es, which are beneath them.'--[African Repository, vol.
vii. pp. 100, 195, 196, 231.]

'And can we not find some spot on this large globe which will
receive them kindly, and where they may escape those prejudices
which, in this country, must _ever_ keep them _inferior_ and
_degraded_ members of society?'--[Third Annual Report.]

'A population which, even if it were not literally enslaved,
_must for ever remain_ in a state of degradation no better than
bondage.' * * 'Here the thing is impossible; a slave cannot be
really emancipated. You may call him free, you may enact a
statute book of laws to make him free, but you cannot bleach him
into the enjoyment of freedom.' * * 'The Soodra is not farther
separated from the Brahmin in regard to all his privileges,
civil, intellectual, and moral, than the negro is from the white
man by the prejudices which result from the difference made
between them by the God of nature. A barrier more difficult to
be surmounted than the institution of the caste, cuts off, and
while the present state of society continues _must always_ cut
off, the negro from all that is valuable in
citizenship.'--[Seventh Annual Report.]

'Let the arm of our government be stretched out for the defence
of our African colony, and this objection will no longer exist.
There, _and there alone_, the colored man can enjoy the motives
for honorable exertion.'--[Ninth Annual Report.]

'In the distinctive and indelible marks of their color, and the
prejudices of the people, an _insuperable_ obstacle has been
placed to the execution of any plan for elevating their
character, and placing them on a footing with their brethren of
the same common family.'--[Tenth Annual Report.]

'Far from shuddering at the thought of leaving the comfortable
fireside among us, for a distant and unknown shore yet covered
by the wilderness, they have preferred real liberty there, to a
mockery of freedom here, and have turned their eyes to Africa,
as the only resting place and refuge of the colored man, in the
deluge of oppression that surrounds him.'--[Eleventh Annual
Report.]

'The race in question were known, as a class, to be destitute,
depraved--the victims of all forms of social misery. The
peculiarity of their fate was, that this was not their condition
by accident o