It is boldly asserted by some colonizationists, that '_the negroes are happier when kept in bondage_,' and that 'the condition of the great mass of emancipated Africans is one in comparison with which the condition of the slaves is _enviable_.' What is the inference? Why, either that slavery is not oppression--(another paradox)--or that real benevolence demands the return of the free people of color to their former state of servitude. Every kidnapper, therefore, is a true philanthropist! Our legislature should immediately offer a bounty for the body of every free colored person! The colored population of Massachusetts, at $200 for each man, woman and child, would bring at least _one million three hundred thousand dollars_. This sum would seasonably replenish our exhausted treasury. The whole free colored population of the United States, at the same price, (which is a low estimate,) would be worth _sixty-five millions of dollars_!! Think how many churches this would build, schools and colleges establish, beneficiaries educate, missionaries support, bibles and tracts circulate, railroads and canals complete, &c. &c. &c.!!! The Secretary of the Colonization Society assures us, (vide the African Repository, vol. v. p. 330,) that '_were the very spirit of angelic charity to pervade and fill the hearts of all the slaveholders in our land, it would by no means require that all the slaves should be instantaneously liberated_'!!--i. e. should the slaveholders become instantaneously metamorphosed into angels, they would still hold the rational creatures of God as their _property_, and yet commit no sin! Think, for one moment, of an angel in the capacity of a man-stealer--feeding his victims upon a peck of corn per week, or three bushels of corn and a few herrings every 'quarter-day,' as a compensation for their severe labor--flourishing a cowskin over their heads, and applying it frequently to their naked bodies! Think of him selling parents from children, and children from parents, at private sale or public auction!