There is another point worthy of notice. Though the New England abolition States have offered equal political rights to the colored man, it has afforded him little temptation to emigrate into their bounds. On the contrary, several of these States have been diminishing their free colored population, for many years past, and none of them can have had accessions of colored immigrants; as is abundantly proved by the fact, that their additions, of this class of persons, have not exceeded the natural increase of the resident colored population.[71] Another fact is equally as instructive. It will be noted, that, in Ohio, the largest increase of the free colored population, is in the anti-abolition counties--the abolition counties, often, having increased very little, indeed, between 1840 and 1850. But the most curious fact is, that the largest majorities for the abolition candidate for governor, in 1855, were in the counties having the fewest colored people, while the largest majorities against him, were in those having the largest numbers of free negroes and mullatoes.[72] From these facts, both in regard to New England and Ohio, one of two conclusions may be logically deduced: Either the colored people find so little sympathy from the abolitionists, that they will not live among them; or else their presence, in any community, in large numbers, tends to cure the whites of all tendencies toward practical abolitionism! FOOTNOTES: [71] See Table IV, Appendix. [72] See Table V, Appendix. CHAPTER XVI. Disappointment of English and American Abolitionists--Their failure attributed to the inherent evils of Slavery--Their want of discrimination--The differences in the system in the British Colonies and in the United States--Colored people of United States vastly in advance of all others--Success of the Gospel among the Slaves--_Democratic Review_ on African civilization--Vexation of Abolitionists at their failure--Their apology not to be accepted--Liberia attests its falsity--The barrier to the colored man's elevation removable only by Colonization--Colored men begin to see it--Chambers, of Edinburgh--His testimony on the crushing effects of New England's treatment of colored people--Charges Abolitionists with insincerity--Approves Colonization--Abolition violence rebuked by an English clergyman.