Although the simple object of this Society is the colonization of the _free people of colour_, who _voluntarily_ desire to go abroad, yet the members of it are decidedly opposed to slavery. And although _as a body_ they do not attempt to interfere with the rights of the slave-holder, yet as _individuals_ they have, and do exercise their utmost powers to diminish the evils of slavery--to provide, for the liberated person of colour, and to induce the slave-holder to emancipate his slaves; and all this consistent with the _legal_ interest of the owner, and consistent with the laws of God. Nothing could more satisfactorily prove the truth of these statements than the two following facts, 1st, that the actual PRO-SLAVERY party denounce the Colonization Society; and 2dly, that vast numbers of slaves have been emancipated through the influence of this Society. Dr. Reese says in his work before quoted, p. 41, "The society does not merely "_promise_" to promote Abolition, but exerts a mighty and _successful moral influence in actually abolishing slavery. And here I will not refer to the truth, which he who runs may read, that in Kentucky, Delaware, Maryland, and even Virginia_ itself, it is now openly avowed that '_colonization doctrines have sealed the death warrant of slavery!_' _Hence the pro-slavery party have declared that 'colonization and emancipation are synonymous terms_, and that the approach of _the former must be resisted_!' At a meeting of the same party _in Charleston_, the following toast was given, 'May the infernal regions soon be _colonized_ with the officers of the Colonization Society!' And while labouring with your misguided associates in the North, to hold up the Colonization Society, as hypocritical in its professions to exert a _moral influence_ towards the voluntary and utter abolition of slavery, you are leagued with 'all the advocates of the negro's perpetual bondage, who are the bitter uncompromising enemies of the society.' The Rev. J. M. Danforth states on his own personal knowledge, that in South Carolina, 'the society, and every thing connected with it, are held in _extreme abhorrence_ by our leading men, our politicians and wealthy planters. It is so _unpopular_ an institution, that very few name it publicly,--it is regarded here as a _northern scheme_ to _wrest_ from us our _slaves_.' In your anti-colonization efforts then, you are associated in action with the very men, whose character as slave-holders is so odious, that you deprecate their connexion with the colonization cause, as an unpardonable sin. Let me conjure you, sir, no longer to be 'jostled by the trafficker in human flesh,' in your crusade against the society or its benevolent objects, but abandon the 'bad eminence' to which your 'want of information' has unhappily raised you."