insurmountable_ barrier of color, they can _never_
amalgamate with us, but must remain _for ever_ a distinct and
inferior race, repugnant to our republican feelings, and
dangerous to our republican institutions.' * * * 'It is not that
there are some, but that there are so many among us of a
different physical, if not moral, constitution, who _never_ can
amalgamate with the great body of our population.'--[African
Repository, vol. ii. pp. 188, 189, 338.]

'In consequence of his own inveterate habits, and the no less
inveterate prejudices of the whites, it is a sadly demonstrated
truth, that the negro _cannot, in this country_, become an
enlightened and useful citizen. Driven to the lowest stratum of
society, and enthralled there for melancholy ages, his mind
becomes proportionably grovelling, and to gratify his animal
desires is his most exalted aspiration.' * * 'The negro, _while
in this country_, will be treated as an inferior being.' * *
'Our slavery is such, as that no device of our philanthropy for
elevating the wretched subjects of its debasement to the
ordinary privileges of men, can descry one cheering glimpse of
hope that our object can _ever_ be accomplished. The very
commencing act of freedom to the slave, is to place him in a
condition still worse, if possible, both for his moral habits,
his outward provision, and for the community that embosoms him,
than even that, deplorable as it was, from which he has been
removed. He is now a freeman; but his complexion, his features,
every peculiarity of his person, pronounce to him another
doom,--that every wish he may conceive, every effort he can
make, shall be _little better than vain_. Even to every talent
and virtuous impulse which he may feel working in his bosom,
obstacles stand in impracticable array; not from a defect of
essential title to success, but from _a positive external law,
unreasoning and irreversible_.' * * 'The elevation of a degraded
class of beings to the privileges of freemen, which, though
free, they can _never_ enjoy, and to the prospects of a happy
immortality.' * * 'They again most solemnly repeat to the free
colored peop