Effects of opposition to Colonization on Liberia--Its effects on free colored people--Their social and moral condition--Abolition testimony on the subject--American Missionary Association--Its failure in Canada--Degradation of West India free colored people--American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society--Its testimony on the dismal condition of West India free negroes--London Times on same subject--Mr. Bigelow on same subject--Effect of results in West Indies on Emancipation--Opinion of Southern Planters--Economical failure of West India Emancipation--Ruinous to British Commerce--Similar results in Hayti--Extent of diminution of exports from West Indies resulting from Emancipation--Results favorable to American Planter--Moral condition of Hayti--Later facts in reference to the West Indies--Negro free labor a failure--Necessity of education to render freedom of value--Franklin's opinion confirmed--Colonization essential to promote Emancipation. We have noticed the social and moral condition of the free colored people, from the days of Franklin, to the projection of colonization. We have also glanced at the main facts in relation to the abolition warfare upon colonization, and its success in paralyzing the enterprise. This subject demands a more extended notice. The most serious injury from this hostility, sustained by the cause of colonization, was the prejudice created, in the minds of the more intelligent free colored men, against emigration to Liberia. The Colonization Society had expressed its belief in the natural equality of the blacks and whites; and that there were a sufficient number of educated, upright, free colored men, in the United States, to establish and sustain a Republic on the coast of Africa, "whose citizens, rising rapidly in the scale of existence, under the stimulants to noble effort by which they would be surrounded, might soon become equal to the people of Europe, or of European origin--so long their masters and oppressors." These were the sentiments of the first Report of the Colonization Society, and often repeated since. Its appeals were made to the moral and intelligent of the free colored people; and, with their co-operation, the success of its scheme was considered certain. But the very persons needed to lead the enterprise, were, mostly, persuaded to reject the proffered aid, and the society was left to prosecute its plans with such materials as offered. In consequence of this opposition, it was greatly embarrassed, and made less progress in its work of African redemption, than it must have done under other circumstances. Had three-fourths of its emigrants been the enlightened, free colored men of the country, a dozen Liberias might now gird the coast of Africa, where but one exists; and the slave