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Rh licentiousness, deification of man and defiance of God. And now, amidst all the smoke and carnage of a triumphant abolitionism, what good will accrue to the poor negro, either in America or in Africa. For his condition of present degradation, they promise him only a fate growing for ever darker, and deeper, and more appalling. Such is abolitionism displayed, according to my understanding of its principle, is spirit, and its tendency

And now for a moment refresh yourselves by contrasting with this anti-slavery madness, the calm, dignified, wise, efficient and beneficent proceedings, achievements and tendencies of African colonization. Its simple, fundamental aim, is the transfer of free coloured people to the coast of Africa, and to that aim it consistently and undeviatingly adheres. But yet, as was expected and desired, its influence is great and growing in many directions; and its actual effects thus far have been happy beyond all reasonable expectation. It has been the direct cause of delivering from bondage many thousands of slaves, (about one half of the whole number sent to Liberia, have been emancipated slaves); it has provided what Mr. Jefferson and other statesmen anxiously sought, a kind, safe and feasible mode of disposing of that large class of slaves, who are held in bondage only for the want of some such provision; it is causing thousands of masters to begin a quiet and gradual preparation for ultimately liberating their slaves, and thus helping to raise the intellectual and moral