2. _By retaining the emancipated slaves on the soil, we can at less expense of men and means educate and christianize them._ Were we to send them beyond the Mississippi or to Africa, it would take ten times the number of Missionaries and Teachers, that we are now supporting among the heathen, to save them from sinking into barbarism. But if they should be retained as free laborers in the service of their present masters, those masters would provide for their instruction, and without diverting means from other objects, the delightful spectacle would soon be witnessed of Schools and Churches springing up among them, through the voluntary efforts of the ministers and christians of the South. 3. _The labor of the Slaves is wanted on the plantations at the South._ To withdraw such an amount of labor would bankrupt the entire country. Nor could their places be supplied, except by the worst population of the old world; by men, whose religion, whose morals, whose politics are all, in the highest degree, hostile to our national interests. The emancipated Slaves, on the contrary, would be prejudiced in favor of the protestant faith, and prove the staunchest friends of our free institutions. 4. The _South will not consent to the colonization of the Slaves_. She is willing we should contribute to carry off the free people of color, “the nuisances,” “the disturbing force,” as she terms them; and also those Slaves, whom the more conscientious of her citizens, who dare not die Slave-holders, may emancipate for the purpose. But she is unwilling we should go a step further. She does not believe we can get the means of doing more. We think, if a place were provided in Africa, and we had the means necessary to transport every Slave there, and were to go and tell the south, about the sinfulness of holding Slaves, when they _can_ be colonized, and call upon her in _good earnest_, to give them up, she would denounce us as fanatics, and pass no more resolutions in favor of colonization. She is now at peace with it, because she does not fear it, and hopes to find it of use in repelling the abolitionists, in _letting off_, as by a safety valve, the pious feeling of her own citizens, and in expelling the free people of color. 5. The Slaves _are unwilling to leave the country_; and will never consent to do it, but on such a dread alternative as no christian people should impose. _First_ give them their liberty, put them under the protection of impartial law, and treat them with kindness, and then if they _ask_ our aid to remove their families to Africa, their determination to leave this country will evidently be spontaneous. 6. _It is better for them to remain in the employment of southern capitalists, who are able to pay them wages for their labor than to go out into the wilderness as paupers, where there is no capital, and the very necessaries of life, are to be created._ 7. _They cannot be colonized without an appalling expense of money, life and comfort._