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Rh Wilberforce in the London Anti Slavery Society's office, was refused a place there by the coadjutors and successors of Granville Sharp. The same fountain does not send forth waters both bitter and sweet—"neither does the fig bear olives—nor the vine, figs." James iii. 11, 12. Granville Sharp, the philanthropist, (not the blanco-idolater) and Bushrod Washington, or Henry Clay, are in this respect, at the uttermost antipodes. Where, as above mentioned, men of a different and superior stamp, have become supporters of the Colonization Society, they have been out of place. Some of them have repented and brought forth fruits mete for repentance. Over the rest, impartial love, wonders and mourns, looking with confidence, to their rescue at no distant day, from their present thraldom.

In fine, whether we consider the well known and ruling principles of Granville Sharp's mind—or advert to his correspondence and memoranda—whether we compare Sierra Leone and Liberia, or contrast their fundamental principles—whether we contemplate the national state of mind in both cases, or the general character of the most congenial advocates of either, we are more and more struck, with the utter discordancy between the two, and are satisfied that had our beloved brother lived, his name would have graced William Wilberforce's protest; that crowning act of his life, against the absurd and cruel pursuit of colonizationism in the United States, whether concentrated in the form of the Colonization Society, or scattered in its pristine and unorganized form, over the land.

A distinguishing feature of the colonization mania, may here be noticed in conclusion. Let a man speak the truth, of the insane and cruel prejudice against color in the United States, declaring however, that it is vincible, and explaining the manly, peaceable and republican process, by which it is actually undergoing a glorious change—and, if an American, he is a slanderer of his country, or a traitor, or something, or anything else, which the color-phobia fancies:—if an Englishman, he "has been imported, for the purpose of vilifying colonization,"