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72 (1) Samuel Hopkins speaks boldly and publicly against slavery—the A. C. S. excuses it. (2) He mentions the wrong which the colored people were suffering, throwing the guilt where it rested upon the whites!—the A. C. S. attaches the guilt to the suffering colored people, and excuses the whites who are the actual criminals. (3) S. H. is moved by the wishes of the sufferers themselves—the A. C. S. is acting in direct and open violation of the almost universal wishes of the sufferers. (4) Most of the colored people spoken of by S. H. were Africans themselves, or, had still relations and acquaintances in Africa, and retained the languages of that country!—the colored people, about whom the A. C. S. busy themselves, are almost universally Americans, and know nothing of the languages of Africa. (5) S. H. speaks of his proteges, in the most respectful and affectionate terms—the A. C. S. slander most grossly and cruelly the pretended objects of their benevolence. (6) S. H. speaks of his poor, as already qualified by principles and habits long established, and by attainments already made, to be a blessing to Africa—the A. C. S. speaks of theirs, as about to be transmuted by passing the Atlantic, from semi-devils to semi-angels, to more than men! in the United States, unfit to be allowed to remain in their native country! but in Africa, above all human influences, uncorrupt and incorruptible;. such men and women as the world has never seen; as the United States, with all its real glory, and with all its cruel boasts, has not! (7) Granville Sharp in his reply, bids the strangers welcome, but allures them by no fairy tales of Sierra Leone—the A. C. S. made Liberia as much and as long as it could, a little paradise. (8) Both G. S. and S. H. were evidently the ministers and servants in love for Christ's sake, of the people of their care—the A. C. S. takes sides with their slanderers and oppressors, and spurns them with all the benevolence of aristocratic pride from their native country. Can darkness and light—can right and wrong be more opposite. If any one ask for my authorities, I refer them to the Annual Reports and to the African Repositories of the American Colonization Society, and to Judge Jay's admirable book;