"The discipline of colored members is involved, tedious, vexatious, and _disgusting_" (p. 131). "_Excommunications and suspensions are of perpetual occurrence, for crimes shocking in character_, and of themselves sufficient to show the general state of morals; _such, for example, as adultery, fornication, theft, lying, drunkenness, quarrelling, and fighting_. The first three are their most common vices." Page 135: "They are, proverbially, _thieves_. They bear this character in Africa; they have borne it in all countries whither they have been carried; it has been the character of slaves in all ages, whatever their nation or color. They steal from each other, from their masters, from anybody.... Their veracity is nominal." Page 136: "The number, the variety, and ingenuity of falsehoods that can be told by them in a few brief moments, is most astonishing.... Servants, however, who will neither steal nor lie, may be found, and in no inconsiderable numbers." Other similar extracts, and touching other vices, might be given; but these seem amply sufficient to justify the general conclusion to which Mr. Jones arrives, p. 153, that "they are, intellectually and morally, a degraded people, the most so of any in the United States; and while, from their universal (?) profession of the Christian system, and their attendance upon its ordinances of worship, and the absence of all fixed forms of idolatry, they cannot _strictly_ be termed _heathen_, yet may they with propriety be termed _the heathen of our land_." In a sermon preached by him in Georgia, and published at Savannah in 1831, he calls them "_a nation of heathen in our very midst_" ("Jay's Letter," p. 11). Abundant confirmation of this conclusion exists. The Hon. Chas. C. Pinckney, in his "Address before the Agricultural Society of South Carolina" (Charleston, 1829, second edit. pp. 10-12; Jones's "Relig. Inst." p. 141), says, "There needs no stronger illustration of the doctrine of human depravity than the state of morals on plantations in general." "Who would credit it," asks the Committee of the Synod of South Carolina and Georgia in 1833, "that, in these years of revival and benevolent effort, in this Christian republic, there are _over two millions of human beings in the condition of heathen, and in some respects in a worse condition_? From long-continued and close observation, we believe that their moral and religious condition is such that they may justly be considered the _heathen_ of this Christian country." The Executive Committee of the Kentucky Union for the Moral and Religious Improvement of the Colored Race, in their "Circular to the Ministers of the Gospel in Kentucky," 1834 (Jones's "Relig. Inst." p. 143), say, "We desire not to represent that condition worse than it is. Doubtless, the light that shines around them, more or less illuminates their minds, and moralizes their characters. We hope and believe, that some of them, though poor in this world's goods, will be found rich in