"Happily, there is no part of the civilized world, in which it is necessary to discuss the justice or injustice of the principle of negro slavery; at the present day, every sane man agrees that it is a monstrosity, and it would be altogether inaccurate, to suppose that there are in the United States, more than elsewhere, individuals sufficiently senseless to seek to defend it, either by their writings or conversation. For myself, who have traversed the twenty-four states of the Union, and in the course of a year have had more than one opportunity of hearing long and keen discussions upon this subject, I declare that I never have found but a single person, who seriously defended this principle. This was a young man, whose head, sufficiently imperfect in its organization, was filled with confused and ridiculous notions relative to Roman History; and appeared to be completely ignorant of the history of his own country. It would be waste of time, to repeat here, his crude and ignorant tirade." These are the sentiments of MEN OF EMINENT TALENTS, CITIZENS OF THE SOUTH, AND SLAVE-HOLDERS! Lastly, the Southern Reporter says,-- "The _conscientious_ slave-holder deserves a larger share of the sympathy of those who have sympathy to spare, than any other class of men, not excepting the slave himself." "One _great evil_ of the system is its tendency to produce disorder and poverty in a country." "The slave-trade may be regarded as a _conspiracy_ of all Europe and the commercial part of this continent, not only against Africa, but in a _more aggravated sense, against these southern regions_." "Almost all masters, in Virginia, assent to the proposition, that when slaves can be liberated without _danger to themselves_, and to their _own_ advantage, it ought to be done. If there are few who think otherwise in Virginia, I feel assured that _there are few such any where in the south_!" [See Dr. Reese's Letters to the Hon. William Jay, p. 50-53.] But if it be now asked why do they not liberate them, as they appear so anxious so to do? I reply that totally independent of the considerations above stated, the law of the land prohibits their so doing unless they give large security, or send them abroad. So that in fact the _Abolitionists themselves are now the actual slave-holders of thousands_! For by their calumniating and misrepresenting the motives of the advocates of the Colonization Society, they have prevented the influx of such means to that body as would have enabled it to relieve the slave-holder from that _bondage_ under which he labours, and thus free his slaves!