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42 him to go into, but for this party, the fetters of the slave would have been flying in fragments in all directions. The South, if let alone, would spew out slavery in less than a generation. No one but a Southerner knows, or can know, how general is the antipathy of the Southern people to the institution. They know well that they are the chief sufferers in the matter, and they would gladly deliver themselves. But it is not human nature, certainly not American nature, to be lashed into anything. You may want to bestow a charity on the suffering, but your feelings would be very much changed, did a man undertake to whip you into the measure. Hence this meddlesome party may have been raised up like Pharaoh, just to keep these people in bondage for their ultimate good. Their country is not ready for them all, and they are not all ready for freedom. Meanwhile, colonization is shedding upon them an influence which must gradually elevate their condition whilst they remain in bondage, and thus prepare them for the day of deliverance. Its influence is exerted silently, and almost imperceptibly, and in the most persuasive and salutary manner; and gradually the colonization principles will triumph over the abolition, by making more friends, and by ultimately converting, purifying, and absorbing the abolition party itself.

Messrs. Greely and Birney are only the first fruits of the triumphs of colonization in winning its enemies. They will, and must resort to African emigration as the only hope for negro elevation.