Thy next complaint is against the _manner_ in which this benevolent EXPATRIATION Society was attacked. ‘The style in which the thing was done was at once offensive, inflammatory and exasperating,’--‘the feelings of many sincere, upright, and conscientious men were harrowed by a sense of the injustice, the indecorum and the unchristian treatment they received.’ But why, if _they_ were entirely innocent of the charges brought against Colonizationists? I have been in the habit, for several years past, of watching the workings of my own mind under true and false charges against myself; and my experience is, that the more clear I am of the charge, the less I care about it. If I really feel a sweet assurance that ‘my witness is in heaven--my record is on high,’ I then realize to its fullest extent that ‘it is a small thing to be judged of _man’s_ judgment,’ and I can bear _false_ charges unmoved; but true ones always nettle me, if I am unwilling to confess that ‘I have sinned;’ if I am, and yield to conviction, O then! how sweet the reward! Now I am very much afraid that these sincere, upright and conscientious Colonizationists are something like the _pious professors_ of the South, who are very angry because abolitionists say that all slaveholders are men-stealers. Both find it ‘hard to kick against the pricks’ of conviction, and both are unwilling to repent. A northern man remarked to a Virginia slaveholder last winter, ‘that as the South denied the charges brought against her by abolitionists, he could not understand why she was so enraged; for,’ continued he, ‘if you were to accuse us at the North of being sheep-stealers, we should not care about the charge--we should ridicule it.’ ‘O!’ said the Virginian with an oath, ‘what the abolitionists say about slaveholders is _too true_, and _that’s the reason_ we are vexed.’ Is not this the reason why our Colonization brethren and sisters are so angry? Is not what we say of them also _too true_? Let them examine these things with the bible and prayer, and settle this question between God and their own souls.