Failure of free colored people in attaining an equality with the whites--Their failure also in checking Slavery--Have they not aided in its extension? Yes--Facts in proof of this view--Abolitionists bad Philosophers--Colored men's influence destructive of their hopes--Summary manner in which England acts in their removal--Lord Mansfield's decision--Granville Sharp's labors and their results--Colored immigration into Canada--Information supplied by Major Lachlan--Demoralized condition of the blacks as indicated by the crimes they committed--Elgin Association--Public meeting protesting against its organization--Negro meeting at Toronto--Memorial of municipal council--Negro riot at St. Catherines--Col. Prince and the Negroes--Later cases of presentation by Grand Jury--Opinion of the Judge--Darkening prospects of the colored race--Views of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher--Their accuracy--The lesson they teach. BUT little progress, it will be seen, has been made, by the free colored people, toward an approximation of equality with the whites. Have they succeeded better in aiding in the abolition of slavery? They have not, as is abundantly demonstrated by the triumph of the institution. This is an important point for consideration, as the principal object influencing them to remain in the country, was, that they might assist in the liberation of their brethren from bondage. But their agency in the attempts made to abolish the institution having failed, a more important question arises, as to whether the free colored people, by refusing to emigrate, may not have contributed to the advancement of slavery? An affirmative answer must be given to this inquiry. Nor is a protracted discussion necessary to prove the assertion. One of the objections urged with the greatest force against colonization, is, its tendency, as is alleged, to increase the value of slaves by diminishing their numbers. "Jay's Inquiry," 1835, presents this objection at length; and the Report of the "Anti-Slavery Society of Canada," 1853, sums it up in a single proposition thus: "The first effect of beginning to reduce the number of slaves, by colonization, would be to increase the market value of those left behind, and thereby increase the difficulty of setting them free."