he African slave trade, notwithstanding
all the efforts, past and present, for its suppression, still
exists and is conducted _with aggravated cruelty_, by the
resources of one continent, to the dishonor of another, and to
an extent little short of the desolation of a third,'
&c.--[Tenth Annual Report.]

'It is painful to state, that the Managers have reason to
believe that the slave trade is still prosecuted, to a great
extent, and with circumstances of undiminished atrocity. The
fact, that much was done by Mr Ashmun to banish it from the
territory, under the colonial jurisdiction, is unquestionable;
but, _it now exists, even on this territory_; and a little to
the north and south of Liberia, it is seen in its true
characters--of fraud, rapine, and blood! In the opinion of the
late Agent, the present efforts to suppress this trade must
prove abortive.'--[Thirteenth Annual Report.]

'Some appalling facts in regard to the slave trade have come to
the knowledge of the Board of Managers during the last year.
_With undiminished atrocity and activity_ is this odious traffic
now carried on _all along the African coast_. Slave factories
are established _in the immediate vicinity of the Colony_, and
at the Gallinas (between Liberia and Sierra Leone) not less than
nine hundred slaves were shipped during the last summer, in the
space of three weeks.'--[Fourteenth Annual Report, 1831.]

'In defiance of all laws enacted, it is estimated that no less
than _fifty thousand_ Africans were, during the last year,
(1831,) carried into foreign slavery. During the months of
February and March of the same year, two thousand were landed
on the island of Cuba.'--[Circular published by the
Massachusetts Colonization Society for 1832.]

Here, then, is the acknowledgment of the Society, that it has
accomplished _nothing_ toward the suppression of the slave trade in
fifteen years! Nor has the settlement at Sierra Leone effected aught in
thirty years! Nor have the untiring labors of Wilberforce and Clarkson,
for a longer period, produced any visible effect! The accursed traffic
still continues to increase--and why? Simply _because the market for
slaves is not destroyed_. Break up this market, and you annihilate the
slave trade. Keep it open, and you may line the shores of Africa and
America with naval ships and armed troops