nd cummin,
and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment,
mercy and faith."

'Colonizationists generally agree in apologising for the crime
of slavery. They get behind the contemptible subterfuge, that it
was entailed upon the planters. As if the continuance of the
horrid system were not criminal! as if the robberies of another
generation justify the robberies of the present! as if the
slaves had not an inalienable right to freedom! as if slavery
were not an individual as well as a national crime! as if the
tearing asunder families, limb from limb,--branding the flesh
with red hot irons,--mangling the body with whips and
knives,--feeding it on husks and clothing it with
rags,--crushing the intellect and destroying the soul,--as if
such inconceivable cruelty were not chargeable to those who
inflict it!

'As to the effect of colonization upon slavery, it is rather
favorable than injurious to the system. Now and then, indeed,
there is a great flourish of trumpets, and glowing accounts of
the willingness of planters to emancipate their slaves on
condition of transportation to Africa. Now and then a slave is
actually manumitted and removed, and the incident is dwelt upon
for months. Why, my friends, hundreds of worn-out slaves are
annually turned off to die, like old horses. No doubt their
masters will thank the Colonization Society, or any one else, to
send them out of the country; especially as they will gain much
glorification in the newspapers, for their _disinterested_
sacrifices. Let no man be deceived by these manoeuvres.

'My time is consumed--and yet I have scarcely entered upon the
threshold of my argument. Now, what a spectacle is presented to
the world!--the American people, boasting of their free and
equal rights--of their abhorrence of aristocratical
distinctions--of their republican equality; proclaiming on every
wind, "that all men are born _equal_, and endowed with certain
inalienable _rights_," and that this land is an asylum for the
persecuted of all nations; and yet as loudly proclaiming that
they are determined to deprive millions of their own countrymen
of every political and social right, and to send them to a
barbarous continent, because the Creator has given them a sable
complexion. Where exists a more rigorous despotism? What