y_. Why then, in the name of
God, should we hesitate to encourage their departure? The
existence of this race among us; a race that can neither share
our blessings nor incorporate in our Society, is already felt to
be a curse.'--[African Repository, vol. v. pp. 51, 53, 179, 234,
238, 276, 278.]

'Is our posterity doomed to endure for ever not only all the
ills flowing from the state of slavery, but all which arise from
incongruous elements of population, separated from each other by
_invincible prejudices_, and by natural causes?' * * 'Here
_invincible prejudices_ exclude them from the enjoyment of the
society of the whites, and deny them all the advantages of
freemen. The bar, the pulpit, and our legislative halls are shut
to them by the irresistible force of public sentiment. No
talents however great, no piety however pure and devoted, no
patriotism however ardent, can secure their admission. They
constantly hear the accents, and behold the triumphs, of a
liberty _which here they can never enjoy_.' * * 'It is against
this increase of colored persons, who take but a nominal freedom
here, and _cannot rise_ from their degraded condition, that this
Society attempts to provide.' * * 'They may be emancipated; but
emancipation _cannot elevate their condition_ or augment their
capacity for self-preservation.--Want and suffering will
gradually diminish their numbers, and they will disappear, as
the inferior has always disappeared, before the superior race.'
* * 'Our great and good men purposed it primarily as a system of
relief for two millions of fellow men in our own county--a
population dangerous to ourselves and _necessarily degraded
here_.' * * 'The free blacks, by the moral necessity of their
civil disabilities, are and _must for ever be a
nuisance_--equally, and more to the owner of slaves, than to
other members of the community.'--[African Repository, vol. vi.
pp. 12, 17, 82, 168, 295, 368.]

'Incorporated into our country as freemen, yet separated from it
by odious and degrading distinctions, they feel themselves
condemned to a hopeless and debasing inferiority. They know that
their very complexion will _for ever_ exclude them from the
rank, the privileges, the honors, of freemen. No matter how
great their industry, or how abundant their wealth--no matter
w