While Slavery continues, what is the prospect of their becoming _better_ fitted for freedom? Where are the men and the means? Who will teach them? Who will support the teachers? The south cannot supply her _free_ population with instruction. Even with the aid of the north, she is very destitute of the means of religion. Nor would she be willing to adopt a general system of education for the improvement of the Slaves. Instead of giving her money to fit them for freedom, she would hunt from society any persons, who should seriously propose the measure. They know little of the spirit of Slavery, who imagine, that the south was disposed to prepare her Slaves for freedom, until the abolitionists roused her to resistance. Had she really wished to free her Slaves, she would have welcomed us as coadjutors, at least she would not have abandoned her own plan, because ours was offensive to her. She never intended to fit her Slaves for freedom. She does not intend it now. Her laws, in most of the States, are against it. The mass of her Slaves will, no doubt, be as unfit for freedom fifty years hence, if Slavery should continue so long, as they are to day. The British abolitionists were once deceived by this syren song of preparation, but now in allusion to the words of Paul; “the _glorious_ gospel of the blessed God;” they exclaim, THE GLORIOUS DOCTRINE OF IMMEDIATE EMANCIPATION! They found it the POWER OF GOD, to awaken the slumbering conscience of the nation; and the WISDOM OF GOD as a measure of relief to their Slaves. We shall find it so. Our opponents also object to _emancipation upon the soil_. Not all, but some of them, are in favor of Colonization as a remedy for Slavery, and others execrate us for our opposition to it as a scheme for benefiting Africa. We are especially averse to the former class. When men say, that the Slaves ought not to be freed, until they can be colonized, we _ought to make resistance_, for the following reasons: 1. We ought to _resist every wicked prejudice_; and they who object to emancipation on the soil, do so, in obedience to such a prejudice. They say the colored people can never rise in this country. They maintain that our aversion to the race is instinctive and natural; though we find no one averse to associating with them as _slaves_. The two races are certainly on very _intimate_ terms at the South. It is only when they come as _freemen_ between the wind and our nobility, that they taint the air. We, therefore, say, this prejudice is unnatural and sinful; and instead of fostering it, we ought to rebuke, and check it in ourselves and others. Some of us recollect the time, when as Colonizationists we wished to get rid of the colored people, and were indignant at them for being unwilling to leave the country. May we not repent of such a feeling and condemn in it others, without being hunted from society?